By Delle Willett
Published in the San Diego Downtown News; May 7, 2021
Last year in March of 2020 I wrote about a work-in-progress East Village project called the 14th St. Greenway. (I called it the 14th St. Promenade.) And now, a year later, the City of San Diego unveiled the first of 11 blocks of the Greenway project, on 14th St. between G St. and Market St.
The 14th Street Greenway came to life about three years ago when the planning, design, and communications firm of MIG, under the leadership of MIG’s Rick Barrett, Principal-in-Charge and Project Manager, Kenya Huezo, worked for over a year on a Master Plan with Civic San Diego, primarily with Brad Richter, Kathleen Brand and Daniel Kay.
In the process of developing a plan, MIG landscape architects held a series of workshops to hear what the residents of the area wanted.
Said Barrett, “The one main thing that we heard from the public was, ‘Don’t make it a homogenous solution over the 11 blocks from C St. to National Ave. Make it feel like San Diego.’”
In the planning process, Barrett and Huezo, a landscape architect with MIG, along with Kathleen Brand, had numerous meetings with the Bob Sinclair Family.
For the MIG team, Barrett said, “The fun part was working with the amazing Sinclair Collection of industrial artifacts collected over the years by East Village visionary Bob Sinclair (‘an industrial archaeologist’) that depicts the rich history of the East Village industrial era and is the largest collection of memorabilia of old East Village.”
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