He helped shaped San Diego's downtown with projects like Horton Plaza, which was ground-breaking at the time.
Jerry Trimble, who arrived in San Diego in 1977 to take charge of downtown’s faltering redevelopment, got the Horton Plaza retail center back on track, introduced the first new housing in decades and helped revitalize the Gaslamp Quarter —all while ruffling feathers and puncturing egos at City Hall, in the community and among developers.“The guy was a Type A who went at 100 mph,” said Dean Dunphy.Dunphy served on the original board of the Centre City Development Corp.
Looking back, virtually all his admirers and critics said downtown would not have achieved so much without him.Wolden worked with Trimble on fashioning Ernest W. Hahn’s Horton Plaza shopping center into a one-of-a-kind downtown that opened to rave reviews in 1985 after 13 years of redesigns, financing rejiggers and critics who doubted the project.
Kit Goldman, whose nearby Horton Grand Theatre received financial backing from Hahn, even mounted a lunchtime comedy show, “Redevelopment or Bust,” featuring a character identified as “Gary Tremble.” Gerald M. Trimble was born July 16, 1935, in Wichita, Kan., to Delos Dweeseand Thelma Woodford Trimble. They moved the family to Maywood, Calif., in 1944, where their son helped out at their dry-cleaning business and ran track on the high school team. He joined the Army Reserve while attending USC, majored in psychology and went on to earn a real estate certificate at UCLA.
But as Trimble warned, it would not be clear sailing. Recessions, Proposition 13 property tax reform and competing political agendas upset timelines. In 1992 he joined Keyser Marston Associates in San Diego. Local consultant work included the Southeastern Economic Development Corp. and its redevelopment of the abandoned state Route 252 extension, City Heights Village, County Operations Center in Kearny Mesa and conversion of the Naval Training Center into Liberty Station. In 2013, he retired to spend a few years in private consulting.
Perhaps one of the ironies of Trimble’s life is that his son Michael became the executive director of the Gaslamp Quarter Association in 2016, the very same group that for a time refused to come under Trimble’s thumb because property owners feared CCDC’s powers of eminent domain.
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