The San Diego Daily Transcript is San Diego’s only information company offering business news, data and resources daily and hourly. We report on San Diego business, finance and the San Diego economy, real estate, construction, the U.S. military in San Diego, and San Diego government construction bids. |
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Hotel Week, organized by firm New Marketing Online, is looking to replicate the success of San Diego’s Restaurant Week by attracting both locals and out-of-towners with discounts and deals. It has legs, and it makes sense,” said Joe Terzi, president and CEO of the San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau. As of August, demand in San Diego was down 8 percent and occupancy levels were down 11.4 percent to 66 percent, according to data from Smith Travel Research.
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Links to yesterday's stories. 20091104tra · Real Estate Briefs - Warehouse on Hancock Street sold 20091104tw · Leasing Notes - Cavignac leases in BofA Tower 20091104tzb · Commentary - Who are you calling 'extremist'?
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The Downtown San Diego Partnership will honor one of the founders of Comic-Con at its annual Alonzo Awards dinner Wednesday night. In addition to Dorf and other members of the Comic-Con team, the Downtown Partnership plans to honor San Diego City Councilman Kevin Faulconer with the President’s Award for his advocacy for both the residential and business community of downtown San Diego. The President’s Award is presented at the discretion of the Downtown San Diego Partnership president in ...
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Abrams is the president and chief executive officer of GMI, a San Diego company that provides security, janitorial and construction services to industrial, retail, residential and other buildings around Southern California. [IMAGE=Larry-Abrams_4.jpg WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=251 ALIGN=left CAPTION=Larry Abrams is the president and chief executive officer of GMI. Larry Abrams' father, Murray bought the company in 1972, shortly after the family moved to San Diego from Connecticut.
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The Film Commission becomes the concierge to this business giving filmmakers brochures, lists of restaurants, hotels listed on our Web site and other information about entertainment. Several years ago when "Sideways" was filming in San Diego with their feature film about the wine culture, the crew, producer and some of the talent went to the Blue Point restaurant owned by the Cohns in the Gaslamp with the San Diego Film Commission's director of features, Kathy McCurdy. When the CBS ...
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Most everyone can agree that the San Diego Convention Center needs to be expanded. The task force has reviewed 10-12 financing options available, looking at how other regions funded their convention centers. The Center City Development Corp., whose district borders the convention center, could be asked to contribute to an expansion.
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Both are thrilled by the possibilities of 3-D and plan to convert their biggest hits, "Titanic" and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, into the format. "There will be a lot more 3-D screens when they know the 'Lord of the Rings' films are going to be available," Cameron said. Jackson is developing a "King Kong" attraction for Universal theme parks that surrounds visitors with 3-D images and effects.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- When James Cameron directed his first 3-D film, "Terminator 2: 3-D," for Universal Studios theme parks more than a decade ago, the bulky camera equipment made some shots awkward or impossible. "Avatar" also raises the bar on "performance capture" technology, which creates computerized images from real human action. In some of the "Avatar" footage released at Comic-Con, humans filmed with his 3-D camera rig are mixed with the computer-generated images of the movie's avatars ...
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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- James Cameron originally wrote "Avatar" as a way to challenge the special-effects firm Digital Domain, where he served as chief executive. Sam Worthington plays Jake Sully, a soldier on duty there, and Zoe Saldana plays Neytiri, the Navi princess who befriends him. Saldana learned the fictional Navi language and studied with a dialect coach to perfect a Navi accent on her English.
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They wore homemade T-shirts, made friends with fellow fans and talked about their allegiance to Team Edward or Team Jacob. They are the "Twilight" fangirls, and they came to Comic Con by the thousands to see the movie's stars in person at a panel Thursday for the film's sequel. Director Chris Weitz was joined by Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart and Ashley Greene.
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