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Print Allegro, a new modern Italian restaurant from the San Diego Dining Group, plans to open its doors on Valentine’s Day in Little Italy. Allegro takes over the space at 1536 India St. formerly occupied by Indigo Grill, which closed last year after a 20-year run. Allegro joins San Diego Dining Group’s three Gaslamp Quarter restaurants: Greystone Steakhouse, Osetra and Osteria Panevino. Allegro’s menu includes hot and cold appetizers of shellfish and charcuterie, housemade pastas, steaks, salads, sides, flatbreads and plated entrees. The menu, developed by Sicilian-born chef Marco Provino, will serve coastal cuisine with an Italian flair. The restaurant will have an expansive patio decorated with lemon trees, custom-made marble tables with fire pits in the center and vintage doors. For details, visit San Diego Dining Group on Facebook. ....
VISTA After decades of planning, six years of construction and $30 million in spending, Vista’s long-awaited Paseo Santa Fe improvement project is finally complete. The 0.8-mile stretch of South Santa Fe Avenue between Vista Village and Civic Center drives is the latest piece in a downtown revitalization project that has been under way for more than 20 years. For the record: 9:26 AM, Jan. 31, 2021This story has been updated to update the cost of the project and correct the fact that Jay Wentz is the developer of The Rylan apartments, not Terrace Lofts apartments Since the Paseo project kicked off in May 2014, the corridor has undergone a massive renovation that included the undergrounding of utility lines, narrowing of the road from four lanes to two, two new roundabout traffic circles, new sidewalks, streetlights and landscaping, a veterans memorial park, public art pieces and two arched “Vista” monument signs at either end of the Paseo roadway ar ....