​San Diego (KGTV) -- The Port of San Diego may spend roughly $2.3 million to try to break the perception that Seaport Village is shutting down.

The aging, quaint waterfront center currently has 18 shuttered stores, mainly on its less visited east side. The mall is known for its souvenir and specialty shops, but has seen declining foot traffic in recent years.

Seaport Village is in store for a major redevelopment that could include a spire, hotels and an aquarium. The project, however, is five to seven years away.

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By: Amanda Brandeis, 10 News San Diego
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - While still a few years away from breaking ground, San Diego's Central Embarcadero will be getting a major facelift.

On Tuesday Protea Waterfront Development updated the Port of San Diego on their most recent proposed changes :

• Increase hotel rooms from 826 to 1,933
• Build a Veteran's Museum
• 85,000 sq. ft. event center (was originally proposed as 20,000 sq. ft.)
• Addition of fish processing plant
• Aquarium connected to a boutique hotel

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By Paul Krueger, 7 San Diego
Seaport Village would be razed, rebuilt and expanded, if Port Commissioners approve

A stunning makeover is in the works for San Diego's downtown waterfront.
 
The proposed $1.6 billion project would replace Seaport Village, a popular but aging collection of bayfront shops and restaurants along Harbor Drive.
 
Developer Yehudi Gaffen and his partners proposed a complete teardown and rebuild of Seaport Village.
 
It would also have a vast extension of the existing property to encompass 70 acres of land and water. This would span from north of the Midway Museum down to the area around Embarcadero Park.
 
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NBC 7 San Diego - Seaport Village may see a $1 billion redevelopment plan in its future. NBC 7's Monica Dean has more on what this could mean.

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By Jennifer Van Grove, The San Diego Union-Tribune
San Diegans would be forgiven, perhaps even applauded, for avoiding Seaport Village. Aside from the view, the 38 year-old waterfront property’s best pitch to consumers involves chain restaurants and trinket shops, seemingly only securing the approbation of cruise ship patrons and out-of-towners.

However, a grandiose plan to turn the prime real estate into a world-class destination lauded by locals and foreigners alike is currently underway. Called Seaport San Diego, the $1.6 billion project, backed in part by San Diego’s famed Jacobs family, was selected by the Port of San Diego in November 2016 to redevelop 70 acres — 39 land acres and 31 water acres — and is still in the beginning stages.

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By Brad Racino, inewssource
After years of negotiations, San Diego’s fishermen and a local developer have signed an agreement to recapture a lost piece of the city’s history – a thriving commercial fishing trade that once employed thousands of people while netting hundreds of millions of dollars.

Much of the agreement focuses on five acres called Tuna Harbor, and the role it will play within Seaport San Diego, the billion-dollar waterfront development expected to break ground in 2022.
 
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By Ray Huard, San Diego Business Journal

Yehudi “Gaf” Gaffen likes to fish and hunt.
When he hunts, he uses a bow and arrow instead of a gun.

When he fishes, he does a particularly difficult form of fly fishing.

As a younger man, he ran marathons. “I was running 100 miles a week,” Gaffen said. Friends and business associates said that need to challenge himself is typical, illustrated perhaps in that Gaffen is involved in two major projects on opposite sides of the planet.

He and his partners in Protea Waterfront Development are developers of the $1.2 billon redevelopment of a 70-acre portion of San Diego’s waterfront that includes Seaport Village. His project management firm, Gafcon, also is overseeing the development of a sprawling waterfront site in China along the Huangpu River spanning five square miles. The project is estimated to cost more than $7 billion.

Gaffen sees the San Diego Seaport project as his legacy, and also the most complex project he’s ever undertaken, although it’s smaller than the development in Shanghai.

Read the full story online at gafcon.com.
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By Danielle Radin, NBC San Diego - A world-renowned architect visited Seaport Village Tuesday with plans to transform San Diego's waterfront with parks, plazas, an aquarium, an urban beach, a public market and more. 

Bjarke Ingels is the star of the Netflix documentary, Big Time. The Danish architect is known for buildings that defy convention.

​Ingels envisions a 70-acre site encompassing 30 acres of water and 40 acres of land, which would include 14 acres of parks.

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KUSI News San Diego - A lot of change is coming to Seaport Village. KUSI was joined by Port Developer Yehudi “Gaf” Gaffen.

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KUSI News San Diego - Developers of a project to revitalize Seaport Village had to change their plans after discovering an earthquake fault line running right through the project.

GAFCO CEO, Yehudi Gaffen, joined us in studio to talk about the new plan and what it could mean for the future of San Diego.

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