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Seaport Village is a waterfront shopping and dining complex adjacent to San Diego Bay in downtown San Diego, California. The complex houses more than 70 shops, galleries, and eateries on 90,000 square feet (8,000 m 2) of waterfront property.
It also included public art displays, tree groves and open spaces, while continuing San Diego's tradition of having a working waterfront, according to Port plans. [2] The proposed redevelopment area was bordered by Market Street to the south (Marina district), Laurel Street to the north (Little Italy), and the railroad tracks to the east.
Planned development for the area included 3 million square feet of office and studio space, 600,000 square feet of commercial retail and restaurants, and 2,200 new apartments. The main focus of the project revolved around innovating and creating new tech jobs for the area while being a cutting-edge urban development for the workforce of ...
The urban area of San Diego had a total population of 2,956,746, making it the third-largest in the state, after those of Los Angeles and San Francisco. The 2010 population represented an increase of just under 7% from the 1,223,400 people reported in 2000. [110] The population density was 3,771.9 inhabitants per square mile (1,456.3/km 2).
Marina is bordered to the north by Columbia, bordered to east/southeast by the Gaslamp Quarter, and is bordered to the southwest by the San Diego Marina. [2] Marina previously comprised various warehouses and vacant lots, [3] now it houses mid-rise and high-rise hotels, apartments, condominiums, medical offices and retail.
One America Plaza is the tallest building in San Diego, California, and a prominent fixture in the waterfront district of the downtown San Diego skyline.The 34-story, 500 ft (150 m), 623,000 sq ft (57,900 m 2), [5] obelisk-shaped tower was designed by Helmut Jahn of Murphy/Jahn Architects and KMA Architecture.
As a result, Mission Beach is the most densely developed residential community in San Diego with a land use designation across the majority of its land area of 36 dwelling units per acre. It also has the smallest lots in the city, ranging from 1,250 square feet (116 m 2 ) to 2,400 square feet (220 m 2 ).
During the 1820s the river began to empty primarily into San Diego Bay, causing worries that the harbor might silt up. In 1852 the United States Army Corps of Engineers constructed a dike along the south side of the river to prevent water from flowing into San Diego Bay. This made "False Bay" an estuary outlet for the San Diego River drainage ...