The neighborhood around Petco Park now has its own, dedicated crew working to make it clean and safe.
Local businesses in the area created the new district in June to clean and improve the 22-block ballpark area. The Ballpark District now employs workers from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day picking up trash, power washing sidewalks, and beautifying the neighborhood.
“Everybody recognized, and major stakeholders in the ballpark recognized, that this area drew larger crowds than anywhere else in downtown, and so there needed to be an operation plan that matched the intensity of that use,” said district manager Dominic Li Mandri…