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El Cajon Boulevard is a major east–west thoroughfare through San Diego, La Mesa and El Cajon, California. Before the creation of Interstate 8 it was the principal automobile route from San Diego to El Cajon, the Imperial Valley , and points east as U.S. Route 80 ; it is now signed as a business loop of Interstate 8.
El Cajon Boulevard is a busy shopping district; additional retail establishments are at South Campus Plaza, a university housing and commercial complex on College Avenue. The region includes East Campus Medical Center at UC San Diego Health , a 306-bed acute care facility, and the College-Rolando branch of the San Diego Public Library .
El Cajon takes its name from Rancho El Cajón, which was owned by the family of Don Miguel de Pedrorena, a Californio ranchero and signer of the California Constitution.. El Cajón, Spanish for "the box", was first recorded on September 10, 1821, as an alternative name for sitio rancho Santa Mónica to describe the "boxed-in" nature of the valley in which it sat.
The 51st district takes in the cities of El Cajon, Lemon Grove, and La Mesa, as well as the census-designated places La Presa and Spring Valley. It also encompasses the San Diego neighborhoods of Paradise Hills , Mira Mesa , Miramar , San Carlos , Sorrento , Clairemont , Normal Heights , Allied Gardens , Grantville , Balboa Park , Linda Vista ...
State Route 94 (SR 94) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that is 63.324 miles (101.910 km) long. The western portion, known as the Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway, begins at Interstate 5 (I-5) in downtown San Diego and continues to the end of the freeway portion past SR 125 in Spring Valley.
College Grove Shopping Center, also Marketplace at the Grove, at SR-94 at College Avenue in Oak Park, San Diego, on the border of Lemon Grove, is an open-air shopping center, but was originally a regional shopping mall, only the second to be built in San Diego County, and the 37th in the country. It opened July 28, 1960 with an official grand ...
Grossmont College, located in El Cajon, and Cuyamaca College, located in Rancho San Diego, are two community colleges in the East County region. San Diego Christian College is located in Santee. Landmarks
The section of I-805 from SR 52 to El Cajon Boulevard was scheduled to be dedicated on March 20, 1972. [31] Ardath Road was renamed La Jolla Parkway on October 15, 2002, for two reasons: a nearby residential street was also named Ardath Road, and there was a desire to draw attention to this primary route to downtown La Jolla.