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This year, as San Diego started to emerge from its COVID-19 cave with the introduction of vaccines and return to in-person events, La Jollans were hard at work behind the scenes to make changes for the community as it transitions to its next (hopefully post-COVID) stage. ....
Print A lawsuit brought by the La Jolla Shores Association and the homeowners association of the nearby Blackhorse Farms gated community against UC San Diego over its Theatre District Living and Learning Neighborhood project is pressing forward, with a schedule of proposed dates submitted July 6. TDLLN, which began construction in January near La Jolla Village Drive and North Torrey Pines Road, is planned to include five buildings ranging from nine to 21 stories tall. It is designed to house 2,000 students and includes a conference center, hotel rooms, classrooms and retail. The lawsuit, filed in October, contends that the project violates the California Environmental Quality Act through impacts on endangered species, traffic, greenhouse gases and wastewater. ....
North Torrey Pines Living and Learning Neighborhood Springs to Life Students in the center of the campus’s first living and learning neighborhood. Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Communications. After welcoming students to the west side residential areas in the fall, the east side of North Torrey Pines Living and Learning Neighborhood is starting to spring to life. This quarter, the UC San Diego Craft Center welcomed the campus community to meet its new instructors, a three-story HDH dining area with five restaurants and a market brought flavors from across the globe, Sixth College administration and two academic divisions settled into their new spaces and the Stuart Collection’s “Same Old Paradise” was installed in its home in the heart of the neighborhood all of which contributed to making the vision of the university’s first living and learning neighborhood a reality. ....
Print Hot on the heels of UC San Diego’s Theatre District Living and Learning Neighborhood breaking ground this month, the La Jolla university is already looking at another development project. During the La Jolla Community Planning Association’s Jan. 7 meeting online, UCSD community liaison Anu Delouri introduced during her monthly report a proposed 110,000-square-foot, seven-story building for a site on the southwest corner of Villa La Jolla Drive and La Jolla Village Drive where Rock Bottom Brewery once operated. Delouri said the campus is pursuing what it calls the La Jolla Innovation Center, which would house programs in the UCSD School of Medicine, UCSD Health, Academic Affairs and UCSD Extension. The development would include offices, education space, a ground-floor cafe and parking. ....
But these are nerve-wracking times in higher education, and not just because of the coronavirus. Due to changing demographics, many colleges and universities especially small, private, liberal arts schools have struggled to boost or maintain enrollment as the number of high school graduates nationwide has declined. UCSD, a large public research school, hasn’t had that problem. That’s partly due to its elite status, but it also stems from the university’s decision to heavily recruit high-tuition international students who could help the campus offset deep cuts in state funding. In 2008, UCSD had 27,520 students, 1,621 (or 6 percent) of whom came from other countries. ....