As if buying a new Lexus isn't luxurious enough, one dealership takes the concept to a whole new level. The Centre at Lexus Escondido is morphing into a one-stop shop for everything luxury.

Two North County institutions of higher learning are moving earth and stone, employing sustainable building practices and integrating new technologies in construction projects designed to enhance the educational experience of college students.

The cities and towns of San Diego's North County have taken strongly to the idea of redevelopment, with dozens of affordable housing, infrastructure and beautification projects underway.

When Hollandia Dairy began producing milk in 1950, upwards of 100 dairies in San Diego were doing the same, and 15 to 20 were processing and bottling it, according to General Manager Lee Hodge. Back then, the milkman was more than a mere icon of Americana.

Local health care, city, state and business leaders broke ground on a new state of the art medical office building in July that will provide care to more than 135,000 San Marcos residents. The three-story, 71,000-square-foot facility will house 34 specialty care providers, a four operating room ambulatory surgery center, nuclear medicine and a four-room gastroenterology procedure suite.

Due to low development costs, there hasn’t been a better time in recent years for experienced developers to build new hotels. Interest rates are also some of the lowest in recent memory, but a sluggish economy coupled with cautious lenders has some hospitality projects waiting on the sidelines.

San Diego County's office market north of state Route 52 continues to recover from a surplus of construction during the middle of the last decade and some subareas are faring much better than others.

If you have driven on Interstate 15, it's hard to miss the express lanes in the center that are being expanded to cover a 20-mile stretch between state Route 78 in Escondido and state Route 163 in San Diego.

Following last year's return of about 300,000 square feet of space in San Diego County's estimated 15.7 million-square-foot biotechnology market, conditions appear to be slowly improving.

Landscape architects from across the U.S. got out of their offices and took to the streets Wednesday afternoon to bring awareness to their profession and their work.

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- Exports have been one bright point for the struggling Western lumber industry as homebuilding remains stagnant.

Taking a new approach at raising the visibility of local business, the San Diego Association of Governments has begun a program that will place the area’s disadvantaged business and small business enterprises on a “bench” list, which can be viewed by prime contractors awarded certain SANDAG construction projects.

Escondido-based Echo Pacific Construction Inc. has begun work to modernize North Terrace Elementary School, which sits within Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton but is a part of Oceanside Unified School District.

Builders still can't find the justification to build new industrial space, but new commercial construction is picking up, while nonresidential alterations and additions keep surging ahead in San Diego County.

Through the current and next fiscal years, there are more than $1.7 billion worth of projects to be undertaken by the California Department of Transportation in District 11, that which encompasses San Diego and Imperial Counties.

For Ken Sullivan, it was two hardships that happened at once that motivated him to start RPC Property Tax Advisors, LLC more than 20 years ago. In the late 1980s, as the savings and loans crisis was in full force, Sullivan lost his job at a major local firm where he had been serving as a regional manager. Around the same time, his father passed away. While this would be a challenging time for anyone, it caused Sullivan to reflect upon what he really wanted to achieve professionally.