Tell Us How You Really Feel
Current Library Re-Use Opportunities’ Survey
by Mission Hills Business Improvement District
The current 3,850-square-foot Mission Hills Branch Library is located at 925 West Washington Street and built in 1961.
A new 15,000-square-foot new Mission Hills Hillcrest Branch Library will replace the current 3,850-square-foot Mission Hills Branch Library located at 925 West Washington Street and built in 1961. The San Diego Architectural firm Mosher Drew designed the project schematic, which was further developed by the C.W. Driver Design/Build team professionals, Manuel Oncina Architects and Ferguson Pape Baldwin Architects. The City purchased the new library site at West Washington and Front and construction began in Spring 2017. The new $21+Million library is scheduled to open in early-2019.
The current library is located at 925 West Washington on the western edge of the busy Mission Hills business district. An icon of this historic and bustling neighborhood, the 3,850-square-foot building is located on three parcels of land which total approximately 7,600-square-feet. It also serves a growing population from communities surrounding Mission Hills. Despite its small size, the library offers many educational programs for patrons of all ages. Several book clubs meet regularly at the current library and musical performances are scheduled throughout the year. The building will be vacated when the new library opens in early-2019.
The Mission Hills Business Improvement District is interested in learning what Mission Hills’ residents and business owners would like to see happen with the 3,850-square-foot space when the current library vacates. Your feedback is important to us. Won’t you please complete this brief survey to tell us how you really feel.
To take part in this survey, please go online to: http://bit.ly/mh-library-reuse.
This survey will be open for responses July 1 through July 21, 2018 and will only take a couple minutes to complete.
For questions, please visit: MissionHillsBID.com/Contact.
Survey Questions:
1) What would you like to see happen with the Mission Hills Library building at 925 West Washington?
A. Tear it down
B. Save it
C. Other:______
2) What would you like to see put into the empty lot, if the Mission Hills Library building at 925 West Washington was demolished?
A. Housing
B. A Business: Retail or Restaurant
C. Affordable mixed-use housing with businesses on the ground level
D. A parking structure
E. Use the empty lot for parking
F. I have no opinion
G. Other_______
3) Q: What would you NOT want to see in the space? And,why not?
A:____________
4) Knowing the Mission Hills Library building at 925 West Washington has deferred maintenance, which may include a bad roof, asbestos, dilapidated restrooms and is not ADA/Handicap compliant, how would you like to see necessary the improvements made?
A. City makes the improvements necessary to use the building
B. City leases the building to someone who makes the improvements
C. City sells it with a requirement to rehab the building
D. Other_________
5) The City wants to keep the building but has no money to do the necessary fixes. How can it get the money?
A. I’m rich. I’ll pay for it.
B. Have a community Fundraising Event
C. Sell it
D. Lease it
E. Other__________
6) Some have talked about keeping the Mission Hills Library building at 925 West Washington and re-using it. Which of the following re-uses are appealing to you?
A. Art Gallery
B. Brew Pub
C. Community Center
D. Co-op space for artists and crafts persons to lease and sell their art
E. Co-op We-Work space
F. Rehab to mixed-use saving the Mid Century architectural style
G. Other___________
7) If the Mission Hills Library building at 925 West Washington remained who should operate it?
A. The City of San Diego
B. Private Business Owners
C. A Non-Profit Entity
D. Other____________
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