Building History

The Sherman Heights Community Center is a two-story 12,500 square foot facility designed by renowned architect Robert Quigley in collaboration with community members. The building “evolved through a series of hands-on community design workshops, with schoolchildren and Gray Panthers alike sketching their visions on butcher paper and building models out of clay.” The building also pays homage to the aesthetics of the historic neighborhood of Sherman Heights and to the early 20th-Century architect Irving Gill, who is considered a pioneer of the modern movement in architecture and reportedly lived in a house of his own design on 25th Street. The building also features public works of art by international artists Raul Guerrero and Jean Cornwell and community members.

The cement and wood building features multiple offices, a multipurpose room, a commercial kitchen, inner courtyard, a balcony, onsite mural, vegetation, playground and  elevator. The facility offers stunning views of Sherman Heights and the Coronado Bridge andis centrally located east of downtown San Diego, between Golden Hill and Barrio Logan. There is plenty of street parking as well as easy access to freeways 5 and 805 and interstates 94 and 15.