Downtown SD’s First Creative Office Conversion Project

Navarra Properties has announced plans to redevelop a 2.5-acre warehouse site in Downtown San Diego’s East Village. The developer will transform the site into a 100,000-square-foot creative office warehouse and, in phase two, a 450,000-square-foot 17-story conventional office building and will rename the campus [email protected]. District. This is the first creative office warehouse conversion in the East Village market, which has recently seen a spurt of investment activity.

“SuperBlock is a multi-phase development aimed at attracting a large tech user that requires large, flexible floor-plates in a cool building, combined with adjacent space for expansion,” Mark Navarra, president of Navarra Properties, tells GlobeSt.com. “This project will become the center of a thriving innovation ecosystem already starting to emerge in I.D.E.A. District.”

The East Village is the latest San Diego submarket to benefit from the development activity in Downtown San Diego. The IDEA District is central to the development activity. Navarra says that the market has seen strong demand for creative office space and there is a limited supply in this category. “There has always been strong demand for unique space downtown, particularly by growing tech firms, but there is a very limited supply of the right product,” he explains.