New Proposal for San Diego's Seaport Village Faces Rough Sailing

So what’s the latest on one of San Diego’s favorite places to go for those who live here and for those who visit here?

That place is Seaport Village and there was a plan going back several years for a new project there that was scrubbed.  But with the news of a big change coming, some of the shops shut down and business fell off some.  Since it opened in 1980, it has been a favorite spot, for shopping, food, fun, sidewalk artists and its amazing views of the big Bay.

And now here we are in 2022, there is a new proposal for what to do at Seaport Village. That proposal is called Seaport San Diego, a similar name but different and lots of questions were raised about it this week at a meeting of Port of San Diego commissioners.

As reporter Jennifer Van Grove put it in the San Diego Union Tribune, “In spite of more than five years of edits, the $3.5 billion mega project that would replace Seaport Village and downtown’s broader Central Embarcadero district with hotels, attractions and office space appears to be a long way from approval.”

Interestingly Seaport Village was built on landfill over what was called Punta de los Muertos, or Point of the Dead, where the Spanish expedition of 1782 buried those who had died of scurvy. So, guess it shouldn’t be a surprise that another proposal for what to do with it may be dead before it sees life.

And San Diego has a history of not getting big projects approved, from convention centers to ballparks to football stadiums to sports arenas. The proposal to re-make Seaport Village is a big project and could be too big for it to get done.

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