Daily Business Report-Dec. 23, 2019
The project is Sharp HealthCare’s largest single investment to date and the South Bay’s first new hospital in more than 40 years.
Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center
to open new hospital tower in January
It will be South Bay’s first new hospital in more than 40 years
Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center will open its new, $244 million hospital tower on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020, moving in the first patients that day.
The 197,000-square-foot tower will add 106 private patient rooms; six large operating rooms, including the South Bay’s only hybrid room, which allows for advanced surgical and imaging procedures in the same room; a panoramic rooftop café and many more services designed to meet the needs of San Diego’s fastest-growing region.
The new tower also includes a sweeping new main entrance and lobby and additional space for support services, including pharmacy and kitchen.
The project is Sharp HealthCare’s largest single investment to date and the South Bay’s first new hospital in more than 40 years. The design-build team for the project included Hensel Phelps, SmithGroupJJR and AVRP Studios.
“Our goal has always been to provide the people of the South Bay with the latest in proven medical technology along with compassionate experts who provide the excellence of care that defines Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center,” says Pablo Velez, PhD, RN, Chief Executive Officer of Sharp Chula Vista. “The opening of the new tower is our way of continuing to ensure that world-class care will always be close to home for the entire community.”
Preceding move-in day will be a community open house on Saturday, Jan. 11, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., featuring behind-the-scenes tours, family activities and more. More information can be found at sharp.com/worldclass.
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San Diego Oasis volunteers bring holiday
cheer to Murdock Elementary School
San Diego Oasis staff and volunteers visited Murdock Elementary School in La Mesa for a special holiday edition of their year-long book distribution efforts. The new and gently used books are provided to elementary school students at schools throughout San Diego County.
The distribution is an extension of nonprofit San Diego Oasis’ popular intergenerational tutoring program that recruits and trains older adults to serve as volunteer literacy tutors to kids struggling with reading.
More than 1,800 books were distributed in one day to more than 600 Murdock Elementary School students in grades K-6.
Donations of new and gently used children’s books as well as funds to purchase new books are currently accepted at the San Diego Oasis Lifelong Learning Center in Grossmont Center shopping mall in La Mesa during normal operating hours. For more information or to donate, call 619-881-6262 or visit www.sandiegooasis.org.
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Airport partners with Ballast Point and Water Works
to brew beer made from purified condensate
Something new is brewing at San Diego International Airport.
San Diego International Airport has partnered with local brewery Ballast Point and industrial water purification company, Water Works Inc., to brew a beer with purified condensate collected through the airport’s water conservation program. The beer, SAN Test Pilot, is on tap at San Diego Ballast Point locations in Little Italy and Miramar as well as Home Brew Mart.
The water for SAN Test Pilot comes from condensate that drips from the bottom of air conditioning units attached to jet bridges. The Airport’s Environmental Affairs team began collecting the dripping condensate in 2014 and currently captures about 100,000 gallons per year from 18 of the most heavily used jet bridges at terminals 1 and 2. The water is used to wash sidewalks, equipment, vehicles and building exteriors in addition to being used in the cooling towers that control the temperature in the terminals.
The Airport Environmental Affairs team reached out to Water Works to purify the water using ozone disinfection and the idea to brew a beer with the water stemmed from both of the organizations’ commitment to sustainability. Ballast Point was approached as they have experimented with water reclamation before, turning reclaimed, purified water into drinkable beer.
“The airport is always striving to enhance our sustainability efforts and find unique ways to use the reclaimed water we capture,” said Kim Becker, President/ CEO of the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority. “This beer reaffirms our commitment to sustainability in a truly fun and innovative way.”
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Water Authority board offers settlement
to end Metropolitan Water District litigation
The San Diego County Water Authority’s Board of Directors announced that it made a comprehensive settlement offer to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California that would conclude every rate case between the two agencies, improve the transparency of MWD’s ratemaking process, and provide $140 million in payments for San Diego County water ratepayers in addition to benefits already secured in court. It also would provide certainty about how much MWD charges to transport the San Diego region’s independent water supplies.
“The Water Authority’s proposal would benefit residents across San Diego County, enhance understanding of how MWD’s rates are set, and provide more opportunities for our agencies to collaborate in ways that would benefit water management across the Southwest,” said Water Authority Board Chair Jim Madaffer.
