Daily Business Report-Nov. 4, 2019
West Bernardo Corporate Center
SENTRE acquires
West Bernardo Corporate Center
San Diego-based commercial real estate investment firm SENTRE has acquired West Bernardo Corporate Center, a 60,000-square-foot free standing office building located in Rancho Bernardo. The property was purchased from a private seller for an undisclosed price. SENTRE represented itself as the buyer.
Located at Bernardo Center Drive and Camino del Norte the 82 percent leased office building’s tenants encompass the technology, design, construction and food and beverage industries and include Microchip, Garden Fresh Restaurants and Interior Logic Group.
SENTRE said it will immediately execute a substantive business plan designed to increase curb appeal and tenant experience. These plans include an overall rebrand of the property, improved signage for the building and its four tenants, drought-tolerant landscaping, creation of private outdoor patio spaces for each tenant, and the addition of an art mural and directional signage at primary entrances.
Doug Arthur is president and CEO of SENTRE.
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Upcoming Major Events
at the San Diego Convention Center
Nov. 2-4: JIS Delivery — San Diego, 3,000 attendees.
Nov. 2: San Diego Union-Tribune Successful Aging Expo 2019, 12,000 attendees.
Nov. 9-10: America’s Got Talent Season 15 Auditions, 1,800 attendees.
Nov. 15-18: ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture, 6,000 attendees.
Nov. 23-26: AAR & SBL Annual Joint Meeting, 11,000 attendees.
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SOHO’s Amie Hayes joins
State Endowment Board
Amie Hayes, historic resources specialist with Save Our Heritage Organisation, has been appointed to the California Cultural and Historical Endowment Board (CCHE) by Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins.
The CCHE was established in 2003 and charged with the preservation and protection of the state’s cultural heritage. Funded by the (2002) California Clean Water, Clean Air, Safe Neighborhood Parks, and Coastal Protection Act (Proposition 40), CCHE has awarded nearly 200 grants to help preserve the many historic treasures that are California’s cultural legacy.
Hayes has a master’s degree in Preservation Studies, experience in municipal preservation planning and grants, and the education and experience gained working at SOHO.
She also is an advocate in her Bankers Hill community, and serves on the Uptown Planning board and as SOHO’s representative on the Old Town planning board.
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Uber Eats delivery drone service
launches in San Diego next summer
Uber Eats plans to launch its newest meal-carrying delivery in San Diego’s airspace by summer 2020. The company started testing drone delivery near San Diego State University last year, through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Integration Pilot Program. EDC manages San Diego’s IPP.
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Petco expands international
footprint with new Tijuana store
Petco and Petco México held a grand opening of the first Petco store in Tijuana on Friday. The inauguration is part of Petco’s growing joint venture with Grupo Gigante in Mexico and a direct result of the company’s strongest cross-border effort to date.
Expanding Petco’s international footprint to Tijuana is a significant milestone for the brand and region, given it is the sister city of San Diego, where the Petco brand was first born in 1965.
Petco Tijuana brings the total number of Petco stores in Mexico to 85, with further growth plans on the immediate horizon. Petco Mexicali – the second Petco store in Baja California – will open on Nov. 8, followed by additional store openings across Mexico, expanding to 90 locations by the end of 2019. Growth is expected to maintain momentum throughout 2020 and beyond.
Similar to Petco stores across Mexico, Petco Tijuana features a nutrition-first focus and in-store services like veterinary care, grooming, positive dog training and animal adoption stations. Much of Petco Tijuana’s more than 7,000 products are ordered directly from Petco’s U.S. catalog, but pet parents in Mexico can also choose from a number of high-quality wet and dry dog foods that are developed in-country by Mexican vendors.
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Cubic hosts Unconscious Bias Bus Tour
to raise awareness of diversity and inclusion
Cubic Corporationwelcomed the CEO Action Check Your Blind Spots unconscious bias bus tour on Friday to give its San Diego-based employees an introspective look at the unconscious biases people face in their daily lives. The interactive bus featured innovative tour activities with virtual reality and gaming technology for attendees to better understand different perspectives and experiences.
“I took the pledge with CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion because I believe it is imperative that we strive and work towards creating a diverse and inclusive workforce,” said Bradley H. Feldmann, chairman, president and chief executive officer. “With innovation as the backbone of everything we do at Cubic, we must foster a work environment that is diverse and inclusive in order to drive a culture of innovative thinking.”
The Check Your Blind Spots tour was created by CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion, the largest CEO-driven business commitment to improve diversity and inclusion within the workplace. Cubic is a signatory of the CEO Action coalition.
One of the interactive bus activities included Look Through a Different Lens where participants, through gamification and digital viewfinder, watched an interaction between coworkers setting up a work-related event and then identified moments when unconscious biases were demonstrated.
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San Diego creates first water, sewer
‘capacity bank’ in California
San Diego will create California’s first “capacity bank” for water and sewer, allowing breweries and biotech firms to cheaply buy excess water and sewer capacity from former factories.
The City Council unanimously approved the capacity bank this week, calling it an innovative idea that will create jobs and help the city avoid expensive expansions of its sewer and water infrastructure.
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Navy Capt. Brett Crozier assumes
command of USS Theodore Roosevelt
Navy Capt. Carlos Sardiello turned over the role of commanding officer of the USS Theodore Roosevelt to Capt. Brett Crozier in a change of command ceremony on Nov. 1 on the ship’s flight deck.
Crozier, from Santa Rosa, previously served as the executive officer aboard USS Ronald Reagan before assuming command of the U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge. (He has also made multiple combat deployments in support of U.S. operations including Southern Watch and Iraqi Freedom.
Sardiello assumed command of Theodore Roosevelt in July 2017 and successfully led the crew on a deployment in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel and Operation Inherent Resolve which included over 50,000 miles sailed, and more than one 1,000 combat sorties that dropped 159 weapons on target.
Sardiello is a native of Fremont, and is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, class of 1990. He previously served as the executive officer aboard USS George Washington and commanding officer aboard USS Mount Whitney before taking command of the Coronado-based carrier.
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Fleet Week San Diego returns today
with ship tours, concerts and sporting events
Times of San Diego
Fleet Week San Diego, the city’s annual salute to the world’s largest concentration of naval forces, returns today through Nov. 12 with ship tours, sporting tournaments, concerts and Memorial Day events.
“San Diego is definitely a military town,” said Gordon Rutherford, Fleet Week San Diego president for 2019. “But San Diegans and visitors to our city really don’t often get a chance to meet the people and see the technology they use to defend the United States and our way of life. We’re proud of the work our military men and women perform, and Fleet Week is a great way to honor their service!”
Last year, more than 20,000 people attended Fleet Week festivities, touring the USS Harpers Ferry and Coast Guard Cutter Mellon and learning about Marine Corps combat gear.
Activities begin today with a five-day softball tournament hosted by the San Diego Fleet Week Foundation. The tournament pits teams from local military units and first-responder agencies against one another in friendly competition to highlight the bond that exists between the men and women who serve San Diego and all of America.
