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The urbanization of Kearny Mesa began in 1937 with Gibbs Airfield, now the small airfield Montgomery Field named after pioneer glider pilot John J. Montgomery. [5] In 1948, the City of San Diego acquired the airfield and 1,400 acres (6 km 2) of surrounding property as a possible replacement site for San Diego International Airport.
The following is a list of neighborhoods and communities located in the city of San Diego. The City of San Diego Planning Department officially lists 52 Community Planning Areas within the city, [ 1 ] many of which consist of multiple different neighborhoods.
State Route 163 (SR 163), or the Cabrillo Freeway, is a state highway in San Diego, California.The 11.088-mile (17.844 km) stretch of the former US 395 freeway runs from downtown San Diego just south of an interchange with Interstate 5 (I-5), extending north through historic Balboa Park and various neighborhoods of San Diego to an interchange with I-15 in the neighborhood of Miramar.
After passing the Miramar Recycling Center and an interchange with Convoy Street, SR 52 intersects SR 163, a freeway heading towards downtown San Diego. [3] SR 52 intersects Kearny Villa Road before an interchange with I-15. A collector/distributor road serves these three interchanges. [3]
In the 1860s, the first Chinese people moved to the downtown area. [19] In the 1870s, the Chinese were the primary fishermen in the area. [20] Beginning in the 1880s, a large number of Chinese began to move to San Diego, establishing a concentration; with up to 200 Chinese making up a minority of the 8,600 who lived in all of San Diego. [21]
Sherman Heights takes its name from its original developer and later San Diego mayor Matthew Sherman, who purchased the land just east of downtown San Diego in 1867. [3] Villa Montezuma , a large Victorian home built for musician and spiritualist Jesse Shepard in 1887, has been operated as a house museum, and is owned by the City of San Diego.
San Diego Freeway from downtown San Diego to the El Toro Y; Santa Ana Freeway from the El Toro Y to the East L.A. Interchange; Golden State Freeway from the East L.A. Interchange to Wheeler Ridge; Interstate 8 west terminus in Ocean Beach in San Diego, eastbound to the Arizona State Line towards Yuma. Ocean Beach Freeway from Ocean Beach to Old ...
Linda Vista (Spanish for "Pretty View") [1] is a community in San Diego, California, United States. Located east of Mission Bay, north of Mission Valley, and south-east of Tecolote Canyon, it lies on a mesa overlooking Mission Valley to the south and Mission Bay and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is home to the University of San Diego.