Grantville station

Union Grantville
An eastbound trolley at Union Grantville station, 2025
General information
Location4510 Alvarado Canyon Road
San Diego, California
United States
Coordinates32°46′50″N 117°5′51″W / 32.78056°N 117.09750°W / 32.78056; -117.09750
OwnerSan Diego Metropolitan Transit System
OperatorSan Diego Trolley
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsBus transport MTS: 13, 14, 18
Construction
Structure type
Elevated
Parking100 spaces
AccessibleDisabled access
History
OpenedJuly 10, 2005 (2005-07-10)
Services
Preceding station San Diego Trolley Following station
Mission San Diego
toward 12th & Imperial
 Green Line SDSU
toward El Cajon
Location

Union Grantville station is a station on San Diego Trolley's Green Line in the middle class residential Grantville neighborhood of San Diego, California. It opened in 2005.

The station is elevated and has side platforms with two railroad tracks passing between them. The station is located in the middle of a long, tall viaduct taking the trolley line over the Interstate 8 freeway. The station is located on Alvarado Canyon Road near Fairmount Avenue.

Grantville Station's design and art components by Michael Davis incorporate nautical and aviation themes from surrounding San Diego culture and history. Grantville Station is unique as the only two-level aerial station in its transit system, and Davis' station design takes advantage of the elevated platform with a 60-foot high elevator shaft and exterior spiral stairway. Additional station art and design features include tinted transparent platform canopies, stair and elevator shaft canopies, sculptural benches and pavement design, and extensive canopy, stairway, and station lighting.

Grantville Station in 2008

In 2022, a 126-unit affordable housing complex was built in the station's underutilized parking lot. An additional 126 unit affordable housing project was completed in 2024. In 2025, the developer of the Union Grantville project acquired the naming rights to Grantville station.


See also

References

  1. ↑ "San Diego Regional Transit Map" (PDF). San Diego Metropolitan Transit System. October 2023. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  2. ↑ "Transit Station Parking". San Diego Metropolitan Transit System. July 27, 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  3. ↑ "MTS Historical Timeline". San Diego Metropolitan Transit System. 2013. Archived from the original on June 21, 2013. Retrieved June 29, 2013.
  4. 1 2 "Public Art". Michael Davis, Artist. Retrieved May 9, 2026.
  5. ↑ "PUBLIC ART IN PUBLIC PLACES - Grantville Station (2005) by Michael Davis". www.publicartinpublicplaces.info. Retrieved May 9, 2026.
  6. ↑ Bowen, Andrew (February 15, 2022). "Coming to Grantville: More affordable housing … and wider roads?". KPBS Public Media. Retrieved February 14, 2025.
  7. ↑ Strain, Todd (April 30, 2024). "Affordable-housing complex opens in former Grantville Trolley stop parking lot". NBC 7 San Diego. Retrieved August 30, 2025.