City Heights Urban Village
3795 Fairmount Avenue, City Heights
619-641-6125
It began seven years ago with a vague plan to build a police station on 43rd Street. But Price Club founder Sol Price is an impatient billionaire. He wanted more than a police station for City Heights. Price ponied up $15 million of his own money to challenge the city, and he teamed up with former councilman William Jones, who dreamed of curing the neighborhood's woes. Price and Jones took only a few years to realize City Heights Urban Village, an eight-acre park complete with community gym, library, outdoor theater, Olympic-size pool, small-sized water park, tennis courts, soccer fields, picnic tables, and a 9000-square-foot recreation center. Buff, blond lifeguards teach little black girls how to swim. Vietnamese boys play soccer with Mexican kids. In the library, a Somali girl in traditional dress does her Spanish homework. In the sandbox, toddlers scramble and scrape, babbling in 30 different linguistic variations of baby talk.
City Heights Urban Village
3795 Fairmount Avenue, City Heights
619-641-6125
It began seven years ago with a vague plan to build a police station on 43rd Street. But Price Club founder Sol Price is an impatient billionaire. He wanted more than a police station for City Heights. Price ponied up $15 million of his own money to challenge the city, and he teamed up with former councilman William Jones, who dreamed of curing the neighborhood's woes. Price and Jones took only a few years to realize City Heights Urban Village, an eight-acre park complete with community gym, library, outdoor theater, Olympic-size pool, small-sized water park, tennis courts, soccer fields, picnic tables, and a 9000-square-foot recreation center. Buff, blond lifeguards teach little black girls how to swim. Vietnamese boys play soccer with Mexican kids. In the library, a Somali girl in traditional dress does her Spanish homework. In the sandbox, toddlers scramble and scrape, babbling in 30 different linguistic variations of baby talk.
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