{"id":314594,"date":"2022-08-26T08:46:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T15:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/?p=314594"},"modified":"2022-08-25T11:52:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T18:52:45","slug":"wheels-in-motion-for-proposed-liberty-station-bike-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wheels-in-motion-for-proposed-liberty-station-bike-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheels in motion for proposed Liberty Station Bike Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fundraising has officially begun by proponents of a bold plan to transform an abandoned Liberty Station building into a regional bicycling hub.<\/p>\n

A recent breakfast promoting the cycling plan held by bicycling enthusiast and NBA star Bill Walton at his home was attended by District 2 Councilmember Dr. Jennifer Campbell and ex-County supervisor Greg Cox.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a great success,\u201d said cycling project proponent Richard G. Opper of the bicycling hub event noting, \u201cIt was held to raise funds to pay for the design and architectural work that is now beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n

The proposed Liberty Station Bike Center, otherwise known as the Liberty Bike Commons, is on dedicated City parklands in Building 191. The property, once planned for demolition, straddles a major spur on the San Diego bike path system. Its 20-by-80 foot structure was the 191st building constructed at the former Naval Training Center.<\/p>\n

Preliminary redesign work on Building 191 is being performed by local architect Chris Bitter of OBR Architecture, who has worked on several other Liberty Station projects. The abandoned Building 191 building is laid out as a long, thin rectangle.
\nThe possibility of re-purposing Building 191 was the brainchild of Opper, an environmental attorney and former chairman of the NTC Foundation, in collaboration with prominent San Diego graphic designer, sculptor, and cycling enthusiast Ron Miriello.<\/p>\n

The genesis of the project came when the pair were out on a bike ride. Miriello commented that he wished he had somewhere to exhibit 20 classic Italian bicycle frames. Opper replied he knew of an empty Liberty Station building. And the drive to create a regional cycling hub was on.
\nOpper said planning for the cycling project dates back to 2018. \u201cIt has been a really tough time to try funding a project like this,\u201d he admitted adding, \u201cCOVID has really been a daunting challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"
A recent breakfast fundraiser for the proposed bicycling center in Liberty Station was held by bicycling enthusiast and NBA star Bill Walton at his home.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the meantime, Opper said groundwork is being laid for the project to proceed once construction funding has been found. \u201cWe got the building cleaned out,\u201d he said, adding they\u2019ve worked with both the local and federal government to get the permitting required to rehabilitate the former Navy building.<\/p>\n

Of the prospective regional cycling center, Opper said, \u201cOur goal is to promote bicycling and get community input into what goes into the center.\u201d<\/p>\n

Opper said converting Building 191\u2019s approximately 6,000 square feet at a cost of about $300 a square foot translates into \u201caround $2 million, plus other costs such as getting City permitting. The plans we\u2019re developing now will really help focus on what the real costs are, and how long it (building conversion) is going to take.\u201d<\/p>\n

Added Opper: \u201cIt\u2019s not likely to be a very long process for permitting a single-story in a long narrow building. I don\u2019t think it will take more than an estimated nine months for construction from beginning to end, maybe a little longer.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fundraising has officially begun by proponents of a bold plan to transform an abandoned Liberty Station building into a regional bicycling hub. A recent breakfast promoting the cycling plan held by bicycling enthusiast and NBA star Bill Walton at his home was attended by District 2 Councilmember Dr. Jennifer Campbell and ex-County supervisor Greg Cox. […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":840,"featured_media":314595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11561","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Fundraising has officially begun by proponents of a bold plan to transform an abandoned Liberty Station building into a regional bicycling hub.","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"3","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11551,11561],"tags":[13966,13965,12752,13967],"class_list":["post-314594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-peninsula-beacon","tag-bill-walton","tag-liberty-bike-commons","tag-liberty-station","tag-ntc-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/840"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}