Mayor Sanders appointed Janice Weinrick to lead the city’s Redevelopment Agency. (photo/lambertphoto.com)

When Jerry called, Janice came running. That’s Jerry, as in Mayor Jerry Sanders, and Janice Weinrick, who accepted one of the mayor’s appointments this year to the city’s redevelopment team. Weinrick had been overseeing land acquisition and project entitlements for The Olson Co. for a year when she got the call to rejoin the city under the mayor’s reorganization plan. She had spent 13 years — from 1992 through 2005 — with the Centre City Development Corp. before taking the private industry job.

Weinrick began her new city duties in February. She holds two titles — assistant director of the city Planning and Community Investment Department and executive director of the city Redevelopment Agency. She oversees 11 of the city’s redevelopment project areas that total more than 7,600 acres and represent more than $2 billion in projects under way and in the pipeline.

She was attracted to the job because of the reorganization. The Planning and Community Investment Department has four divisions — “a four-legged stool,” as Weinrick describes it — consisting of city planning, urban form, redevelopment and economic development. She says the department’s mission is to have the divisions work together for more efficient redevelopment efforts. “At this point in my career and nearing the end of my career, I feel my expertise and experience can be a major contributor to the redevelopment of San Diego,” says Weinrick, who turns 57 this month.

Weinrick, who spent another 13 years as the redevelopment director for the city of La Mesa before coming to San Diego, says she will probably work full-time for the foreseeable future, and “then maybe work as a consultant or get a job at Home Depot. It’s my backup.”

She’s only half joking. She has spent a lot of time at Home Depot after purchasing a 1920s Craftsman house in Kensington nine years ago and spending a good portion of her time renovating it. She is especially proud of the solar system she had installed to provide a good portion of the house’s electrical power. Weinrick, a TWIN Award winner in 1987, shares the home with her boyfriend, Lin Martin, a retail commercial broker with Grubb & Ellis|BRE Commercial.

— Manny Cruz