This summer, volunteers from the San Diego Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) worked on renovating a building that is not their own. On Saturday, July 26, BOMA members and colleagues gave the San Diego Youth and Community Service's (SDYCS) Youth Education Town facility a much-needed facelift - from the inside out - dedicating labor and supplies to extensive landscaping, painting, cleaning and various repairs as the group's Summer Work Project. They give special thanks to Frazee Paint for donating the needed supplies for this project.

Move-in-ready office suites up to 42,000 rentable square feet are now available at Legacy Wateridge. The two-building corporate office project is located on 9.54 acres at 10421 and 10431 Wateridge Circle within the Sorrento Mesa master-planned Wateridge Business Park in San Diego (92121).

School may be out for the summer, but remodeling of educational facilities is in, as an estimated $20 billion in such projects is now underway nationwide.

California is one of the most active states in the country for commercial real estate. It's also one of the most highly regulated. Each year, BOMA San Diego follows and informs its membership about important legislation that can dramatically impact the commercial real estate industry, for better or worse.

Living up to its reputation for innovative thinking, expert guidance and superior results in commercial tenant improvements, Prevost Construction recently completed a $1.5 million industrial remodel for a state-of-the-art clean room area at the headquarters of Bekaert Specialty Films in San Diego.

Commercial real estate is one of today's hottest career choices. Responding to a growing demand for new talent, real estate companies are now hiring for the medium-to-long term, giving you the opportunity to not only build a rewarding career, but also a career that can last you a lifetime. And with a variety of positions to choose from, commercial real estate companies are putting heavy emphasis on positions that enhance the core value of their operations, such as building ownership, property management, asset/portfolio management, leasing and appraisal, while also having a significant demand for acquisitions functions.

The answer to the question posed above is a resounding "it depends."

Once upon a time, "green" building practices, like green cleaning, were for cutting edge first adopters and dyed in the wool of environmentalists. But today, more and more people are beginning to realize that sustainable building maintenance practices are not only good for the planet, they are good for building occupants and the bottom line.

Kurtis Pitts is a knowledgeable general contractor with decades of experience and a very interesting conversationalist, but most homeowners and property managers would still not want to meet him -- in a professional capacity.