Client: San Diego River Park Foundation

9,000 SF
17.5 Acre Site

Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects, Inc. (RNT) is designing the San Diego River Discovery Center at Grant Park which is a new educational, meeting, and community development project designed to support the San Diego River Park Master Plan. The project serves as a model development project for properties that are adjacent to and/or could impact the San Diego River.

The Discovery Center includes a new 9,000 SF educational, meeting and community facility, a new outdoor classroom space, outdoor volunteer staging areas, an outdoor interpretive water feature, native landscape restoration landscaping, site improvements, the extension of the San Diego River Trail, and a San Diego River observation pier. The center is a public/private facility designed for the local community and visitors.

Within the center there will be literature, videos, lecture rooms and a museum to showcase the river’s history (via brochures and walking tours). The project’s footprint minimizes the development of the 17.5-acre site which will contribute to the river channel in meandering as desired in the master plan. Currently in the site development permitting phase, the project's sustainability goal is a LEED Platinum net-zero energy-use facility.