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The
Little Italy Association has submitted an application to the
City of San Diego requesting changing Hawthorne Street to
Little Italy Way. The street will be changed from the freeway
off ramp to Harbor Drive. The Association is requesting the
name change
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as
a tribute to the historic Little Italy and to the many immigrants
that created this great community. Little Italy today represents
one of Downtown San Diego's oldest continuous neighborhood
business districts. At one time, more than 6,000 families
lived in Little Italy
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and
toiled to build San Diego into the center of the world tuna
industry.
With the decline of the tuna industry on the West Coast and
the destruction of 35% of Little Italy due to the construction
of Interstate 5, Little Italy suffered nearly thirty years
of decline. In the early 1990's, this area was known as
Harborview and when the Little Italy Association Business
Improvement District was established its first goal was to
have this area identified as "Little Italy" again. After seven
years of working together LIA and the community have accom
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plished
that goal.
We believe that
the changing of Hawthorne to "Little Italy Way" will pay tribute
to this historic, vibrant community of Downtown. It
will also be descriptive of the area as people are entering
the North Embarcadero and San Diego waterfront. We anticipate
the name change to occur by May of this year.
-- Shirley
Zawadzki
Little Italy Staff
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