Daily Business Report — Sept. 30, 2010
Eran Bermudez Heads La Raza Lawyers Eran Bermudez, an attorney with Best Best & Krieger, has been elected president of the San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association, succeeding her sister, Nadia Bermudez. Eran Bermudez has been an association member since 2007 and was most recently vice president of the board. She was responsible for organizing [...]
Daily Business Report — Sept. 29, 2010
Vantage Pointe Sold for $200 Million Chicago-based Equity Residential has acquired Vantage Pointe, a 40-story apartment high-rise at Ninth Avenue and A Street in Downtown San Diego, for $200 million. The building has 679 apartments, 26,425 square feet of retail space and 968 underground parking spaces. The purchase price values the apartments at about $291,000 [...]
Small Business Workshops — October 2010
SCORE San Diego Small Business Workshops-October 2010 Fees range from $29 to $109 depending on the program. • Oct. 1 – Insurance: What You Need to know – 9 a.m. to noon at SCORE Entrepreneur Center (550 West C St., #550, San Diego 92101; pre-paid registration $49, $59 at the door). • Oct. 2 – [...]
Daily Business Report — Sept. 28, 2010
SDSU’s New Student Housing Proposal San Diego State has released the draft Environmental Impact Report for Plaza Linda Verde, a proposed student housing and retail project on campus that would provide housing for up to 1,600 students and 90,000 square feet of retail space on a site just south of the SDSU Transit Center. If [...]
Daily Business Report — Sept. 27, 2010
Solar Array Turned Live At City College The largest vertical solar array in the United States — it has more than 350 panels on the south façade and roof of the Career Technology Center at San Diego City College — was installed by Sullivan Solar Power. The system is monitored via a Web-based interface that [...]
Daily Business Report — Sept. 24, 2010
Security Business Bank Adds Executives Security Business Bank has hired Michael Peters as executive vice president and Christopher Burt as senior vice president as part of the bank’s North County inland growth strategy. Peters and Burt are founders of Bank of Escondido and have more than 60 years of combined community banking experience. “With their [...]
Daily Business Report — Sept. 23, 2010
Dancing Celebrities What do SDG&E Vice President Eugene “Mitch” Mitchell, gallery owner Alex Salazar and trial attorney John Gomez have in common? They have decided to acquire a skill-set many would shy away from — dancing. All three are competing in a Malashock Thinks You Can Dance celebrity fundraiser on Oct. 9 at the Birch [...]
Daily Business Report — Sept. 22, 2010
SCORE Scores Big With Small Business In the first five months of 2010, SCORE counselors provided more than 7,000 services to San Diego County small businesses and small business entrepreneurs — a 40 percent increase compared to the first five months of 2009 — according to Jack Philbin, president of the nonprofit organization. SCORE San [...]
Daily Business Report — Sept. 21, 2010
Ocean May Yield Cures for Diseases In an effort to tap into the vast potential of the oceans as a source for novel medical treatments, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), a part of the Department of Defense, has awarded San Diego-based Trius Therapeutics Inc. a four-and-a-half year contract worth up to $29.5 million to [...]
Daily Business Report — Sept. 20, 2010
Jobless Rate in August — 10.6 Percent The unemployment rate in the San Diego County was 10.6 percent in August, down from a revised 10.9 percent in July and above the year-ago estimate of 10.3 percent, the state Employment Department reported. California’s unemployment rate for the same period was 12.4 percent. The nation’s jobless rate [...]
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