The San Diego City Council unanimously approved the San Diego River Park Master Plan Monday.

Hawaiian Airlines, Hawaii’s biggest and longest-serving airline, launched a new dining rewards partnership with Mogl.

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.

The Old Police Headquarters in San Diego, which has stood idle for 26 years, is coming out of retirement.

Those in the San Diego hospitality world know of Mina Desiderio, Ty Hauter, Brendan Huffman, Greg Koch, Nathan Stanton, Arsalun Tafazoli and Steve Wagner. If you don’t know their names, you probably know their businesses.

The Hilton San Diego Bayfront has completed construction on its latest expansion, which adds 2 acres of outdoor space and indoor amenities to its poolside oasis.

The last of three properties purchased by partnerships of the late Graham Downes in July of last year is being put up for sale.

Sur La Table Inc., an upscale culinary shop, has signed a 10-year, $2.08 million lease for 6,720 square feet of retail space at 7643 Girard Ave. in La Jolla.

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.

Mayor Bob Filner told a gathering of tourism executives that a joint bid by Tijuana and San Diego for the 2024 Olympics could help bring more visitors to the region and cement ties between the two cities.

More than 20,000 rare and significant materials from Balboa Park museum collections are now freely available to the public to access via Balboa Park Commons, a new online resource that launched Tuesday morning at www.balboaparkcommons.org.

Carlsbad-based Terramar Retail Centers has named the restaurant tenants for the 100,000-square-foot Old Police Headquarters property next to Seaport Village.

San Diego-based Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. has paid a reported $48 million to acquire a 139,314-square-foot grocery and drugstore anchored neighborhood retail center located in Diamond Bar, Calif.

What is now known as the Park Hyatt Aviara Resort in Carlsbad is having difficulties for at least the fourth time since the mid-2000s -- and despite an improving hotel market, it isn’t the only lodging asset in difficult straits.

Escondido-based Realty Income Corp. continued its record-setting ways in the first quarter of 2013.

With the stroke of a pen Thursday, Mayor Bob Filner wrote an end to the hotel marketing dispute that dogged City Hall for the past several months, but he had barely cleared one controversy before stepping into another – a clash with City Attorney Jan Goldsmith over how to handle local medical marijuana dispensaries.

Chefs from Herringbone, The Marine Room, Pacifica Del Mar and more are teaming up for the 2013 Celebrity Chefs Cook Gala benefitting UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.

WINNER: Gaylene Xanthopoulos
President
The Leadership Edge Inc.

Brew pubs and brewers are rapidly emerging as a key growth industry for San Diego County, generating nearly $300 million in direct economic impact, employing more than 1,600 workers and indirectly supporting 1,100 other jobs, according to a recent report released by National University’s Institute for Policy Research.

When taking a break from celebrating Earth Day and Administrative Professionals Day this week, make sure to check out some of these events hosted by the local business community.