San Diego Union-Tribune (Sunday)
DEVELOPMENT COULD TAKE CHULA VISTA TO NEW HEIGHTS
Proposed Bayview Point project would give city a skyline with luxury residential towers, hotel, restaurants
San Diego County’s second-largest city does not have a skyline. That could change with a proposed, mixed-use development that would complement the forthcoming billion-dollar bayfront project, developers say.
Mountainwest Real Estate affiliate Bayview Point, LLC is calling it Bayview Point.
The $900 million development proposes to transform a 10-acre site between 707 F Street and 750 E Street into a “mixed-use mobility hub” where people can live, work and play within walking or bus-riding distance.
A proposal has been in the works for years and stalled because of the pandemic, but negotiations between Bayview, Chula Vista and San Diego Metropolitan Transit System are now under way.
The site is comprised of 4 acres of San Diego Metropolitan Transit System property on E Street and 6 acres of city-owned land on F Street. MTS has its E Street Transit Center that provides ancillary support for the UC San Diego Blue Line Trolley, 267 parking spaces and bus transfer terminals. The sole business in the area is the Cool Down Coffee shop. For more than 20 years, Chula Vista has leased its side to organizations for construction storage equipment, sand and gravel operations and other distribution services. Until 1999, the city had its Public Works Corporation Yard there. Together, the parcels make up one full city block.
Bayview Point would occupy the E Street side with a four-story medical center, retail and more than 260 affordable housing units. The F Street area would include two luxury residential towers of up to 22 stories and about 500 units, collectively. There would also be a fitness center and spa. A 24-story, five-star hotel with about 400 rooms and condos, a restaurant, a roof deck and meeting spaces are also proposed on this side.
Just west of the site and over Interstate 5 is where the 22-story, 1,600-room Gaylord Resort and Convention Center is being built. Together, these projects would rise higher than any other building in Chula Vista, followed by the 16story Community Congregational Tower on Third Avenue and F