Daily Business Report — March 31, 2011
Torrey Pines Bank Launches Women’s Banking Group Torrey Pines Bank has launched the Women’s Banking Group to address the specific needs of local female business owners, entrepreneurs and others throughout California. The Banking Group is being rolled out initially in San Diego with other markets planned later. The new division will be led by Teofla [...]
Daily Business Report — March 30, 2011
Advisory for Small Business Owners Small business owners with eligible commercial real estate mortgages maturing after Dec. 31, 2012, will be able to secure more stable, long-term financing through the U.S. Small Business Administration’s temporary 504 refinancing program as a result of a change that will be published in The Federal Register by April 6, [...]
Daily Business Report — March 29, 2011
TEAL Electronics Gets $1 Million Order TEAL Electronics of San Diego, a subsidiary of SL Industries Inc., has received a $1 million order from Energy Innovations, also in San Diego, for product designed specifically for the solar power market. “This is the initial order for a new TEAL product in a growing product family for [...]
Daily Business Report — March 28, 2011
Coastal Commission Staff Recommends Approval of Embarcadero Project The staff of the California Coastal Commission has recommended approval of Downtown’s North Embarcadero project, subject to eight special conditions, and the commission is set to hear the proposal at its meeting in Santa Barbara on April 13-14. The $29.6 million project involves a set of public [...]
Daily Business Report — March 25, 2011
What Moves The San Diego Real Estate Market? In 2009, a prominent insurance company started an ad campaign whose message struck a chord with the recession-stricken American public: that despite economic turmoil, there were still going to be graduations, weddings, babies, birthdays and anniversaries. Likewise there will always be someone, somewhere, looking to buy, sell [...]
Daily Business Report — March 24, 2011
Architecture School Swallows Wonder Bread Building The historic Wonder Bread building Downtown is now part of the NewSchool of Architecture and Design. Built in 1924, the 50,000-square-foot structure has been restored for mixed retail and office use, which includes classrooms and labs for the school’s Bachelor of Science in Construction Management and Master of Landscape [...]
Daily Business Report — March 23, 2011
CCDC Buys Property for Affordable Housing Downtown The Centre City Development Corp. has purchased two office buildings on Fifth Avenue in Downtown San Diego for a combined total of $2.42 million and will combine them with a previous land purchase for the development of a 170-unit affordable housing project. The two projects are a 3,500-square-foot [...]
Daily Business Report — March 22, 2011
Apple Inc. Co-Founder to Keynote Conference Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak will keynote the 48th Design Automation Conference (DAC) taking place June 5-10 at the San Diego Convention Center. Wozniak will be interviewed on stage by San Jose Mercury News columnist Mike Cassidy on a variety of topics at 2 p.m. on June 6. The [...]
Daily Business Report — March 21, 2011
Harbor Drive Pedestrian Bridge Opens The Harbor Drive pedestrian bridge at Park Boulevard and Harbor Drive in Downtown San Diego was officially opened to pedestrians on Friday. The bridge, a project of the city Redevelopment Agency, was built to provide safe passing over train and trolley tracks for pedestrians between the waterfront and East Village. [...]
Daily Business Report — March 18, 2011
Energy Tech Acceleration Program Launched A grant program aimed at speeding the advance of clean energy innovation and commercialization has been launched by the U.S. Department of Energy with the support of the von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement at the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering, CONNECT, CleanTECH San Diego, San Diego State [...]
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