San Diego City Council approves East Village park with an $80 million price tag, 16 years after the original design.
After years of delays, the project was approved by the San Diego City Council in December 2019, estimated then to cost a little more than $52 million and expected to include a 14,000-square-foot two-story recreation and community center, a playground with splash pad, off-leash dog parks and a passive game/reading area.
City council members though, this month OK'd an additional $27.3 million for the budget, due to increased building costs, etc., bringing the project total to a near $80 million price tag. That amount also factors in what the city will pay to relocate two homes currently on F Street, designated by the city as historic structures.
Several of the original planned amenities for the park — the west park's café building and the east park's Bark Bar, as well as a decorative shade structure over the performance pavilion — were redlined, however, in the final proposal, and the decorative fencing that was proposed has now, sadly, been downgraded to chain link. The downgrades save the city more than $2.5 million
The approval of the additional funds effectively serves as the city's green light for the project; the city's non-profit independent planning agency, Civic San Diego, solicited bids for construction on Phase 1 of the project in the summer of 2021. The project is expected to take form in multiple phases, with construction on Phase 1 potentially kicking off in August 2022, as long as the project is awarded by the end of the month.
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