Supervisor Roberts and the County of San Diego have embarked on a visionary plan to transform the large asphalt parking lots that book-end the historic County Administration Center into a beautiful, lushly-landscaped waterfront park.

The park will include several outdoor rooms of varying sizes that would be delineated by trees and other landscaping. Traversing across much of the park will be a unique linear fountain that children can frolic in.

To make way for the park, most of the parking at the County Administration Center (CAC) will be relocated to a County-owned property across the street from the CAC on a block bounded by Kettner Blvd, Cedar St., Beech St., and the railroad tracks. Parking will be provided in a structure to be built in conjunction with a residential tower and commercial units. After hours, the parking spaces used during the day by County employees will be available to the public. On July 31, 2007, the Board of Supervisors voted to enter into an exclusive negotiating agreement with Clark Realty Capital LLC to develop the entire site.

The parking structure is expected to be completed in 2009, at which time construction on the park will begin. If all goes as planned, the park should be open by the summer of 2010.