Westside Improvements

As part of its on-call landscape architect design contract, Spurlock Landscape Architects provided design concepts and implementation for several small projects in National City's western area between National City Boulevard and Interstate Five.  The designs looked at leveraging local stakeholders, National City's ARTS (A Reason to Survive), and re-purposed materials to enliven and create identity in this neighborhood.

 

Studies included creating a trail of I-Beams that generally followed Paradise Creek from San Diego Bay to Kimball Park to identify an urban trail.  Another similar study looked at how to create a pedestrian network using salvaged materials as "breadcrumbs."  Part of this design study led to the transformation of the asphalt parking lot located on the main route to the neighborhood elementary school in front of the neighborhood store into a pedestrian plaza.  This "Market Makeover" featured incredible interventions by ARTS and the neighborhood children leading to a community "Build Day."  This project received the San Diego Architecture Foundation's inaugural Placemaking Orchid Award.

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Fred led the design and drawings efforts as well as coordinating with the various stakeholders.