Daily Business Report — Jan. 31, 2010
Groundbreaking Today for New Emergency and Trauma Center A groundbreaking ceremony will be held at 11 a.m. today for the Conrad Prebys Emergency and Trauma Center at Scripps Mercy Hospital, named after the local developer and philanthropist. Construction of the center at 4077 Fifth Ave. in Hillcrest is expected to be completed by early 2013. [...]
Daily Business Report — Jan. 29, 2010
Cal Western and UCSD Explore Creation of UCSD School of Law Downtown UCSD and California Western School of Law have formed a joint committee made up of faculty and administrators from both institutions to consider an affiliation that may lead to the establishment of a UCSD School of Law in Downtown San Diego. It is envisioned [...]
Daily Business Report — Jan. 28, 2010
Two Prominent S.D. Architecture Firms Announce Merger Two of San Diego’s major architectural firms — Carrier Johnson + CULTURE and Fehlman LaBarre — are merging. The firms have produced such hallmark projects at USD’s Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, the Donald P. Shively Center for Science and Technology, student housing at UCSD, [...]
Daily Business Report — Jan. 27, 2010
SAIC Completes Acquisition of Technology Company Science Applications International Corp. has completed the acquisition of Science, Engineering and Technology Associates Corp. (SET), a privately-owned technology corporation headquartered in Arlington, Va. SET was founded in 2002 by a group of scientists formerly with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The company creates and commercializes information technologies [...]
Daily Business Report — Jan. 26, 2010
Interstate 15 Corridor to Get Smart Systems The federal government has chosen the Interstate 15 corridor as one of two national demonstration projects to receive funding for smart systems that will integrate traffic management techniques in order to fight traffic congestion. The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded $8.7 million in funds to a partnership that [...]
Daily Business Report — Jan. 25, 2010
County’s December Jobless Rate Declines From November Wage, salary employment down 2,500 jobs over the month; 43,100 over the year The unemployment rate in San Diego County was 10.1 percent in December, down from a revised 10.6 percent in November and above the year-ago estimate of 7.5 percent, the California Employment Development Department reported. California’s [...]
Daily Business Report — Jan. 22, 2010
Nonprofits Squeezed for Funds as Service Demands Rise San Diego County nonprofit organizations are suffering a loss of revenues at the same time they are receiving increased demands for service, according to a report by UCSD’s Caster Family Center for Nonprofit Research. The just-published study is titled “Operating in Uncertain Times—How the Current Economic Conditions [...]
Daily Business Report — Jan. 21, 2010
Cubic Subsidiary Leads African Program Cubic Applications Inc., the mission support services subsidiary of Cubic Corp., provide military training and strategic adviser services as a member of the AECOM Corp. team for the Africa Peacekeeping Program (AFRICAP). AECOM is one of four companies to win the five-year AFRICAP contract, which has a maximum value of [...]
Daily Business Report — Jan. 20, 2010
Home sales stay above year-ago levels San Diego County home sales in December increased by 9.8 percent from December 2008 — from 3,325 sales to 3,652, reports MDA DataQuick of San Diego, a real estate information service. The median sales price jumped from $300,000 in December 2008 top $330,000 — a 10 percent increase. DataQuick [...]
Daily Business Report — January 19, 2010
Brookfield Homes’ Lora Heramb Receives Industry Honor Lora Heramb’s professional real estate career spans more than 40 years and she has devoted a significant amount of her time promoting charitable causes. For these and other reasons, Heramb, vice president of sales and marketing for Brookfield Homes, will be inducted Jan. 30 into the San Diego [...]
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