(AP) -- Crews plan to start digging up a square block of San Francisco Tuesday for a new subway tunnel linking Chinatown to the city's main train station in the South of Market area, even though funding remains up in the air.

The future labor workforce of the electrical industry in San Diego is going to come from people out of an apprentice shop or a four-year university, with a good amount being military veterans, as local entities are already aiding this cause.

The National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) will participate once again, in the fifth annual Mentoring A Girl In Construction "MAGIC CAMP," hosted by the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC).

Municipalities are quiet this week with summertime around the corner and the lack of construction activity.

Change by necessity has been the name of the game for San Diego-based Harper Construction the last 12-24 months.

(AP) -- A Southern California water board has issued an order to Pacific Gas & Electric to provide permanent, in-home water sources to residents whose groundwater was contaminated in Hinkley, the town that inspired the film “Erin Brockovich.”

The decision to redirect motor vehicle traffic and build a parking structure at Balboa Park is now in the hands of the San Diego City Council after the city’s Planning Commission voted Thursday to move the project forward.

(Bloomberg) -- Residential Capital LLC Chief Executive Officer Thomas Marano said the bankrupt lender will hire as many as 125 home loan processors as mortgage volumes are “up significantly.”

San Diego could be facing lawsuits by labor unions after propositions A and B both passed in the city of San Diego.

Despite thousands of bank-owned units that may become rentals, and a jobs market still recovering from a bad recession, the Inland Empire's apartment vacancy rate is projected to approach 4 percent by the year's end.

Nonunion contractors and those opposing collective bargaining agreements on construction projects garnered a win in Tuesday’s primary election, as project labor agreements are now banned on city of San Diego capital improvement projects.

(Bloomberg) -- Pacific Investment Management Co. (Pimco) plans to open two municipal bond funds Wednesday, one for California debt and the other for securities sold by state and local governments nationwide, according to a person with knowledge of the plan.

San Diego-based Bartell Hotels announced Wednesday that it has broken ground on a $13 million expansion of the Holiday Inn San Diego Bayside at 4875 N. Harbor Drive.

Approximately 1,500 apartment units are projected to hit the San Diego market this year -- more than triple last year’s figure -- and many more are in the pipeline, according to Novato, Ca.-based RealFacts.

Proposition A, which would prohibit the city of San Diego from requiring contractors to use project labor agreements, PLAs, for most city construction projects, is passing with 58.8 percent approval and 50.2 percent of precincts reporting.

A joint venture between affiliates of San Diego-based Westcore Properties and Dune Real Estate Partners LP have sold Commerce Center at Buena Park, a two-building industrial/cold storage facility at 6535 and 6625 Caballero Blvd.

Local businessman and philanthropist Conrad Prebys has made an additional $1 million gift to San Diego Hospice and The Institute for Palliative Medicine, in support of the nonprofit organization's programs and services for critically ill adults and children.

HomeFed Corp. has appointed Kent Aden vice president and senior development officer, overseeing the Carlsbad-based company's master-planned communities in California and Virginia.

A project designed by local architect Jonathan Segal has been recognized as Project of the Year by the magazine Residential Architecture.

The first of two phases of construction intended to speed passenger and freight rail services between Sorrento Valley and Miramar, a segment of rail where more than 50 trains per day operate, has begun.