Named for D.C. Collier — the developer who built the Point Loma Railroad in 1909, chaired San Diego's 1915 Panama-California Exposition, and donated 60 acres to the city for the children of San Diego — Collier Park at Greene and Soto streets is the surviving green-space remnant of that original land grant. The parcel sits directly across Nimitz Boulevard from the Point Loma Native Plant Garden, and the two spaces form a contiguous ecological corridor at OB's northeast edge. Mature eucalyptus canopy shades a sloped lawn, picnic tables, and horseshoe pits on roughly 6.7 dedicated acres that include the adjacent community garden. The 1971 Collier Park protest — when residents blocked a city attempt to sell the land for apartment development — cemented the parcel's civic identity, a tradition of neighborhood stewardship now echoed by the weekly Ocean Beach Farmers Market on Newport Ave. The park's most intensive community use is as overflow staging for peninsula-wide events requiring open turf, portable-stage footprints, and vehicle access from both Greene and Soto streets.