The House of Heirlooms, an approx. 9,500-sq-ft retail property at 801-815 University Avenue was recently sold for $1.3 million. The buyer was 819 University Acquisition Company, a California limited partnership headed by Masayuki Ueda who owns Studio 819 next door to the east. The seller, Donald Levi trustee of the Ruth Schulman Trust, took back a trust deed for $300,000. Occupying a nearly quarter-acre lot, the building was occupied for decades by House of Heirlooms. Constructed in 1919 as a surgery annex to St. Joseph’s Hospital across the street, it was moved to this location in 1924. In January 2007, San Diego's Historic Resource Board voted to designate the structure as historical. Mr. Ueda's company has allowed historical elements of the building to be removed, broken windows boarded up, graffiti and general disregard for this historic building. Mr. Ueda's attoneys tried to discredit the historicity of this structure before the HRB. To their credit, the HRB designated the property as historic. Today, Mr. Ueda is allowing the structure to decay to the point where there is no other choice but to demolish a building that plays an important role in the history of Hillcrest.

Project Information

Project Address: 

801 University Avenue SD 92103

Project Owner/ Developer: 

819 University Acquisition Company

Owner Contact Name/ Email: 

Masayuki Ueda

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