A beautiful white San Diego elephant had fallen into foreclosure.

by Moe Bedard on March 11, 2010

It doesn’t appear to be the first major project that’s run into trouble for Mendiola. He and another architect, Jess Gonzales, led a development team that built a lavish manor called “Essencia” on La Jolla’s Hillside Drive, listing it in 2006 for $21.5 million.

San Diego Magazine gushed over the six-bedroom, seven-bath, spec house — meaning the developers built it with no particular buyer in mind — in a spread in 2007.

That wasn’t the only time the house made headlines. In a 2008 article, the Union-Tribune’s Roger Showley revealed that the home — by then a “beautiful white elephant” — had fallen into foreclosure.

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