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The County of San Diego recently completed construction of more than $32 million in improvements to the McClellan-Palomar Airport in Carlsbad. 
In 2005, the city of Escondido received a $945,000 Smart Growth Incentive Program grant from the San Diego Association of Governments to build Maple Street Pedestrian Plaza in downtown Escondido. The original plan turned a two-lane through street into a short two-lane cul-de-sac that would end in a new pedestrian plaza between Grand Avenue and West Valley Parkway. The city matched the grant with $165,000 in gas tax revenues for a total of $1.1 million.
Positive change is under way for the Mission Park area of Escondido, re-creating the once deteriorated, poverty-stricken and overcrowded Elder Place neighborhood into a safer community for working families.
When Carlsbad Unified School District classes let out for summer, construction crews got to work renovating and modernizing schools across the district. The projects are largely being funded by $198 million in Proposition P funds, a bond measure approved by voters in November 2006. An additional $41.2 million is coming from state matching funds and interest, for a total of $239.2 million.
Escondido is set to get its first full-service hotel. Construction of a Marriott Hotel in the heart of the North County city will begin before the end of the year, said Larry Kimball, who represents the project’s developer, Escondido Development LLC.
There are four major projects under way at California State University, San Marcos, designed around making student life richer and safer at the North County campus.
Expect big changes at Scripps Health facilities in the coming years. The private nonprofit health care organization intends to spend $1.475 billion from now until fiscal year 2014 to expand and upgrade its hospitals and technology.
North County residents are used to the occasional percussion boom of exploding ordnance during train exercises at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base. These days, there’s a different boom, one produced by rumbling earthmovers, jackhammers and cement mixers.
One of the largest medical projects in the country is now 50 percent complete, as construction moves forward on Palomar Medical Center West at Palomar Pomerado Hospital.
Despite recent rainfall, water conservation is still a priority for California due to low reserves, increased population and an aging water infrastructure. It is reported that residential San Diegans use an estimated 60 percent of water on their landscape alone, businesses an estimated 40 percent. Therefore, the landscape industry is often criticized for being the biggest culprits of water waste -- but San Diego landscapers are taking seriously the need to conserve water.
The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International has released “Retail Buildings: Standard Methods of Measurement” (ANSI/BOMA Z65.5-2010), a new measurement standard that provides a uniform methodology for computing, communicating and comparing the measurement of shopping centers, providing an unequivocal direct measure of the physical size of the floor area of a retail building. The standard is designed to serve the interests of building owners, managers and occupants as well as facility managers, brokers, appraisers, assessors, lenders, insurers, developers, construction and design professionals and others.
Payment of property taxes is often the largest annual expense for an owner of real property. Savvy real estate investors save money -- and you can too -- by appealing your property tax. Oftentimes, a tax rebate of 20 to 40 percent is possible if the property is assessed over current fair market value, as we have found is often the case for properties purchased in the last 10 years.
Participants in a receivership roundtable said it could be a while before the commercial real estate market finds its floor.
There are telltale signs of an economic downturn, says Kent Williams, senior vice president and managing director of Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services. The price of gasoline jumps. The stock market crashes. Panic ensues.
Michael Wall seems hard-wired for his job as an electrical engineer.
The Daily Transcript presents the 29th edition of Soaring Dimensions. Take a closer look at real estate and construction developments in all regions of the county, plus Temecula and Murrieta.
The Daily Transcript presents its 31st edition of Soaring Dimensions. Take a closer look at real estate and construction developments in all regions of the county, plus special reports on the Port of San Diego, and Temecula and Murrieta.
The Daily Transcript celebrates its 30th edition of Soaring Dimensions. Take a closer look at real estate and construction developments in all regions of the county, plus Temecula and Murrieta.
The Daily Transcript presents the 29th edition of Soaring Dimensions. Take a closer look at real estate and construction developments in all regions of the county, plus Temecula and Murrieta.
The Daily Transcript presents the 28th edition of Soaring Dimensions. Take a closer look at real estate and construction developments in all regions of the county.
The Daily Transcript presents the 27th edition of Soaring Dimensions, featuring in-depth coverage of the county's real estate and construction developments. Organized by region, this special report takes a closer look at local expansion and redevelopment projects, as well as ongoing and new plans.
The Daily Transcript presents the 26th edition of Soaring Dimensions, featuring in-depth coverage of the county's real estate and construction developments. Organized by region, this special report takes a closer look at local expansion and redevelopment projects, as well as ongoing and new plans.
The Daily Transcript presents its 25th edition of Soaring Dimensions, featuring in-depth coverage of the county's real estate and construction developments. Organized by region, this special report takes a closer look at local expansion and redevelopment projects, as well as ongoing and new plans.
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