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Downtown's Core neighborhood stretches from A Street to Broadway
and Union and 12th Avenue. As its name connotes, the Core
is the visual and physical center of downtown. Alonzo Horton
began hotel and retail developments here in the 1860s and
in the 1920s saw the addition of several grand theatres. The
Core was downtown's fashionable business and entertainment
quarter until the urban center's decline began in the 1960s.
Since the Centre City Development Corporation's inception
in 1975, development of the Core has been a crucial element
to revitalizing San Diego's downtown area. Many old buildings
have been renovated for new residential and commercial uses,
drawing people into the neighborhood to live and work.
This Core now serves as the San Diego region's government
and corporate hub, housing the Civic Center, City Hall, the
Small Business Administration and the World Trade Center.
Broadway and C Street are focal areas for daytime and nighttime
activities fostered by street-level merchants. Existing notable
structures in the Core include the Westgate and U.S. Grant
hotels, the City Administration Building complex, Community
Concourse and the Civic Theatre, the new Central Jail, trolley
stops along C Street, and the high-rise offices of the B Street
"Financial Corridor."
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