IDEA1, a six-story, residential-office-retail project nearing completion in East Village, may represent the ultimate in mixed-use development that San Diego planners have been pining for over the past 40 years.
It will have 295 apartments, office and retail uses, a ground floor fitness center, top-floor clubhouse and a 13,000-square-foot open-air atrium, “The Hub.” Open to the public, it’s where visitors can attend concerts, TED talks and movie screenings and bump into each other — out of which encounters may come the next big thing.
“It really fits,” said Wil Reynolds, founder and CEO of Philadelphia-based Seer Interactive, which is moving its West Coast office from Little Italy to IDEA1 by the end of the year.