Ballpark Village: Park 12

Vision

Situated in San Diego’s Sport and Entertainment District, the Ballpark Village development offers locational advantages such as proximity Petco Park, the trolley transfer station, and the New Central Library. Ballpark Village was to be the final leg of the 100-year-old plan to link Balboa Park through Downtown San Diego to the Bay. Within the framework of a previously approved Master Plan, Carrier Johnson + Culture was tasked to progress the vision of creating a lively neighborhood within a neighborhood. The development sits on a 3.5-acre site, previously home to a parking lot, divided into three sub-parcels.

The driving design factor was the desire to create connections across the site and to the surrounding blocks. The site master plan, formerly completed by Carrier Johnson + Culture, was to be bisected by pedestrian thoroughfares inspired by New York City’s High Line with an entrance plaza surrounded by retail at the terminus of 10th Avenue. These connections would link multiple six- to seven-story podiums on each of the sub-parcels and an iconic tower strategically placed to preserve daylight access to the Central Library courtyard and prevent glare on Petco Park’s baseball field.