IDEA Partners featured in the San Diego Business Journal: Pete Garcia and partner David Malmuth, of IDEA Partners, are part of a growing trend toward mixed-use developments in urban areas. Idea Partners has plans to develop the upper East Village in downtown San Diego into a design district. Read more
The IDEA Partners have released the full 67-page Vision Document to the public! To view the complete document in PDF format, click here.
Negotiations are ongoing with the Navarra family, owners of Jerome’s Furniture, to develop a five-block property downtown into what will eventually become the IDEA District. Download the article here. (PDF)
Urbanist Guide interviews David Malmuth and Pete Garcia for its “Besides the Weather” column. Check it out here.
Art and design as… job creators? Yes, and the concept is key to the future success of downtown San Diego according to developers David Malmuth and Pete Garcia.
SAN DIEGO – The Navarra Family, owner of Jerome’s Furniture, has named Lankford & Associates, Portman Holdings and Phelps Development as master developers of a five-block property dubbed the I.D.E.A. (Innovation, Design, Education and Art) District that includes a four-and-a-half-acre park and several other blocks in Upper East Village of San Diego. The Navarra Upper East Village
The economy permitting, efforts to turn San Diego’s Upper East Village into a design-focused business district, potentially bringing thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in new construction to the downtown neighborhood, could be moving from visioning to development in coming months.
Manhattan has its Upper East Side and downtown San Diego could boast an “Upper East Village,” if a new development team succeeds in carrying out an ambitious plan, being announced Thursday, that would be downtown’s biggest undertaking since Petco Park.
A massive project called Upper East Village could transform part of downtown San Diego, and developers say financing may not be “a bridge too far.”
SAN DIEGO – The Navarra family, owners of Jerome’s Furniture, has selected Lankford & Associates, Portman Holdings, and Phelps Development (who have formed a limited liability company called LPP) to be the Master Developer of its five-block property as the catalyst for a larger transformational project area, dubbed the I.D.E.A.
Partners in the I.D.E.A. District:
Pete Garcia and David Malmuth
