(AP) -- A disbarred San Diego County lawyer who made national headlines by encouraging people to break into their foreclosed homes has been sentenced in Vista in two criminal cases.

Construction is under way by Pardee Homes at its Watermark, a neighborhood of new luxury homes in the Pacific Highlands Ranch master-planned community.

Fleet Readiness Center Southwest (FRCSW) will hold a ground breaking ceremony for its new helicopter maintenance, overhaul and repair facility on Dec. 10.

(AP) -- A former Carmel real estate developer has been sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison for defrauding investors out of millions of dollars in a failed luxury home development and golf course.

All of the Nov. 6 absentee ballots have been counted, and there are now seven school construction bond measures that passed in last month’s general election.

San Diego County governments may have to redraw a nearly $200 billion plan that lays out transportation projects for the next 40 years.

(Bloomberg) -- Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) sued Alan Casden, a Beverly Hills, Calif., real estate developer, for $43.4 million, claiming his company defaulted on the financing of a Gulfstream 550 corporate jet.

(Bloomberg) -- Brookfield Residential Properties Inc., a Calgary, Canada-based land developer and homebuilder, will add around 2,250 homes in California to its real estate portfolio after acquiring Playa Capital Co. LLP for an undisclosed amount.

ESCONDIDO – Cassidy Turley San Diego announced that it has been selected as the exclusive marketing, leasing and sales representation firm for a 10-plus property portfolio for the city of Escondido.

The first week of December is a quiet one, with few construction updates happening at municipalities.

At its final monthly member meeting of the year, the San Diego chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association held its annual election of board members and its executive committee.

With three weeks until the official start of winter when the days finally start getting longer, take advantage of the last few weeks of fall and the decreasing sunlight to head indoors for some of San Diego’s business events. Construction management, real estate, holiday parties, environmental law -- take your pick.

The decision of the San Diego County Water Authority’s board of directors to approve on Thursday a 30-year water purchase agreement between it and Poseidon Resources, is having an effect.

Pardee Homes has construction under way at its Watermark, a neighborhood of 87 single-family detached homes located in the Pacific Highlands Ranch master-planned community.

San Diego-based general contractor C.W. Driver has completed construction of the new $10 million social sciences and humanities complex at Mt. San Jacinto College in Menifee, Calif.

With a large excavator just a few feet to his side, former San Diego Mayor and California Gov. Pete Wilson helped usher in a new era for Horton Plaza as he and the planners of the new Horton Plaza development project held a ceremonial groundbreaking in downtown San Diego Thursday.

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.