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This table includes buildings in the Gaslamp Quarter Historic District in San Diego, California.The order of entries in the table is taken from a brochure printed by the Gaslamp Quarter Historical Foundation titled Architectural Guide and Walking Tour Map. [1]
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).
1867: Real estate developer Alonzo Horton arrived in San Diego and purchased 800 acres (3.2 km 2) of land in New Town for $265. Major development began in the Gaslamp Quarter. [8] 1880s to 1916: Known as the Stingaree, the area was a working class area, home to San Diego's first Chinatown, "Soapbox Row" and many saloons, gambling halls, and ...
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]
A storefront in Seaport Village, with a downtown hotel in the background 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.
655 West Broadway is the 13th-tallest building in San Diego, California, and is a prominent fixture in San Diego's skyline. Tied with Pinnacle Marina Tower , it has a height of 412 feet (126 m). It is located at 655 West Broadway in the Marina district of downtown San Diego . 655 West Broadway is a 23-story building that uses the postmodern ...
The 13-acre (5.3 ha) complex includes 13 contributing buildings and one contributing structure. Most of the structures were built for San Diego's Panama–California Exposition of 1915–16 and were refurbished and re-used for the California Pacific International Exposition of 1935–36.
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.