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10/13/11 – East Village plan biggest since Petco Park

10/13/11 – East Village plan biggest since Petco Park

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.

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10/13/11 – Proposed Upper East Village project described as ‘transformative’

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.”

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10/13/11 – Navarra Family Selects Master Developer to Transform a Five-Block Property in the Upper East Village into a Mixed-Use District Focused on Innovation, Design, Technology, Education and the Arts

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.

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10/3/11 – Designers are the New Drivers of Entrepreneurialism

10/3/11 – Designers are the New Drivers of Entrepreneurialism

Designers are merging their ways of thinking with startup culture. The result, writes Bruce Nussbaum, is greater innovation and astounding VC success rates.

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9/13/11 – Nurturing Arts Districts for the New Economy

ULI San Diego/Tijuana hosted a seminar earlier this month entitled “Powering Innovation Economies,” held in conjunction with Art San Diego 2011 and the San Diego Contemporary Art Fair, to emphasize their belief that “cities that harness the emerging dynamic of innovation into their economic development strategies will be the ones

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9/12/11 – IDEA District idea to kick off architectural series

9/12/11 – IDEA District idea to kick off architectural series

Developer David Malmuth will kick off this year’s Friends of San Diego Architecture lecture series Saturday with a pitch for his I.D.E.A. District — an area downtown where design-related firms would comprise a new business and jobs cluster.

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7/20/11 – IDEA District Plans Move Forward Downtown

Developers David Malmuth and Pete Garcia said they are two or three weeks away from unveiling a detailed vision plan for the 93-acre “I.D.E.A.” district in East Village. The acronym stands for innovation, design, education and the arts.

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5/23/11 – Turning the IDEA Into Reality

5/23/11 – Turning the IDEA Into Reality

Gary London, President of the London Group Realty Advisors, comments on the I.D.E.A. District in the San Diego Business Journal, calling it “the best plausible solution so far to refine a major swath of the East Village.”

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5/4/11 – IDEA District Unveiled Downtown

5/4/11 – IDEA District Unveiled Downtown

A design and educational district downtown could generate 10,000 jobs and $1.8 billion in new construction, two developers proposed Wednesday. David Malmuth and Pete Garcia unveiled their concept to about 50 civic leaders at downtown’s NewSchool of Architecture and Design.

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4/26/11 – The Power is in the IDEA

4/26/11 – The Power is in the IDEA

We have to deliberately plan for the future: a future that can capitalize on the marriage of design and technology.

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The I.D.E.A. District is a 93-acre sustainable, mixed-use development in Downtown San Diego’s East Village neighborhood that is driven by a design and technology jobs cluster. The District is a living laboratory that fosters creative and collaborative energy in innovation, design, education, and the arts.

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