How the Mid City Police Station
and Gymnasium Came to Be thanks to the Price Charities,


http://www.pricecharities.com/City-Heights-Initiative/police-station-and-urba...



ADDRESS IS

4302 Landis Street
San Diego, CA 92105-2612


It is located one block south of
Wightman at Fairmont St.


Sol Price became interested in City Heights as a result of a newspaper article about a Vons grocery store closing in the community. Sol and former City Councilman William Jones had been working together to open a retail store in an inner city neighborhood in San Diego. Believing that the Vons store might be a good site, they soon learned that the City of San Diego had already secured the site for a new police substation. Sol Price made an agreement with the City whereby he would loan the City the money for the building construction if the City would agree to repay the loan in a timely manner and design into the building a gymnasium for police employees and the public to use, public meeting rooms and windows on the street side of the substation. The purpose of these facility additions was to make the substation as community friendly as possible. The City agreed and the project was completed less than two years later.

As part of the negotiations for the financing of the police substation, the City of San Diego, Sol Price and the Weingart Foundation entered into a development agreement to revitalize a sizeable piece of property east of the police substation. Known as the Urban Village, the redevelopment project was completed in 1996. Improvements included a library, a theatre, park area and playground, a recreation center, tennis courts and a swimming pool, a preschool and a City service center.

Sol Price and William Jones decided that Price Charities would focus on non profit work in City Heights while William Jones would focus on for profit development which subsequently resulted in the opening of an Albertsons grocery store community shopping center across the street from the Urban Village.

The Urban Village and shopping center represented tangible and highly visible improvements to the community creating confidence and hope for the future.

For further information contact Matthew Hervey at mhervey@pricecharities.org.


 

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