The construction front is light this week at municipalities, with few upcoming projects.

When it opens in July, Pier South will join the Hotel del Coronado as the second of only two hotels in San Diego built on the beach.

Located in the East Village on the Park-to-Bay promenade, the new Central Library designed by Rob Wellington Quigley, FAIA/Tucker Sadler Architects, symbolically unites the regional architecture of the past to the architecture of the present in a commitment to the city’s future.

Friday is the deadline for bidder prequalification for the new downtown San Diego Central Courthouse, a 22-story, 71-courtroom endeavor that is the state’s largest courthouse construction project. The construction site is on 1.4 acres encompassed by West C, Union, West B and State streets.

The Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in Otay Mesa may be one of the sites selected to accommodate prisoners currently housed in a Riverside prison that will close in 2016. If it happens, it will get a new building that can house 800 inmates.

The city of Carlsbad has released its proposed Capital Improvement Program, which includes $43 million in future construction work for the upcoming fiscal year.

Facing the growing likelihood of a Sacramento-imposed deadline, members of the San Diego City Council have begun laying the groundwork for a proposal that would require all city contractors to pay prevailing wage rates to their workers.

Through a series of three votes, the Board of Supervisors adopted two ordinances Wednesday that could speed up decisions on wind turbine development in the county and certified the environmental impact report relating to the changes.

Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) employs about 5,000 people in San Diego, but thanks to sequestration budget-tightening, that number won't rise anytime soon.

Pledging to find new ways to bring artistic experiences to the general public, Denise Montgomery, a former director of the Denver Cultural Affairs Office, was named on Tuesday as the city’s new executive director for arts and culture.

For the time being, a possible expansion of the Property Assessed Clean Energy financing program was put to a halt Tuesday, leaving the program with no set plan to change or expand it.

The San Diego City Council unanimously passed the sidewalk cafe ordinance on a unanimous vote Tuesday.

Defense industry professionals are in the midst of diluting the toxic combination of rising health care costs and sequestration.

The Board of Supervisors will receive on Tuesday an evaluation of programs across the state administering Property Assessed Clean Energy, while a stalled hearing on the county's wind ordinance will continue Wednesday.

A lawsuit has been filed in Superior Court in Vista against the city of Carlsbad over its City Council’s approval of the planned 656-unit residential portion of the Quarry Creek development adjacent to Oceanside's city limits.

The Poway Unified School District took the grand prize for the worst action taken by a local public agency at the 18th annual Goldens award dinner hosted by the San Diego County Taxpayers Association.

A proposal to raise the minimum port rents from 75 percent to 80 percent of market rent was unanimously turned back by the Board of Port Commissioners this past week.

The city of San Diego filed a lawsuit this week against the Regional Water Quality Control Board, challenging the agency's approval of a plan to clean up a fuel spill underneath Qualcomm Stadium.

The question of whether the county will expand its wind energy policies to make certain projects easier to complete remains unanswered, as the Board of Supervisors’ plans this week were stalled.

In his continuing feud with Mayor Bob Filner, City Attorney Jan Goldsmith complained to the City Council this week that the mayor was wreaking vengeance on his department by moving to fire lawyers who disagree with his point of view.