{"id":412967,"date":"2026-07-26T16:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T16:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/412967\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T16:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T16:40:08","slug":"seaport-village-shops-do-their-part-but-they-need-help-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/412967\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaport Village shops do their part, but they need help \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seaport Village and the surrounding parks have been a \u201ctourist trap\u201d for decades. The San Diego Convention Center, Rady Shell at Jacobs Park and hotels bring thousands of tourists every year.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, as a resident who frequents the boardwalk, it\u2019s hard to see past the hypodermic needles in the rocks, all-day harbor police calls for service and the large unhoused population.<\/p>\n<p>Ringer\u2019s Roller Rink, Malibu Farm and the upcoming Gladstone\u2019s restaurant shine a light on an area many residents feared would be torn down.<\/p>\n<p>The business owners are doing their part; it\u2019s time for the city and Port to hold up their end of the bargain.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Siironen, Point Loma\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seaport Village and the surrounding parks have been a \u201ctourist trap\u201d for decades. The San Diego Convention Center,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-412967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}