When Tony DeSantis moved into his two-bedroom downtown condo overlooking Petco Park, he never thought that a year later, he would be part of a small group able to watch a Padres game live rather than on television.
“It never even crossed my mind,” DeSantis said.
Yet he finds himself here, one of only about a few hundred owners and tenants with coveted balconies and floor-to-ceiling windows that peer into Petco Park from high in the sky, a fan’s dream during a baseball season that has closed its gates to spectators while playing through a pandemic.
The 51-year-old DeSantis and his wife, Adriana, both passionate Padres fans, live in The Mark, a high-rise building two blocks from Petco Park.