Tag: Price Charities

  • City Heights Seniors Want Park Curfew After Alleged Crimes Leave Them Fearful

    City Heights Seniors Want Park Curfew After Alleged Crimes Leave Them Fearful

    Management and residents at a senior apartment facility say a public park next door is drawing criminal activity that’s affecting the building’s tenants.

  • San Diego’s Richest Poor Neighborhood, Two Decades Later

    City Heights could be called San Diego’s richest poor neighborhood. Since 2000, two foundations alone have invested more than a quarter billion dollars in the neighborhood. That’s about the same as what the city of Chula Vista spends on all of its residents annually. In this two-part video series, we ask what’s come of all…

  • City Heights Photo Exhibition To Be Unveiled at USC Urban Poverty Conference

    Multi-story apartment buildings are home to many residents in San Diego’s City Heights neighborhood. | Photo Credit: Matt Gainer By Marissa Cabrera, Maureen Cavanaugh and Peggy Pico Listen to the KPBS Midday Edition interview with photographer Matt Gainer Images of poverty in City Heights will be a focal point of an urban poverty conference taking…

  • Albertson’s Closes City Heights Store

    Photo Courtesy of Kimco By Megan Burks The Albertson’s in City Heights is one of 11 in southern California closing its doors next month. The departure comes two decades after Price Club founder Sol Price and CityLink developed the Albertson’s facility to stoke community revitalization. Price’s motivation then: the closure of a Von’s in the…

  • What’s Rising in City Heights

    The Copley Family YMCA will move from its 29,000-square-foot facility on Landis Street to a 53,000-square-foot facility on El Cajon Boulevard. | Photo Credit: Jamie Scott Lytle By Megan Burks and Bianca Bruno Former Mayor Bob Filner’s more wholesome legacy – shifting the focus from downtown development to the city’s deteriorating neighborhoods – has already…