Media Coverage

• Web
• • Restaurant owners pleased with permanent sidewalk dining ordinance
    KPBS|November 2021
  • S.F.’s FiDi Finally Has A Business Improvement District. But Will That Solve Its Dogged Street Issues?
    Bisnow|January 2020
  • 6 Reasons ‘Community’ Matters in Business — Your Business
    Entrepreneur|July 2017
  • Where to Find Italy in America: San Diego’s Little Italy
    Italy Magazine|January 2017
  • Convoy District Looks To San Diego’s Little Italy For Inspiration
    KPBS|September 2016
  • Why Little Italy is the Perfect Family Neighborhood
    Red Tricycle|June 2015
  • Marco Li Mandri Placemaking Leadership Council Detroit Presentation
    Project for Public Spaces|August 2013

• Television
• • Can outdoor dining help rebuild Little Italy restaurant income?
    CBS 8 (San Diego)|April 2021
  • Community pivots during pandemic to help restaurants survive
    ABC 7 (Denver)|March 2021
  • California Governor Signs $7.6 Billion Stimulus Package
    NBC 7/39 (San Diego)|February 2021
  • Freeway Lids Hold Hope Of Reconnecting Neighborhoods
    KPBS (San Diego)|April 2012
  • City Falls Short, Citizens Jump In
    CNN Business|April 2011
  • Little Italy Association reacts to judge’s ruling that LA County acted arbitrarily to ban dining
    KUSI News (San Diego)|December 2020
  • Little Italy Association questions why Newsom would force another lockdown
    KUSI News (San Diego)|November 2020
  • Restaurants prepare for reopening in Little Italy San Diego
    KUSI News (San Diego)|May 2020
  • Little Italy Association partners with San Diego Rescue Mission to help homeless
    KUSI News (San Diego)|December 2021
  • Community pivots during pandemic to help restaurants survive
    ABC 10 News (San Diego)|March 2021

• Print
• • Column: San Diego is still trying to become a ‘City of Villages’
    The San Diego Union Tribune|April 2021
  • District-wide approach to outdoor dining
    Downtown Idea Exchange|October 2020
  • Marco Li Mandri – Editors’ Pick: Outdoor Dining Champion
    Ranch & Coast|September 2020
  • Temperate Southern California Channels European-Style Outdoor Dining as Pandemic Lingers
    Courthouse News Service|July 2020
  • Association Helps Bring Input, Influence To Little Italy Issues
    San Diego Business Journal|January 2020
  • Downtown SF businesses to tax themselves to pay for clean streets, homeless outreach
    San Francisco Chronicle|July 2019
  • Interview with Marco Li Mandri
    The 2018 Yearbook of the We the Italians|February 2018
  • San Diego’s Little Italy: A Surviving, Thriving Cultural Jewel
    Forbes|February 2019
  • Big office plans for Little Italy
    The San Diego Union Tribune|May 2018
  • Inside Little Italy’s Apartment Rush
    The San Diego Union Tribune|May 2018
  • Rental Scooter CEP Favor Rules
    The San Diego Union Tribune|April 2018
  • Factors that Formed Little Italy Hard to Duplicate
    San Diego Business Journal|March 2017
  • Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees, but What About Near Them?
    San Diego Business Journal|April 2016
  • Place Management In Downtowns & Transit-Oriented Developments
    The Council of State Governments|February 2016
  • Little Italy hotter than ever
    The San Diego Union Tribune|July 2015
  • Going Up?
    Riviera|September 2014
  • Little Italy Continues To Craft Its Image
    San Diego Business Journal|February 2014
  • He’s why we love Little Italy
    The San Diego Union Tribune|June 2013
  • Are America’s Little Italys Making a Comeback?
    Ambassador Magazine|September 2011
  • Benefiting from Special Districts in Cities
    Urban Land|January 2010
  • What is a Community Benefit District? Interview with Marco Li Mandri
    Oakland Registry|
  • Improvement Districts Offset The Decline in City Services
    San Diego Business Journal|June 2009
  • Can Little Italy be revived?
    Chicago Sun Times|January 2004
  • Inside Little Italy’s apartment rush
    The San Diego Union Tribune|May 2018
  • Large office building proposed for Little Italy
    The San Diego Union Tribune|June 2018
  • He’s why we love Little Italy
    The San Diego Union Tribune|June 2013
  • Little Italy hotter than ever
    The San Diego Union Tribune|July 2015
  • Downtown SD businesses to tax themselves to pay for clean streets, homeless outreach
    The San Francisco Chronicle|July 2019
  • Chula Vista’s Third Avenue in the hands of company that transformed Little Italy
    The San Diego Union Tribune|December 2021
  • In a mostly lawless industry, electric scooter company CEO suggests the industry police itself
    The San Diego Union Tribune|April 2018

• YouTube
• • How will San Diego interpret the Convoy District’s future?
    KPBS|September 2016
  • Why not a BID in Lowell?
    Historic Downtown Lowell|October 2015

• Radio
• • Restaurant owners pleased with permanent sidewalk dining ordinance
    KPBS (San Diego)|November 2021
  • Marco Li Mandri, President of New City America, and driving force behind Little Italy
    KCBQ 170AM|October 2019