San Diego Research

I'm working on the sequel to The Sad Girl, and need a little more information about San Diego. My original SD contact is unavailable at the moment, so I'm here to see what y'all can do for me.

Danny has a store near the 6000-6500 block of Federal Blvd. It's an online auction house similar to PropertyRoom.com, where he sells recovered property. Business is growing, his old lease is coming up, and he needs more room to store the stuff he's selling. He's got some walk-in traffic now and wants to be able to grow that, so it can't be just a warehouse. There's some scenes that take place while he's looking at one of the places, so I need to nail a location fairly closely. I don't need an exact address, but I need a couple of street names.

I'm picturing something in an area that might have food carts/trucks nearby, but not necessarily on a main drag, maybe a block or so off. Danny lives in Chula Vista now, but I'm not sure that affects much of anything. I feel like the place would be south of I-8, but that's not set in stone either.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

ETA: This is in mid-to-late 2011, for what that matters.

I'm picturing an older neighborhood, mostly older retail or light industrial, that's starting to rebuild/transition into retail and multi-family stuff. Not necessarily knocking down all the old buildings, but repurposing them, even with heavy renovation.

Thanks much to both of you. I think I can make something off University work.