Cities, and the businesses that inhabit them, need to re-think their approach to parking, according to an Urban Land Institute of San Diego/Tijuana luncheon panel Thursday in Vista.

San Diego can now — officially — expect to be drinking desalinated seawater within a few years.

(Bloomberg) -- Trulia Inc., the real estate information website, is teaming up with Web publisher Primedia Inc. as it expands in the online apartment rental listings market.

Around a decade ago Echo Pacific Construction Inc. (www.echopacific.com) took itself through a significant corporate shift. The first part was to completely redirect the business focus from dollars earned to clients satisfied. The idea was in fact to not just satisfy our clients, but to leave them with the sense that the value they received in the process of capital improvements could only have been achieved with Echo Pacific at their side.

SCS Engineers has hired Srividhya Viswanathan as its new senior project professional.

PCL Construction Services Inc. has been awarded the design-build contract to build a parking structure at the San Diego Community College District’s Continuing Education César E. Chávez campus in Barrio Logan.

A collection of eight electric vehicle charging stations placed in various areas administered by the Port of San Diego is the latest accomplishment of the agency’s Green Port Program, the Port announced Wednesday.

(AP) -- The Santa Monica city council voted Tuesday to give final approval to an ordinance allowing a modest trailer park to be replaced with hundreds of high-end condos and apartments, possibly ending a six-year battle over the future of some of this beachfront city's last inexpensive housing.

Balfour Beatty Construction has broken ground on the new Solana Ranch Elementary School.

Visible from the street driving south on Park Boulevard between Zoo Drive and Zoo Place, the Solar-to-EV Project's 10 canopy structures can produce enough energy at peak capacity to power 59 homes, as well as five electric vehicle charging stations and a sizable battery storage system.

(AP) -- The Santa Monica City Council is scheduled to give final approval to an ordinance allowing one of the city's last modest trailer parks to be replaced with hundreds of high-end homes.

There is no Thanksgiving hangover at municipalities this week, as most are slated to meet and provide updates on construction projects.

(Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) may limit its exposure to claims by Countrywide Financial mortgage-backed securities investors after a federal judge said she may have erred two years ago by allowing some claims to proceed.

(AP) -- California environmentalists are suing Fresno County in an effort to block the proposed 886-acre Carmelita mine rock quarry project near Reedley.

(Bloomberg) -- Blackstone Group LP expects to increase sales of its property holdings in the next year, with potential buyers including real estate investment trusts and sovereign wealth funds, said Jonathan Gray, the firm's global head of real estate.

The Architecture Billings Index dipped slightly in the West, but demand for design services is still increasing, according to the latest report by the American Institute of Architects released on Wednesday.

A Vancouver, Wash.-based developer has broken ground on the 242-unit apartment complex called 15th and Market -- just one of several apartment projects under way in the East Village.

The San Diego County Water Authority announced Wednesday that its board of directors will on Nov. 29 consider approval of a 30-year water purchase agreement with Poseidon Resources, developer of the seawater desalination plant proposed for construction in Carlsbad.

(AP) -- Itsy-bitsy apartments are coming to San Francisco.

NewSchool of Architecture and Design students will be able to study abroad in Italy and New Zealand and take new courses in design programs beginning next fall.