Tag: Redevelopment

  • Lot on El Cajon Boulevard May Soon Be Vacant No More

    Beryl Forman and Tootie Thomas discuss plans for an empty lot along El Cajon Boulevard in City Heights, April 14, 2016. By Megan Burks The state’s redevelopment program to invest in blighted communities left behind a lot of successes when it dissolved in 2012. But it also left behind a lot of empty lots —…

  • Emerald Wants Zombie Redevelopment Dollars for City Heights

    By Andrew Keatts Councilman David Alvarez calls it the Catch-22 of San Diego development. Where development is economically viable, it isn’t politically viable. And where it’s politically viable, it isn’t economically viable. In the end, you’ve got developers desperate to build in areas that don’t want it, and areas desperate for development that developers won’t…

  • Teen Producers: The Changing Face of El Cajon Boulevard

    Teen Producers Project New businesses bring new people and new people transform a neighborhood. That’s the premise behind the latest video by the Teen Producers, a a group of youth filmmakers at the Media Arts Center. Their piece centers on El Cajon Boulevard near 30th Street in North Park, which, for the past couple decades,…

  • A Ballroom Stuck in Limbo

    The Silverado Ballroom restoration is stuck in limbo as San Diego sniffs out redevelopment scraps. | Video Credit: Brian Myers By Brian Myers and Megan Burks Situated on one of City Heights’ busiest street corners, University and Euclid avenues, the Silverado Ballroom is easy to miss. Its street level windows advertise discount furniture like many…

  • Tweet City Heights: Nearly 1 in 6 Families Had Trouble Getting Food Last Year

    By Megan Burks Nearly 1 in 6 U.S. Households Had Trouble Getting Food Last Year A report out by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found 14.9 percent, or 17.9 million, households had difficulty putting food on the table at least once last year because of limited resources. The figure is a slight increase over 2010,…