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City Heights resident spearheads effort for entryway arch
Blueprint by Signtech
Kenton Finkbeiner wants City Heights to have a sign like other San Diego neighborhoods, including Hillcrest, Kensington, and North Park, to name a few.
The City Heights resident — the project’s leader under a cooperative effort with the City Heights Town Council and the City Heights Area Planning Committee — has a long way to go to raise funds for the sign. Since he went public with the project on January 1, he’s raised only $80. He needs $375,000.
City Heights used to have a neighborhood sign, just like 13 other neighborhoods in San Diego County. Most are concentrated in the uptown and downtown neighborhoods, except for Chula Vista, Encinitas, and El Cajon.
But a San Diego Union article dated January 27, 1968, states that the City Heights neighborhood sign (which read “East San Diego,” as the area was called then) was removed from its location at University and Fairmount in the mid-city neighborhood due to street widening and structural damage. At the time, there were no plans to reinstall it, and it was never replaced.
“Now, 48 years later, here we are without a sign when all the other neighborhoods have theirs” he said. “I wanted to wake up the sign project, so I just took the helm.”
In the summer of 2012, Finkbeiner decided to mount his effort to bring the sign back. He went to City Heights–based Signtech.
“They believe in the project and they just wanted to do the project pro bono to get the campaign going,” Finkbeiner said
Lack of funds hasn’t stopped Finkbeiner’s efforts. He said Signtech has already spent hundreds of hours creating a design and drafts of the proposed sign. Finkbeiner is campaigning to get grants, donations, and possibly cash from the city to fund the project.
“It is important culturally for the city, in part because every neighborhood in mid-city has a sign,” said Finkbeiner, a City Heights resident for nine years. “It is one thing that can change the perspective of the people who live on the other side of the 805.”
Donors can go to Finkbeiner’s GoFundMe page.
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Signs, signs, everywhere a sign — exactly!
City Heights resident spearheads effort for entryway arch
Signs, signs, everywhere a sign — exactly!
City Heights resident spearheads effort for entryway arch
Blueprint by Signtech
Kenton Finkbeiner wants City Heights to have a sign like other San Diego neighborhoods, including Hillcrest, Kensington, and North Park, to name a few.
The City Heights resident — the project’s leader under a cooperative effort with the City Heights Town Council and the City Heights Area Planning Committee — has a long way to go to raise funds for the sign. Since he went public with the project on January 1, he’s raised only $80. He needs $375,000.
City Heights used to have a neighborhood sign, just like 13 other neighborhoods in San Diego County. Most are concentrated in the uptown and downtown neighborhoods, except for Chula Vista, Encinitas, and El Cajon.
But a San Diego Union article dated January 27, 1968, states that the City Heights neighborhood sign (which read “East San Diego,” as the area was called then) was removed from its location at University and Fairmount in the mid-city neighborhood due to street widening and structural damage. At the time, there were no plans to reinstall it, and it was never replaced.
“Now, 48 years later, here we are without a sign when all the other neighborhoods have theirs” he said. “I wanted to wake up the sign project, so I just took the helm.”
In the summer of 2012, Finkbeiner decided to mount his effort to bring the sign back. He went to City Heights–based Signtech.
“They believe in the project and they just wanted to do the project pro bono to get the campaign going,” Finkbeiner said
Lack of funds hasn’t stopped Finkbeiner’s efforts. He said Signtech has already spent hundreds of hours creating a design and drafts of the proposed sign. Finkbeiner is campaigning to get grants, donations, and possibly cash from the city to fund the project.
“It is important culturally for the city, in part because every neighborhood in mid-city has a sign,” said Finkbeiner, a City Heights resident for nine years. “It is one thing that can change the perspective of the people who live on the other side of the 805.”
Donors can go to Finkbeiner’s GoFundMe page.
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