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Coronado Brewing Company names
James Murray as new CEO
West Coaster
Never ones to rest on their laurels, the team at Coronado Brewing Company is heading into 2020 with a new CEO at the helm and a strategic plan for accelerated growth. Coronado Brewing welcomes James Murray to the team as the company’s new CEO. Murray comes to Coronado with more than 15 years’ experience in craft beverages, most notably, seeing Ballast Point through its meteoric rise, and more recently as chief operating officer of San Diego-based Sol-ti living beverages. “We are thrilled to welcome James to the team,” says Ron Chapman, co-founder, Coronado Brewing Company. “James has tremendous experience scaling operations and growing brands. He is a family man that fits in well with our company culture, and we can’t wait to hit the ground running in 2020.”
Murray comes to Coronado as the company is wrapping up a year of better-than-industry-average growth, heightened brand awareness, and two big wins at the Great American Beer Festival. “I am beyond excited to be part of this team and to continue building on the momentum that’s been established,” said Murray. “Coronado is a family company with an incredible reputation as one of San Diego’s original craft breweries producing world-class beer, and I am looking forward to leading our team into the next chapter of growth. I am passionate about developing people, maximizing efficiencies, and growing companies, and I’m excited about Coronado’s bright future.”
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Maria Nieto Senour re-elected president
of San Diego Community College District board
Longtime educator and public servant Maria Nieto Senour was reelected as president of the San Diego Community College District’s (SDCCD) Board of Trustees at its December 19 organizational meeting. Trustee Senour has served as board president since 2015.
First elected to the board in 1990, Senour is the longest-serving SDCCD trustee and has been reelected to the governing body seven times. She has a doctorate in guidance and counseling and retired in 2014 as a professor in the San Diego State University’s Department of Counseling, where she had worked since 1977, with an emphasis on the Community Based Block Program for multicultural counseling and social justice education.
In addition to Senour’s election, Mary Graham was elected as executive vice president of the board and Chancellor Constance Carroll was appointed secretary. Board members Sean Elo, Craig Milgrim, and Bernie Rhinerson were named vice presidents for specific functions.
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MiraCosta College Board of Trustees elects
Rick Cassar as president, David Broad as VP
Rick Cassar was installed as president and David Broad as vice president of the MiraCosta College Board of Trustees on Dec. 19 during its regularly scheduled board meeting.
Cassar, first elected to the MiraCosta College Board of Trustees in November 2014, resides in Cardiff-by-the-Sea and represents Area 2. Cassar won re-election to the board in November 2018 with 75 percent of the vote.
Throughout his 30-plus-year career as an educator, Cassar has been committed to changing lives through community college education. He grew up in Detroit, Mich., and earned his bachelor of arts degree in psychology and sociology at the University of Michigan, and his master of science in counselor education at San Diego State University. A California resident since 1982, Cassar has worked as a counselor, psychology professor, and department chair at the San Diego Community College District since 1984.
Broad, a retired biotech executive and former general manager of Genentech’s Oceanside location, has represented the northwest Oceanside community on the board since 2010. Broad has served as president of the Board of Trustees for the past four consecutive years and a total of five times during his nine-year tenure. Broad has been involved with MiraCosta since 2001, initially helping set up a biotech-certificate program to train workers for the IDEC/Genentech facility, and then with the MiraCosta College Foundation. After his retirement, Broad became the MiraCosta College Foundation board president and was active in raising money to help students meet their educational goals.
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ALS Association announces
dollar-for-dollar matching donation challenge
The ALS Association Greater San Diego Chapter has announced an anonymous donor in San Diego has pledged up to $50,000 in a matching year-end, donation challenge. This means every dollar donated to the ALS Association Greater San Diego Chapter until Dec. 31 will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $50,000, according to Steve Becvar, executive director, ALS Association Greater San Diego Chapter.
All services for patients and families are provided by the ALS Chapter at no cost, Becvar said. Also, Becvar said medical expenses associated with ALS can cost up to $250,000 annually, depleting families’ life savings. Currently, ALS officials said more than 200 San Diego and Imperial county residents are registered with the local ALS chapter.
Year-end donations can be made online at www.alsasd.org, or mailed to 9929 Hibert St., Suite A, San Diego, 92131. For more information on the December matching challenge, contact Eric Andrews, eandrews@alsasd.org, LeeAnn Casey, lcasey@alsasd.org, or call (858) 271-5547.
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