North Bay Community Planning Group (NBCPG) members said they were encouraged by news that progress is being made on renewing or extending leases on several city-owned properties east of the sports arena.
\nThe city owns not only the sports arena property, but also the properties on either side of it, including the commercial strip where Red Lobster and Phil\u2019s BBQ are, the commercial area where SOMA nightclub and Kobey\u2019s Swap Meet\u2019s corporate offices are, down to Dixieline and Pier One Imports. The long-vacant, deteriorating Black Angus restaurant site is also east of the sports arena.
\nCommunity planners were told that the Valley View Casino Center\u2019s (formerly the San Diego Sports Arena) lease is up in 2020 and that Phil\u2019s BBQ\u2019s lease runs out in 2018. It was pointed out that most other area leaseholders are month-to month, a situation that has caused consternation among merchants because of uncertainty over their future. NBCPG chairwoman Melanie Nickel said it\u2019s paramount that the city begin renegotiating leases with surrounding leaseholders because “we don\u2019t want derelict properties. We want coordination so all the leases come up at once, not this scattershot approach.”
\nJohn Ly of District 2 City Councilman Kevin Faulconer\u2019s office, whose district includes the sports arena area, said it\u2019s been the policy of the city\u2019s Real Estate Assets Department to put a “hold on these properties because they want to put together a master plan.”
\nIf the NBCPG wishes, Ly said Faulconer will work with city real estate assets to “see things (leases) get extended so we don\u2019t have a ghost town.”
\nChuck Pretto of Kobey\u2019s Swap Meet said he signed a new lease recently to move out of his existing company headquarters at 3350 Sports Arena Blvd., Suite K.
\n“We\u2019re moving over near Phil\u2019s BBQ in the Sports Arena Villa, taking the old city regulations office suite,” Pretto said.
\nDixieline Lumber Co., at 3250 Sports Arena Blvd., is in the process of remodeling its existing site with the expectation that its current lease \u2014 set to expire in a matter of months \u2014 will be renewed.
\nIn other matters, Tait Galloway from the former city Planning Department that has now been renamed the Neighborhood Restoration Department, also has a new director. Urban planner Bill Fulton, a former mayor in Ventura, will assume the new role.
\nGalloway said he\u2019s been working on North Bay\u2019s community plan update. “We\u2019ll have a working draft to share with the planning group at your next meeting [in September],” said Galloway.
\nNickel said the group\u2019s entire meeting on Sept. 18 will be devoted to the community plan update.\u00a0
\nThe Midway\/Pacific Highway Corridor Community is made up of the central Midway area and the narrow, linear-shaped Pacific Highway Corridor. It\u00a0has an urbanized commercial core containing numerous shopping centers and institutional facilities.\u00a0There are a few multi-family residential complexes located in the western portion of the community adjacent to Point Loma. The planning area is generally characterized by a variety of commercial retail activities and wide, multi-directional traffic intersections.
\nThe NBCPG meets the third Wednesday of each month at 3 p.m. at San Diego Community College\u2019s West City Campus, 3249 Forham St., in Room 208.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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