South County Report: Hotel Project Marks Inflection Point for Chula Vista Homelessness Efforts

South County Report: Hotel Project Marks Inflection Point for Chula Vista Homelessness Efforts

Tuesday morning, an assembly of Chula Vista city leaders and local builders of affordable housing stood in a row in front of a dilapidated motel near the Palomar Street trolley station.  The group of eight dignitaries donned hardhats, squinted toward a bank of news cameras and plunged shovels into a pile of dirt placed photogenically on the asphalt parking lot.  The groundbreaking ceremony for a project that will convert the former Palomar Motel…