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+Planning/Higher Education

San Diego State University

SDSU Mission Valley Campus Plan

Vision


Carrier Johnson+ Culture was commissioned to prepare a Master Plan for the development of the proposed expansion of San Diego State University’s campus in Mission Valley. Our strategy for the proposed project embraces reintroducing the site’s natural elements with an “open space first” approach that includes 75 acres of community parks and eight acres of campus parks and green space adjacent to the San Diego River. The expansion would include a new 35,000 seat stadium for the Aztecs, demolition of the existing 70,000 seat Qualcomm Stadium, 1.6 million square feet of campus space, 4,600 residential units, 95,000 square feet of neighborhood retail, and two hotels with 450 guest rooms.

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The north-south Campus Mall organizes circulation through the heart of the SDSU Mission Valley Campus, connecting the River Park to the south with the energy of the new Snapdragon Stadium to the north. Interconnected paths for walking, hiking, and biking tie the development lands to the River Park and surrounding Mission Valley neighborhoods. A pedestrian-scale roundabout serves as the campus gateway with sculptural pieces and campus wayfinding. Functional landscape plays a major role for the successful placemaking as well as improvement to the local ecologies. Our team emphasized regreening the flood-prone area and restoring much of the site’s natural habitats that were lost to development over the past several decades.

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Project Meta


Client

San Diego State University

Size

1.6 Million SF campus; 80+ acres parks; 4,600 residential units; 95,000 SF retail; 2 hotels

Markets

Campus Plan; Mixed Use; Innovation District

Project Types

Civic, Higher Education, Mixed Use

Services

Landscape Architecture, Planning, Sustainability


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