University City (San Diego, Calif.)

University City (UC) is a community in San Diego, California, located in the northwestern portion of the city next to the University of California, San Diego. The area was originally intended to serve as housing for the faculty of the university, hence the name. University City is bordered by La Jolla and Interstate 5 to the west, Miramar and Interstate 805 to the east, and North Clairemont and Highway 52 to the south, giving the community a triangular-shaped boundary. Boosters have given it the nickname, The Golden Triangle. University City is a part of District 6, which is represented by Councilmember Kent Lee on the San Diego City Council. The northern half of the community hosts Westfield UTC mall. The commercial real estate market uses this nickname to refer to all the real estate north of the canyon which runs east-west through the middle of the community. Together with adjacent commercial areas along I-5 and I-805, University City forms part of San Diego's "North City Edge City", the largest such concentration in the county.