The federal government's efforts to stimulate the economy opened doors for construction and environmental work at military installations across the country. And San Diego County received a significant amount of that funding.   

Most public homebuilder stocks have rallied substantially from recent lows, but experts and analysts remain wary, citing a long, tepid housing recovery as well as continued troubles related to impairments and low demand.   

Westfield has put expansions on hold, but plenty of work continues here.
   

Growing up in a military family whose home base was Camp Pendleton, Tee Ness, the president and chief executive officer of Hawthorne CAT, considers himself a native San Diegan.   

A new cruise ship terminal to help service the nearly 1 million yearly passengers who visit San Diego is under construction at the Port of San Diego. The two-story terminal, to be built on Broadway Pier on San Diego Bay, will be 52,000 square feet and have room to accommodate up to 2,600 passengers.   

San Diego residents will soon have more places to slide into sandboxes and toss Frisbees, due to construction of new parks.   

If you commute with any regularity in the central part of the county, it is hard not to run into some sort of construction work on the freeways.   

Among the newest additions to San Diego's skyline is Ten Fifty B, a 23-story affordable housing project owned by Affirmed Housing Group.   

The San Diego retail market continued to worsen during the first half of 2009 as the recession forced many retailers to close their doors or file for bankruptcy. That's the word from CB Richard Ellis, though its latest report adds that hope is not lost.   

The state of California's budget woes are already having an adverse effect on public universities and colleges, but the alumni of San Diego State University are stepping in to help improve the home of the Aztecs.   

The single-family detached home market may tell the tale of what is going on in most of San Diego County's home sales stories, but for the city of San Diego, downtown condos have become the 20-story elephants in the room.   

If you have parked in the structure next to the San Diego Convention Center and new Hilton hotel to either go see a game at Petco Park or to visit the Gaslamp Quarter in the last few years, chances are you may have been late.   

When officials from the city of San Diego and developer Gerding Edlen meet again to talk about a new civic center complex, they'll have a lot to discuss.   

The topic of project labor agreements is sensitive one in the construction industry. It seems to divide union and nonunion contractors, organizations and even public agencies.   

The University of San Diego's new $30.4 million Student Life Pavilion is scheduled to be open at the beginning of the 2009 fall semester, offering students open space for dining and studying, as well as a student radio station, multicultural station, even a grocery market.   

The San Diego Community College District is taking full advantage of funding granted by voters in recent years, building state-of-the-art facilities all over its campuses.   

Fred Howe, president and chief executive officer of MedImpact, told developer Colton Sudberry that he wanted his company's new headquarters to look like nothing else in San Diego.   

Downtown's latest boutique hotel has enjoyed better-than-expected bookings since it opened July 13, nearly one month ahead of schedule.   

Most everyone can agree that the San Diego Convention Center needs to be expanded. The more difficult question is how will it be financed.   

The story of the central county appears to be as much a story about what isn't happening as what is.   

Mention downtown San Diego, and people don't normally think of affordable housing.   

The University of California, San Diego's Sulpizio Family Cardiovascular Center will be the crown jewel of UCSD's Thornton Hospital complex.   

In September, San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders will ask the City Council to approve more funding for a contractor to take bids on the long-proposed downtown library.   

The construction project slated for the south side of Ash Street in the Cortez neighborhood of downtown takes the notion of "mixed-use" seriously.   

Johnson & Jennings General Contracting completed in January the build-out of Woodbury University, School of Architecture at 2212 Main St. in the Logan Heights community of San Diego.   

Contractors have completed the final building in Liberty Station's office district.   

The mood in the local construction sector appears to be a mix of uncertainty and optimism, as expressed by industry leaders during a roundtable discussion hosted by The Daily Transcript.   

Solar technology was the subject of CleanTALK San Diego’s second panel discussion Tuesday.   

If the numbers are any indication, the flow of small business loans designed to fuel economic growth has gone from a standstill to a light trickle in the San Diego region.   

Adapting to recent changes in tax law can help suffering companies survive the recession, said Phil Jelsma of Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps during an Urban Land Institute lunch program Tuesday.   

The North Embarcadero Visionary Plan has many moving parts, and port officials face daunting challenges.   

In the heart of the South Bay, joint venture partners Gilbane Building Co. and SGI Construction Management are providing program and project management services for the Sweetwater Union High School District Prop O Bond Program.   

The massive erosion in the U.S. economy has toppled many of the largest companies and left many others weak and vulnerable.   

For over 50 years, Hawthorne CAT has kept San Diego moving and growing, supplying the building needs for nearly all the area’s freeways, residential and commercial developments. Hawthorne CAT is proud to take part in shaping San Diego (currently ranked the ninth largest city in the U.S.) and supporting contractors with construction equipment sales, rentals, parts and service.   

Hotels, law schools and even multifamily units continue to be built out downtown in a down economy.   

The University of California, San Diego has taken a unique approach to decorating the interior of its new student housing project.   

Construction of the six-story, 170,000-square-foot mixed-use Parkside Apartments in downtown San Diego's East Village, is 70 percent complete.   

The University of California, San Diego will receive $11 million in incentives for the installation of a fuel cell energy generation and storage system through California’s Self-Generation Incentive program.   

Over the past 12 months, construction employment has taken a dip in San Diego, but it is still relatively low when compared to other metropolitan areas in the nation and in California, according to a national analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America.   

Construction of a new 21,000-square-foot shopping center, to be anchored by Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market, is under way in North Park.   

A groundbreaking ceremony took place Wednesday morning to kick off construction of “The Green Build,” an expansion project of Terminal 2 at the San Diego International Airport.   

McCarthy Building Co. has been awarded a $24.3 million contract for the design and construction of a new police substation and student/faculty parking structure at Miramar College.   

A San Diego hotel company is taking over the Heritage Park leasehold Wednesday, and will spend about $13 million in replica buildings and upgrades to the seven existing 1880s and 1890s-vintage Victorians moved to the Old Town site.   

A new downtown courthouse may be moving closer, but in these times the funds could be hijacked.   

Highways, federal buildings and border crossings are only a few of the projects to be built with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Federal stimulus dollars will also give local youth the training and experience necessary to build careers in a variety of fields, including the green industry.   

An ocean research laboratory in La Jolla will receive $102 million for construction of a green building and technologically advanced test tank under the federal economic stimulus package.   

McCarthy Building Companies Inc. has preconstruction efforts under way for the new 382,000-square-foot Scripps Cardiovascular Institute and the adjacent 26,000-square-foot Central Energy Plant on the Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla campus at 9888 Genesee Ave.