Grossmont Medical Terrace Parking Structure

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I AM not sure which Building Category that this parking structure offends more!! THIS hideous blight of form-follows-nothing-good is a scar on the landscape visible by day off the new HWY 125 (between Hwy 8 and Fletcher-Parkway exits) OR it's repulsive glare that permeates and invades the valley in every direction for a mile or more at night. OH, it get's better, go by the site when there is fog and you get a whole different assault of your senses. BUT I am being too kind. This structure it terrible and NO ONE did a thing to stop it. IT should be distroyed, or at least fined for light pollution violations. IT's just on my way home; however, HAD I known of it's planning I would have made every Neighborhood Board Meeting and called Turko.
Project Information
Project Address: 
8860 Center Dr, La Mesa, CA
Project Owner/ Developer: 
Sharp Grossmont Hospital/ Pacific Medical Buildings (Developer)
Owner Contact Name/ Email: 
Hal Sherman, hal@pmbllc.com
Project Architect/ Designer: 
HDR Architecture
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grossmont hospital garage

Submitted by mjewin on Mon, 11/30/2009 - 18:59.
Is the new Childrens Hosiptal garage any better?

Wow

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 09/04/2009 - 22:05.
Wow. By day the new multi-level parking garage at Grossmont Hospital (overlooking Fletcher Parkway and HWY 125) is just another eyesore on the horizon, void of any redeeming feature; but, by night it explodes into an all emcompassing beackon of reckless horror, a light blight. IT is especially accented on a foggy night when the light sources, that no one thought to disquise, lights up the valley and glares into each window of the adjacent sea of apartment complexes. YOU have to see it to believe it. The electrical designer should be brought up on charges. I don't know the official title of this project, but it's hard to miss... especially at night.

Thanks for the photos

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 08/11/2009 - 00:46.
These photos don’t tell the entire story, since most of this buildings offensive gestures are witness from ½ mile away; which is hard to capture in a photograph. I just can’t believe with our local light pollution laws allowed this to be built. I realize that there are minimum foot-candle limits for parking structures, but zero effort is made in this facility to contain the light from escaping the site. Zero, which is my main gripe, besides being terrible to look at by day.