Construction is complete at Paseo La Jolla, the new 24-unit luxury townhome community on nearly 28,000 square feet at the corner of Herschel and Pearl in La Jolla.

The construction backlog shrunk in the West during the fourth quarter of 2012, but still saw growth compared to the previous year, according to the latest Associated Builders and Contractors Construction Backlog Indicator report.

(AP) -- A huge homeless encampment has mushroomed in a grassy field near downtown San Jose.

Demand for design services in the West increased for the sixth straight month in December, according to the newest American Institute of Architects Architecture Billings Index released Wednesday.

(AP) -- The New York attorney general said the $60 million initiative to provide counseling and legal services to homeowners at risk of foreclosure reached 3,600 in the first three months including 547 in the Buffalo and Niagara Falls region.

After 53 years in San Francisco, the Pacific Coast Builders Conference will fly south in June to sunny San Diego.

(Bloomberg) – The San Diego County Water Authority sold $299.1 million in refunding debt, as the California agency builds the Western Hemisphere's largest water-desalination plant.

Pierce Education Properties L.P. (PEP), a San Diego-based student housing and real estate investment, management and development firm serving educational institutions and communities, announced that it has acquired North Campus Crossing (Phase I and Phase II), a 1,692-bed, off-campus student housing complex at Eastern Carolina University.

It’s a slow week for construction at municipalities and public education boards, with President’s Day on Monday.

A new judge presiding over the cases against more than a dozen defendants facing various charges of corruption in multiple South County school and college districts has pushed back the defendants’ arraignment dates once again.

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Loews Coronado Bay Resort has undergone a redesign of its lobby, Bay Terrace, Cays Lounge, Market Café and Market-to-Go, wrapping up a nine-month-long transformation on the heels of additional renovations to the meeting space, corridors and guestroom bathrooms, totaling an investment of $12 million over the last three years.

Cumming Corp., a San Diego-based international project and cost management firm, delivered services on more than $7 billion worth of projects in 2012, according to company President Pete Heald at a recent open house at its headquarters.

(AP) -- Northern California has posted its strongest housing market in six years, with sales and prices increasing. But researchers say the market's still far from normal.

(Bloomberg) -- Taylor Morrison Home Corp., a builder of homes in the United States and Canada, doubled the amount it will seek in a U.S. initial public offering to $500 million.

NECA and the NECA Student Chapter are asking its members and friends to participate in the upcoming San Diego State University J.R. Filanc Construction Engineering & Management Program Gala sponsorship.

Construction has started on a new Fixtures Living showroom and retail storefront at Westfield UTC.

The toils and rewards of smaller infill and mixed-use developments were the topics of a morning meeting of the San Diego/Tijuana Chapter of the Urban Land Institute at the University Club on Tuesday.

Changes to the Pasha Automotive Services leasehold in National City were unanimously approved in concept by the Board of Port Commissioners on Tuesday.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg last week helped Thomas Jefferson School of Law dedicate its new building along with former members of the Brazilian and French high courts.