San Diego City Council Advances Redevelopment of 101 Ash Street Building

San Diego selects team to convert 101 Ash St. into low-income housing

A development team led by two women, including one local land-use official, bested a decades-old affordable housing firm in the behind-the-scenes real estate competition to convert San Diego’s 101 Ash St. office tower into hundreds of subsidized apartments. On Monday, San Diego City Councilmembers voted in closed session to select Create Dev LLC and MRK Partners Inc. to remake the asbestos-ridden building and civic blunder into a downtown housin…

San Diego City Council Advances Redevelopment of 101 Ash Street Building

101 Ash St. in downtown San Diego. (Photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Diego) San Diego’s long-troubled 101 Ash Street downtown office building may soon get a new lease on life as housing for low-income families. The San Diego City Council met in a closed session Monday to review competing redevelopment proposals for the blighted building. The proposals came from two teams: one led by Affirmed Housing and another by Create Dev LLC and MRK Partner…

Company Led by Head of San Diego Planning Commission Selected for Redo of 101 Ash Street

On Monday, January 27, the San Diego City Council voted in closed session to select a development team to convert the infamous 101 Ash St. office tower into what's being proposed as "hundreds of subsidized apartments." The companies Create Dev LLC and MRK Partners Inc. were chosen to redo the asbestos-ridden building and civic blunder…