A California Supreme Court decision late last year hammered the final nail into redevelopment’s coffin. Redevelopment workers must pack up their desks by Feb. 1 and hand over remaining approved projects to the city to manage.
In City Heights, those projects include $220 million worth of new street lights, sidewalk repairs and new mixed-used developments. But some have doubted those plans will hold, and there’s still confusion about how things like schools and affordable housing will fare in the fallout.
Below, Speak City Heights partner voiceofsandiego.org and NBC 7 San Diego start at the beginning, tracing redevelopment from its birth to its demise.