Every weekend, Kobey’s Swap Meet, an outdoor flea market, takes place in the Center’s parking lot. In addition to being the home of the San Diego Gulls, Valley View hosts a variety of concerts and other events throughout the year. Now, to build a new arena of the same height or higher, voters would have to sign off on the plan. The arena opened in 1966, before San Diego voters passed a restriction on how high buildings could be west of Interstate 5. Many of those leases, including the one for the Valley View Casino Center, are scheduled to expire in 2020, potentially making way for a city-led redevelopment effort.Īt the same time, someone is polling voters on what type of development they would support in the area. The city owns nearly 100 acres it leases to various businesses in the Midway District. If the city doesn’t extend their leases beyond 2020 - including the big one to operate the arena - the stage will be set for a major redevelopment of the entire area, perhaps orchestrated by one developer after a city bidding process. The city owns not only the old arena and parking lot but much of the land under businesses like Pier 1 Imports. That could open up nearly 43 acres of city-owned land for private development. That plan could increase the neighborhood’s population by nearly six times what it is now and increase jobs by 28 percent.Īt the same time, the city is not extending leases beyond May 2020 for some of the businesses that occupy city-owned land in the area, including AEG Management, which manages the Valley View Casino Center.

Valley View Casino Center / Photo by Adriana HeldizĬity officials are clearing the way for a massive redevelopment of the land around the Valley View Casino Center.Ĭity planners expect to finish a new community plan for the Midway District by this summer.

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