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Slight Correction
Great issue and article featuring CCDC, Peter Hall and Peter Davis (and the Governor).
One very slight correction to your comments on EDC (October 1998) in "Going to Bat for Downtown." When I headed EDC in the late '70s and early '80s, we assisted both Mitsui Bank and Sanwa Bank to establish regional operations — Downtown. Wickes and other corporate signs were already on the cityscape. We aggressively encouraged Downtown as a site to any potentially interested corporate headquarters, financial services firm, clerical intensive regional insurance HQ, Asian trading company or other logical employer.
From Dallas Clark and the founding of EDC until my tenure, we worked to represent all of San Diego County. It sometimes involved joint calling with Oceanside and Chula Vista, encouraging employment growth around all airports, or working with (and sharing speaking platforms with) Jerry Trimble, the (Pete Wilson) Mayor's office and the other very positive "usual suspects" involved in Downtown. A sampling of these would include the Chamber, ConVis, San Diegans Inc. and the Centre City Association. (I asked Mayor Frank Curran what he had done before entering politics; he said he couldn’t remember.)
As a metropolitan area which ranks from single digits (city population) to the mid 20s (many U.S. metro area criteria), we are still a "small town" by Top 10 Metro Area standards. Recognizing our strengths and weaknesses — and taking aggressive redevelopment steps with real world benefits — continues to be an important part of CCDC success.
Richard Davis
La Jolla
Historical sight
Glad to see you've added the Uptown Examiner to the San Diego Metropolitan stable of communications media. I have fond memories of seeing Dolph Westmorland and his family put together the Uptown Examiner and Navy News magazine in their print shop on El Cajon Boulevard (around 36th or 37th) in the late 1940s.
It was in that shop in 1949 that I got to play around with hot-lead type and handset heads in putting together my high school newspaper, the KHS News from Kearny High School. Dolph at that time had visions of expanding the Examiner circulation area to include Allied Gardens, a big new housing area north across the canyon from Uptown. I wish he could see what’s happening to his little neighborhood publication now.
Bill B. Burris
Devine, Texas
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