Daily Business Report: Friday, Nov. 4, 2022
City of San Diego awarded $2.45 million to help
house people living in street encampments
The State of California last week awarded $2.45 million to the City of San Diego to help unsheltered residents in the East Village neighborhood move from homelessness to safe and stable housing. San Diego was one of eight communities across the state to be awarded a portion of the $48 million Encampment Resolution Funding (ERF) in the latest announcement. Nineteen other communities received ERF grant funds earlier this year. The ERF program is a competitive grant that aims to assist local jurisdictions in ensuring the safety and wellness of people experiencing homelessness in encampments; resolve critical encampment concerns and transition individuals into safe and stable housing; and encourage a data-informed, coordinated approach.
As part of the grant application process, the City of San Diego identified an area located along E Street and 8th and 9th Avenues in East Village where there are known concentrated strings of encampments. The encampments include approximately 50 single adults, with more than half being African American and/or over the age of 55.
Top Photo: Homeless encampments in East Village.
Week of Veterans Day Celebrations
in San Diego Community College District
The San Diego Community College District (SDCCD), San Diego City, Mesa, and Miramar colleges and the College of Continuing Education will honor former and current military service members during the week of Veterans Day from Nov. 7-11, 2022. Career and college transfer days, a veterans reception, and a postcard writing campaign for active military and retired veterans are among the highlights.
San Diego Beer Week kicks off at Surf Sports Park
The 14th annual San Diego Beer Week, presented by the San Diego Brewers Guild, will hold a virtual kick-off toast at all Guild member breweries today at 7 p.m. Guild Fest, the official kick-off event for the celebration of the local independent craft beer industry, is Saturday, Nov. 5 at Surf Sports Park in Del Mar. This will be the first in-person Guild Fest since 2019 when more than 2,000 beer enthusiasts attended.
Guild Fest will include food trucks, as well as live music from Totally 80’s Band and Paging The 90s. The event is for 21-plus only. Parking is available onsite for $12. Designated driver tickets will be sold at the door for $20 as well. The 2022 Guild Fest will be the first to offer a selection of beer alternatives such as wine and kombucha.
Academy of Our Lady of Peace open house on Sunday
The Academy of Our Lady of Peace, the oldest all-girls’ high school in San Diego, will be holding an open house on Sunday, Nov. 6 from 2 to 4 p.m. at 4860 Oregon St., San Diego, 92116. This open house gives an introspective look at the OLP, where upcoming students can deep dive into research & academic rigor, the holistic OLP Pilot Experience, and social and emotional learning at OLP. Families will have the opportunity to choose which conversations between faculty and students they would like to take part in as well as the opportunity to hear from leadership, faculty and staff.
It will also give families the chance to tour OLP’s historic 140-year-old campus, which has dozens of resources and scenic views for the school’s 750 students, faculty, and staff. Some of the campus amenities include a STEM center, a broadcast studio, an outdoor sports court, and an amphitheater.
For more information on OLP and the open house, visit https://aolp.org/admission/openhouse/.
San Diego Squared launches network
to empower STEM talent
San Diego Squared, a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) nonprofit, in partnership with local STEM-focused corporations, announced the launch of a new initiative to empower diverse STEM talent in the San Diego area. Known as “The Talent Diversity Network” (TDN), the network brings together nonprofit organizations, companies, and private donors all collaborating to empower underrepresented talent and create a more diverse STEM workforce in the area.
“TDN is an initiative and industry-driven model composed of employers, community-based organizations, and education partners working together to connect underrepresented undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. students to paid internships and careers in STEM,” said H. Puentes, president and CEO of San Diego Squared. “TDN allows our STEM-driven companies to link to untapped, diverse talent with paid internships.”
Founding partners include Neurocrine Biosciences, Illumina Corporate Foundation, TRACON Pharmaceuticals, JLL West Coast Life Sciences, Mirati Therapeutics, Hologic Inc, Life Sciences Cares San Diego, Bill and Marisa Rastetter, Thomas Daniel, and Faheem and Maria Hasnain.
New $3 million grant will support student
parents at Cal State San Marcos
A new program funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education will support Cal State San Marcos students with young children. CSUSM has received a four-year grant of more than $3 million that will benefit student parents who need child-care assistance to persist and thrive on the path to graduation. The grant was awarded through the Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program within the Department of Education. It will create the CSUSM Child Care Access Program in partnership with the Center for Children and Families on campus. Once the program is fully implemented, it is expected to support about 50 student parents with subsidized child care. The program will be housed in the Division of Student Affairs.
