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Midway District
Stalled car backs up traffic in Midway District
Gets bumped to safety by SDPD
At around 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 7, a Toyota sedan ran out of gas and stalled along Sports Arena Boulevard., near the corner of Midway Drive. As traffic backed up in the Midway District, ...
Vets’ shelter to remain open in Midway District until July
Mayor Filner appropriates funds from budget surplus
On Tuesday, April 22, the San Diego City Council voted to keep open the homeless veterans’ tent shelter at 2801 Sports Arena Boulevard. The shelter, a 150-bed facility for homeless vets that usually operates from ...
RV residents chased from Sports Arena parking lots
Unwelcome at beach and inland
As authorities in beach areas and on Shelter Island have been cracking down on prolonged parking of motor-homes, some of those RV residents have migrated to the Sports Arena area’s parking lots. However, businesses — ...
Another water pipe break in Midway District
No businesses flooded
On Saturday morning, February 9, a broken water main flooded streets in the Midway District. An aged pipe burst and made for a messy and congested effort to access the Rosecrans Street freeway entrances between ...
Midway District’s Heritage Inn explosion unrelated to meth
Burn victims were processing pot
What was first thought to be a meth-lab explosion at the Heritage Inn in the Midway District on the morning of January 30 is now being reported as a different sort of drug-related disaster that ...
Mall cops chase off unwanted habitués of Glasshouse Square
Parking and begging problems alleviated
As recently as last summer, Glasshouse Square Shopping Center, located in the Midway District, was home turf to many shelter-challenged individuals. Many customers and patrons were turned off by the presence of vagrants who would ...
Palm Patrol gathers downed fronds in Midway District
Road hazard eliminated
What many locals refer to as the “Palm Patrol" was out in force on Thursday morning, December 27, scouring the streets of the Midway District and Ocean Beach for palm fronds that litter the streets ...
Two water-pipe breaks in two days in Midway District
Early morning and Sunday traffic lessen impact
The weekend before Christmas 2012 was not kind to water pipes (or traffic) in the Midway District. Two incidents of burst pipes and localized flooding occurred: one along Sports Arena Blvd on Saturday, December 22, ...
Bieber tickets lead to police action in Midway District?
Handcuffed woman asks for help
San Diego police descended on the Stonewoood Gardens apartments, located on the 3800 block of Midway Drive (where it intersects with Sports Arena Boulevard), early on the morning of Wednesday, December 19. Four police cars ...
Sprucing up the Arena — that's a wrap
Photographer Rick Gould’s ’70s concert photos were made into art for the interior of Sports Arena.
