Overview

Over the past 30 years, the redevelopment of downtown San Diego has had a dramatic impact on its economy and quality of life. The Navy Broadway Complex project is one of the most exciting redevelopment opportunities in downtown. It anchors the $230 million North Embarcadero Visionary Plan to rebuild the public space from the airport to Seaport Village, creating a grand esplanade and adding more than 12 acres of new waterfront plazas and park lands. Other projects in the area will also contribute open space that will eventually give the public at least 28 acres on and near the Bay.

The City of San Diego and the Department of the Navy have a long history of cooperation. Much of the downtown waterfront was formerly Navy property, which has been adaptively reused to benefit both the Navy and the City. The transfer of Navy Field on the South Embarcadero area enabled the Navy to expand Naval Station San Diego, adding new piers and training facilities. The City was able to use that land for important public and private developments, including the state-of-the-art San Diego Convention Center, waterfront hotels and public parks. Most recently, the conveyance of the Navy Pier from the Navy to the Port of San Diego assisted in establishing the USS Midway Naval Museum, which in its first year attracted more than one million visitors.
Navy Broadway Complex aerial photo
Photography courtesy of U.S. Navy.

An overview of the Navy Broad Complex and the North Embarcadero Visionary Plan:
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