Construction starts on Salk
Neighborhood Park & Joint Use Facility
Construction is underway on the future Salk Neighborhood Park & Joint-Use Facility in Mira Mesa. Mayor Todd Gloria, City Councilmember Chris Cate, San Diego Unified School District Superintendent Lamont Jackson and Board of Education Vice President Sabrina Bazzo joined city staff and residents at a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the highly anticipated project. Developed in partnership with the San Diego Unified School District, the plans for this $11.28 million project will provide an approximately 4.1-acre park, built on approximately 2 acres of city land and 2.1 acres of district land.
Sale and leaseback arranged for
Ionis Pharmaceuticals campus
CBRE has arranged the $258.4 million sale and leaseback of Ionis Pharmaceuticals’ campus, a state-of-the-art life sciences and corporate headquarter campus in North County, to Oxford Properties Group. CBRE’s Matthew Carlson, Hunter Rowe, Todd Tydlaska, and the firm’s Boston Consulting team Anthony Hayes and Jared Pimm represented Ionis, a biotechnology company that specializes in discovering and developing RNA-targeted therapeutics. CBRE’s Debt & Structured Finance team’s James Millonand Zack Holderman provided financing for Oxford. CBRE’S Roger Carlson assisted the sales process with his North County leasing expertise.
Palomar Health partners with Get Well for patient comfort
With the mission of evolving and advancing health care while always delivering an extraordinary patient experience, Palomar Health announces a new partnership with leading patient engagement company, Get Well. Get Well leverages digital engagement technology to enhance the patient experience and provide better outcomes for patients, while also improving health system efficiency. The partnership represents innovation within Palomar Health’s entire health care system and will enhance the patient experience, extending engagement beyond the hospital walls to reach patients when they are at home. Get Well provides an innovative digital patient experience that engages patients across a full episode of care.
Bread & Puppet Theater makes rare appearance
The legendary East Coast-based Bread & Puppet Theater will make a rare appearance in San Diego – believed to be the first time in 50+ years – on Sunday, Nov. 6, at 2 p.m. at the North Park Community Park, 4044 Idaho St. Known for its iconic, street-performance brand of theater (featuring oversized puppets, live music and dance), Bread & Puppet believes that theater is a basic human necessity, like bread. That’s why they bring their free shows to public spaces to share the magic of these shared communal experiences with those who might otherwise not visit a theater. The shows end with the performers and audience sharing B&P’s famous sourdough rye bread.
Applications open for 2026 World Design Capital
World Design Organization (WDO) announced the launch of the World Design Capital 2026 bid process, which marks the 10th biennial designation since the program’s inception. Interested cities from around the globe are invited to mobilize local design stakeholders during the five-month application period in an attempt to create and submit a robust bid showcasing the design merits of their region. The cities San Diego and Tijuana will jointly hold the first binational designation in 2024. For more information about the bidding process, to download the application guide or to learn more about becoming a WDC, visit https://wdo.org/programmes/wdc/becoming-a-wdc/.
Arima Genomics in partnership with Basepair
Arima Genomics Inc., the leader in 3D genomics, announced a new partnership with Basepair to empower scientists with new options for bioinformatic analysis of 3D genomic data. The deal will make the Arima Genomics bioinformatics pipelines more accessible to bench scientists by making it available through a user-friendly interface, decreasing compute time, improving data handling and sharing, and generating easy-to-understand reports. Through this partnership, Arima will enable their customers with an initial integration of the Arima-SV bioinformatics pipeline through a white-labeled web portal powered by the Basepair platform.
USD Nonprofit Institute partners with MUFG
Union Bank program to help needy nonprofits
The Nonprofit Institute at the University of San Diego and MUFG Union Bank Foundation have developed a multiyear partnership to help support nonprofit organizations led by underrepresented groups across the state to help bring about long-lasting and sustainable change and address racial equity. According to research from Echoing Green and Bridgespan, nonprofit groups led by Black and Latino leaders lag behind peers with white leaders in accessing funding for vital services. Issues cited in the research include connections, rapport and reporting. This program hopes to change that by providing participating nonprofits with $10,000, along with support for capacity building through organizational assessments, tailored training and one-on-one coaching.
California team awarded $3 million to uncover
impact of pandemic on preK-12 students
The U.S. Department of Education’s Institute for Education Sciences has awarded a $3 million grant to a research team led by the Public Policy Institute of California, UC Berkeley School of Education, UC San Diego, and California Department of Education to conduct a three-year study of pandemic recovery and equitable outcomes across 1,000 PreK-12 districts in the state. Researchers will study how California’s $4.6 billion pandemic recovery grant program, known as the Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELO) Grant, was used to promote educational recovery from COVID-19 and to address worsening learning gaps and inequities among students. Read more…
