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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.
UC San Diego is pushing through another mega-project. The local community did not get anything out of the North Torrey Pines Living and Learning Neighborhood. It would only be fitting that the community should be able to realize some benefit from the gracious UC regents with this next massive project, dubbed the Theatre District Living and Learning Neighborhood.
Connection to the city utilities may be the only hurdle that could slow this project at this point. Asking the city of San Diego to join in the lawsuit against the regents and this project could be necessary to get the regents’ attention.
Despite an ongoing lawsuit against the project, UC San Diego plans to begin construction on its Theatre District Living and Learning Neighborhood on Monday, Jan. 4, according to a notice dated Dec. 22 from the office of Eric Smith, associate vice chancellor of capital program management.
The development is planned to open in fall 2023 near La Jolla Village Drive and North Torrey Pines Road. It includes five buildings ranging from nine to 21 stories tall and is designed to house 2,000 students. It also includes a conference center, hotel rooms, classrooms, retail and a 1,200-space parking garage underneath.
“Design features include pedestrian and bicycle improvements, a significant amount of open space and outdoor gathering areas,” the notice states.