Tour d’Elegance Draws More Than
6,000 Viewers
The San Diego District of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) is celebrating two firsts with the appointment of its new chairperson.
On August 16, Gail Goldberg, planning director for the city of San Diego, was officially welcomed as the first public sector employee and the first woman to chair the San Diego/Tijuana chapter of the ULI. Goldberg is the first woman to be named as chairwoman of the ULI anywhere in the United States.
“Historically, the Urban Land Institute has been a bit of an old boys club,” said outgoing chairman William Tuscher, president of Tuscher Development Enterprises Inc. However, Tuscher noted, most of the San Diego/Tijuana chapter’s members are women.
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Popular Tour:
During the first four days of the Tour d’Elegance Luxury Home Tour and ASID (American Society of Interior Designers) Designer Showcase, Aug. 2 to 5, about 6,400 visited the homes on display.
The tour, sponsored by the Building Industry Association (BIA) of San Diego, is open until Sept. 3 at Cielo in Rancho Santa Fe. The self-guided walking tour is open to the public Tuesday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and closed Mondays except for Labor Day. For more information or to buy advance tickets visit their Web site (www.biasandiego.org).
A portion of the proceeds from the tour will go to various local charities.
All Trussed Up:
DPR Construction Inc. of San Diego recently completed the structural steel framing for the first of three buildings at the Gateway corporate office complex in Chula Vista.
Special truss moment frames were used for the 97,000-square-foot steel frame building for earthquake resistance.
San Diego-based Hope Engineering in collaboration with JD2 Inc., headquartered in Sacramento, designed the unique framing system, which allows for longer beam spans and provides nearly column-free space.
The San Diego office of TKG Consulting Engineers is providing mechanical and electrical engineering and Rick Engineering’s local office is doing the civil engineering.
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Donated Dining:
Bosa Development Corp. of San Diego has donated $210,000 to help create a dining room and daycare center in the Cortez Hill Transitional Housing Facility for homeless women and children.
The city-planned project is a conversion of the vacant Days Inn Motel at the southeast corner of 9th Avenue and Beech Street into a 43- to 47-room facility, accommodating up to 150 people.
Bosa has four residential projects under way or recently completed in Downtown, including Discovery on Cortez Hill.
Ground Breaking:
Pacific Terrace Condominiums was the latest Downtown condominium project to break ground on Aug. 16 on J Street, between 3rd and 4th avenues in the Asian-Pacific Historic District.
About 23 of the 57 units in the six-story Pacific Terrace are still available. The 600 to 1,250 square foot units are priced at below $300,000 for one-bedroom and below $400,000 for two-bedroom units.
The project also will have 6,000 square feet of retail space. San Diego-based Pacific Terrace Development is the developer.
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Awards:
The Santaluz housing development in the San Dieguito River Valley won a Golden Nugget Award from the Pacific Coast Builders Conference for Best Land Plan. The project will include 942 homes and a golf course and is a partnership of Taylor Woodrow Homes in Southern California and DMB Associates of Scottsdale, Ariz.
The city of Oceanside’s Housing & Neighborhood Services Department received a National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials Merit Award for Program Innovation , Resident and Client Services. The city’s First-Home Program, which helps low-income families purchase their first homes, was recognized.
Send residential and commercial real estate news to Mandy Jackson via fax at (858) 571-3628 or via e-mail at mjackson@sdbj.com. Jackson can be reached at (858) 277-6359, Ext. 114.
