Remodeling and renovations seem to be the name of the game in the local restaurant business, as chefs, entrepreneurs and even large corporations are taking existing spaces and giving it their own style and culture. 
One day last September, about 400 concrete trucks rolled down Imperial Beach Boulevard and Seacoast Drive to pour some 4,000 cubic yards of concrete into the foundation of the new Seacoast Inn. 
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has announced it will bring a second Neighborhood Market storefront to the county, this time in La Mesa. 
Expansion plans at Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas moved forward with the recent groundbreaking of a critical care building, which will more than double the size of the hospital's current emergency department and increase the number of medical-surgical beds by 43 percent. 
Hines, the Houston-based developer, and its joint venture partner comprised of institutional investors advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management, have broken ground on a 13-story, 415,000-square-foot office building, the second office building at La Jolla Commons (pictured above) in San Diego's University Towne Center (UTC) submarket. 
The framing has topped out at the Mesa College Mathematics and Natural Sciences Building located near the campus entry on 7250 Mesa College Drive in San Diego. 
McCarthy Building Companies Inc. has completed construction of the 13,500-square-foot addition to the Scripps Mercy Hospital emergency department and trauma center, in Hillcrest at 4077 Fifth Ave. 
Construction crews on Tuesday lifted 14 concrete panels into place for a three-story, 57,000-square-foot medical office building on the Tri-City Medical Center's campus. 
Eight weeks after a mixed-use complex was denied, the owners of the Fat City/China Camp property have submitted an application to the Centre City Development Corp. for a dual hotel project. 
Construction recently began on a Walmart Neighborhood Market in San Diego — the first of the company’s smaller-sized version of its stores to open in the county. 