San Diego County
Environmental remediation
in Escondido, California.
An older downtown core wrapped in postwar tracts and agricultural buildings.
Why it is here
The building stock in Escondido
Escondido has an older core than its inland-suburb reputation suggests. The downtown grid and the streets around Grand Avenue hold pre-war and early postwar housing with plaster, original heating and lead paint. Around it sits heavy 1950s to 1970s tract growth — the texture, tile and mastic era — plus agricultural and light-industrial buildings on the valley floor that carry transite, pipe lagging and older roofing.
The older commercial stock downtown is where the less obvious materials turn up — transite panel, boiler and pipe insulation, built-up roofing. Those need identifying before demolition starts, not during.
Working on a property in Escondido?
Tell us what was found, what work is planned and when the property needs to be ready. We will walk the site, define the scope and provide a written proposal with the work sequence, exclusions, schedule and price.