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A Non-Wall Building Boom Is Coming to Otay Mesa
Improved roads and infrastructure are among many changes planned for Otay Mesa. / Photo by Gabriel Ellison-Scowcroft A building boom is poised to make Otay Mesa an entirely different place in the...
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How a Company Built the Only Immigrant Detention Center Able to Expand in...
This post has been updated. In 2010, a private prison company, CoreCivic, spent $10.3 million on seemingly undesirable land in southeastern San Diego County. That land now houses the Otay Mesa...
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Top Stories: Jan. 12-19
Image via Shutterstock These were the most popular Voice of San Diego stories for the week of Jan. 12-19. 1. I Made It in San Diego: Moving Doesn’t Have to Be Terrible Mike Glanz, the founder and CEO...
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What Otay Mesa Wants Out of Its New Community Plan
In the next few months, the San Diego City Council will be asked to approve new zoning rules for its largest community. Otay Mesa, the sprawling community in the city’s southeast edge along the...
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The One Property That Could Hold Up Otay Mesa’s Community Plan
This story has been updated. Otay Mesa is a sprawling 9,300-acre community along San Diego’s Mexican border that’s in the midst of formulating its plan for future growth. But one 50-acre property...
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Jobs, Homes and the Border Loom Large as Otay Mesa’s Maps Its Future
Otay Mesa wants to be a big part of the solution to San Diego’s housing crisis. Its new community plan – which is up for a City Council vote Tuesday – aims to make the area a manufacturing jobs...
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390 Steps for San Diegans, a Giant Leap for Cross-Border Travel
For decades, San Diegans have debated alternatives to the city’s landlocked downtown airport and pushed solutions as radical as a floating one. Now a group of Mexican and U.S. investors, including...
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Two Years After New Growth Blueprint, Otay Mesa Still Not Sure Which Way to Grow
After a 13-year fight, Otay Mesa approved a new community plan in 2014 – but the debate over how to use hundreds of acres near the border is still raging. On one side is developers who want to see the...
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Two Men, 11 Countries and Seven Months Waiting on U.S. Asylum
An arduous journey covering 11 countries, weeks spent in various jails and a terrifying trek in the Colombian jungle was not enough to stop two Palestinians fleeing a war zone from reaching San Diego....
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A Faded Crosswalk, a Teen’s Death and the Housing Crisis Behind it All
This is Part One in a series on the hidden homeless families of San Diego’s South Bay. The evening of Jan. 29, 2014, 15-year-old Noemi Mendez and her older brother Elias stepped off the curb into a...
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