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Inspiring, Inclusive, Imaginative, Impermanent, and Instagrammable
The Bay to Park Paseo project uses tactical urbanism and design thinking to prototype and experiment with ways to create clean, safe, interesting, and memorable pedestrian experiences to encourage walking through our downtown to Balboa Park or San Diego Bay.
The Bay to Park Paseo, created and presented by Pete Garcia and Beth Callender of the non-profit URBAN INTERVENTIONS, and Chloé Lauer, Urban Planner, is a fiscally sponsored project of the Downtown San Diego Public Spaces Foundation.
Designers:
Bayfront Park: Hilton San Diego Bayfront
Pedestrian Bridge: Safdie Rabines Architects, TY-Lin, UDG
Petco Park: Carrier Johnson + CULTURE & Ines Esnal, Artist
San Diego Central Library: Rob Wellington Quigley Architects & OurWorlds
Connector Blocks (Park between 10th & 11th, J & Island, and Island & Market): Studio E Architects
UC San Diego Park & Market: UC San Diego Design Lab Faculty & Students
NewSchool of Architecture & Design: Architects Mosher Drew; Mike Stepner & Frank Wolden
IDEA1: Miller Hull Partnership
Kilroy Realty property: Howard Blackson, Urban Designer & Armando de la Torre, Artist
Smart Corner + Trolley Stop: James Brown, Public Architecture & Arzu Ozkal, Artist
San Diego City College: URBAN INTERVENTIONS; Perry Vasquez, Artist, & UDG
San Diego High School: McCullough Landscape Architecture
Bridge over I-5: Balboa Park Committee of 100, URBAN INTERVENTIONS; Perry Vasquez, Artist, & UDG
Support:
Clean & Safe - Downtown San Diego Partnership, Clean & Safe
Metrics - Elaine Martel & E. Chloé Lauer
Documentation - Ian Patzke
Paseo Fiscal Sponsor - A fiscally sponsored project of the Downtown San Diego Public Spaces Foundation
Our first team meet-up (April 2023)
Hundreds joined for the opening Celebration Walk (April 2024)