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Sign of Tea Pavilion in front of the main building. San Diego opened its Panama–California Expositionin Balboa Park in 1915. Designed to call attention to San Diego and bolster the economy, the Exposition highlighted archaeological and anthropological displays as well as advertised the agricultural potential of the southwest.
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.
The San Diego Convention Center is the primary convention center of San Diego, California, United States. It is located in the Marina district in downtown San Diego, near the Gaslamp Quarter. The center is managed by the San Diego Convention Center Corporation, a public-benefit nonprofit corporation created by the City of San Diego.
San Jose Convention Center: San Jose: California: 165,000 sq ft (15,300 m 2) 550,000 sq ft (51,000 m 2) Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center: National Harbor: Maryland: 151,161 sq ft (14,043.3 m 2) 546,889 sq ft (50,807.7 m 2) Alliant Energy Center: Madison: Wisconsin: 495,000 sq ft (46,000 m 2) 522,900 sq ft (48,580 m 2)
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]
Hotel del Coronado, also known as The Del and Hotel Del, is a historic beachfront hotel in Coronado, California, just across San Diego Bay from San Diego.A rare surviving example of an American architectural genre—the wooden Victorian beach resort—it was designated a California Historical Landmark in 1970 [4] and a National Historic Landmark in 1977.
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San Diego Skyline in 2018. The city's tallest building, the pyramid-topped One America Plaza, is in center-right. San Diego, a major coastal city in Southern California, has over 200 high-rises mainly in the central business district of downtown San Diego. [1] In the city there are 42 buildings that stand taller than 300 feet (91 m).