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STRUCTURES

This Special Report Supplement is available as a 36-page PDF file here: STRUCTURES

Editor’s Note

Reo Carr

We are now a decade into the 21st century, and despite the many adversities San Diegans have faced since the start of the millennium, we continue to develop and build public and private projects throughout San Diego County. The 2010 edition of Structures is the San Diego Business Journal’s look at some of the notable projects under way in our communities.

Considering the economic times, it is not surprising that many of the projects we report on in this issue of Structures are public projects. That is, projects funded in whole or part by local, regional, state or national public funds.

Among the public projects having the greatest impact, if not the most visibility, is the array of military construction projects under way at almost every military base in the county. From Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in North County, where construction is in progress on housing upgrades and a new hospital, to Naval Air Station, North Island in South County, where construction was just completed on Berth Lima, which provides a mooring site for the third nuclear aircraft carrier to homeport in San Diego. Writer Lou Hirsh provides a countywide overview of military construction projects planned and under way on Page A4.

Despite the lull in corporate convention activity for the past several years, San Diego continues to vie for convention business in this very competitive marketplace. With the competition in mind, the city is now actively exploring financing options for a convention center expansion, which has been approved and is now in the development process as reported by writer Sylvia Tiersten starting on Page A9.

Several notable exceptions to the prominent role public projects are playing in the San Diego region in 2010 are the upgrades to area hotels reported by Emmet Pierce on Page A6 and the expansion of retail development in Barrio Logan and City Heights reported by Marty Graham starting on Page A7. Long ignored by retailers, Barrio Logan is gaining some much-needed retail development, including a new grocery story, while City Heights continues its long-running successful redevelopment efforts with the addition of retailers.

San Diego continues to support some of the most advanced scientific work on the planet, with the Torrey Pines Mesa being the focal point of this ongoing activity. It is fitting then that the same innovative spirit led to the groundbreaking this year of a facility to house the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine. This nearly 150,000-square-foot project now under construction on the Torrey Pines Mesa at a cost of $115 million is financed by a combination of state funds generated by Proposition 71 and private philanthropic support coming from businessman T. Denny Sanford. The story starts on Page A11.

Publishing a special supplement like Structures reflects the contribution of the entire editorial staff of the San Diego Business Journal, along with a number of freelance writers who regularly contribute stories to the paper. Thanks to you our readers for whom all our hard work is intended.

Reo Carr is editor-in-chief of the San Diego Business Journal.

This Special Report Supplement is available as a 36-page PDF file here: STRUCTURES

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