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San Diego historic places that have been recently fixed up (and some you can visit!)

Adaptive reuse award 827 C. St, San Diego Winner: San Diego Housing Commission The Hotel Churchill opened at Ninth Avenue and C Street in 1914 and, after a few decades of deterioration, closed in 2005. It was purchased it six years later by the Housing Commission. It reopened in September, refurbished for $20.6 million. It is now a subsidized housing complex with 72 apartments designed to help struggling veterans, youths and ex-convicts. Historic elements restored included the building’s neon sign and exterior.

Adaptive reuse award

827 C. St, San Diego

Winner: San Diego Housing Commission

The Hotel Churchill opened at Ninth Avenue and C Street in 1914 and, after a few decades of deterioration, closed in 2005. It was purchased it six years later by the Housing Commission. It reopened in September, refurbished for $20.6 million. It is now a subsidized housing complex with 72 apartments designed to help struggling veterans, youths and ex-convicts. Historic elements restored included the building’s neon sign and exterior.

  (Hayne Palmour IV / San Diego Union-Tribune)

By Phillip Molnar
San Diego Union-Tribune
Horton Plaza Park and Broadway Fountain

Partners in preservation award

324 Horton Plaza, San Diego

Winners: City of San Diego, Civic San Diego, Westfield

Horton Plaza had fallen into disrepair before a massive remodel that restored it to its original 1910 appearance. Its Broadway Fountain, designed by architect Irving Gill, is again flowing. The award is a much-needed boost for the plaza, which has seen a large homeless population find refuge there and the nearby Westfield mall — owners of Horton Plaza — is struggling to hold onto tenants like many malls across the nation.

  (Peggy Peattie / San Diego Union-Tribune)

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  (Peggy Peattie / San Diego Union-Tribune)

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Phillip Molnar

Phillip Molnar covers residential real estate, as well as other business issues for The San Diego Union-Tribune. He is an award-winning New Jersey, California and national reporter. Before coming to the Union-Tribune, he worked for the Monterey Herald, The Express-Times and New Jersey Herald. He lives in Chula Vista.

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