The Douglas Wilson Cos., a leading Downtown developer now and for two decades, is relocating its corporate offices from Mission Valley to Downtown San Diego. As of March 15, the company will occupy 7,640 square feet on the 19th floor of the office tower at 450 B St., reports Tigg Mitchell, the firm’s director of brokerage services.

Since the mid ’80s, Doug Wilson and his company have developed more than $300 million in Downtown office, hotel and residential properties, including the 1.1 million-square-foot Symphony Towers office-hotel complex and the 120-unit Parkloft condominium loft project a block from Petco Park in East Village. Later this spring, the firm breaks ground on The Mark, a 31-story, $120 million condominium tower across Island Avenue from Parkloft.

The office move also positions the company closer to the several Downtown law firms and courts it works with as a court-appointed fiduciary and asset management specialist.

Wilson’s personal Downtown involvements include serving as a member of the mayor’s Downtown Community Plan Update Steering Committee, chairman of the University Club atop Symphony Towers and immediate past vice chair of the Downtown San Diego Partnership.

“Given our extensive Downtown involvements, it makes sense for us to be in closer proximity to where we do much of our business,” Wilson says. “We’re also looking forward to becoming even more active in helping to develop Downtown as a 24/7 environment.”