Do you have a bucket list and is skydiving one of them but you’re scared to jump out of perfectly good airplane? Well, there’s going to be an indoor sky diving facility that’s coming to the East Village. The owner of Skydive San Diego, Buzz Fink, purchased a piece of downtown San Diego Real Estate on the corner of 14th & Island for around $2mil. He plans to build a 30 foot glass tube 14′ wide and 2 wind tunnels for “skydivers” to have the experience and have fun! The wind will be around 60 miles and hour for non experienced flier and around 180 for experienced. Fink also wants this facility to be for military training. The cost to build this will be around $10 million and their waiting on the permits. This grand facility could break ground as early as January 2016. Fink believes in the redevelopment in the East Village to the east of Petco Park. Both the blue and orange trolley line run through Imperial so transportation is already there and we should continue to see development in this area of downtown.
Please remember guys, this area is one of the last remaining locations in Downtown San Diego where you can buy an empty lot and not have to worry about the cost of demolishing an existing building or having to convert it. This would also be in great proximity of the San Diego Chargers if they were to move downtown. I’d say property values would greatly increase if/when that happens. Until then, there are other projects being developed around this area and you can start to see the transformation of this untapped location in downtown San Diego.