Daily Business Report: July 28, 2023
Belmont Village La Jolla to open
living lab with UC San Diego
By Kylie Capuano | sdnews.com
Belmont Village La Jolla – a luxury senior living community that boasts coastal views and lavish amenities for its residents – will be opening a first-of-its-kind living lab.
In collaboration with the UC San Diego Center for Healthy Aging and the Stein Institute for Research on Aging, the La Jolla senior living property will add a research center to its extensive list of modern facilities come on Aug. 2.
The inaugural living lab will be run by UC San Diego researchers and faculty and dedicated to bettering the well-being of aging individuals.
“The institute of UC San Diego is very unique in that it draws on multiple disciplines – pharmacology, social science, engineering – to collaborate in unique ways in order to forward research on aging, in particular wellness in older years,” said founder and CEO of Belmont Village Senior Living Patricia Will. “We started planning this with the university prior to even breaking ground on the building.”
The unique location of the lab – being directly located within its targeted research group – came from the idea of a more in-depth and natural approach.
A multitude of research topics is ready to fill the walls of the soon-to-be living lab. UC San Diego researchers plan to utilize the grounds and collaborate with Belmont Village La Jolla residents to explore areas such as sleep, cognitive testing, resilience, and even the possibility of AI aiding elderly individuals.
The grand opening of the living lab will come one year after Belmont Village La Jolla opened its doors.
San Diego Regional Chamber
presents Small Business Awards
The San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce announced the winners of its 2023 Small Business Awards during a Summer Celebration at Snapdragon Stadium in Mission Valley.
The winners:
• San Diego Hunger Coalition: winner of the Community Minded Award recognizing an organization dedicated to helping others or leading an initiative/program focused on making a positive impact in the community.
• The Mopping Duck: Winner of the Customers First Award for exemplary customer service.
• TOOTRIS: Winner of theOutstanding Minority, Woman, or DBE-Owned Business Awardwhich celebrates the success of a small business contributing to the growth and diversity of the San Diego economy.
• EnviroGreen Electronic Recycling: Winner of the Sustainable Business Award, which recognizesa small business’ exemplary efforts to reduce its impact on the local and global environment.
• Workshops for Warriors: Winner of the Exceptional Veteran-Owned Business Award, celebratinga veteran-owned small business that has attained outstanding business achievement in its field.
Ethnic studies professor awarded poet laureate fellowship
Jason Magabo Perez, a Cal State San Marcos ethnic studies professor and the poet laureate of San Diego, has been awarded a $50,000 poet laureate fellowship by the Academy of American Poets.
Perez was announced Tuesday as one of 23 individuals nationally to be named 2023 Poet Laureate Fellows by the AAP, which handed out a total of $1.1 million. They all serve as poets laureate of states, counties and cities across the United States and will be leading public poetry programs in their respective communities in 2023–24.
For his fellowship, Perez, an associate professor and the director of ethnic studies at CSUSM, will help launch a youth empowerment poetry project that includes youth mentorship and workshops on poetry, performance-making, filmmaking and video art. The project will feature collaborations with Pacific Arts Movement, local high school ethnic studies and English teachers, and the development of open-access poetry curricula, grassroots publishing initiatives and a culminating youth poetry summit in San Diego.
Topping out ceremony held for UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest
A celebratory Topping Out ceremony at UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest has marked the approximate halfway point for construction of a new outpatient pavilion, part of the first phase of a comprehensive revitalization project for the medical campus.
The event — held June 23, 2023 — provided an opportunity for UC San Diego Health staff, as well as construction team members, to sign the final steel beam before it was raised 100 feet in the air and placed in the structural frame of the building, forever part of its lifespan.
The 250,000-square-foot outpatient pavilion is anticipated to open in 2025 and will house specialty clinical programs, including oncology, neurosurgery, urology, otolaryngology and orthopedics, as well as ambulatory surgery operating rooms, gastroenterology procedure rooms, advanced imaging, infusion and radiation oncology.
California forbids plans to unmask workers at In-N-Out — and most other workplaces
By Ana B. Ibarra | CalMatters
For at least another year and a half, California employers won’t be able to follow In-N-Out’s lead in banning workers from wearing masks on the job.
The state’s COVID-19 workplace rules protecting workers’ rights to decide for themselves whether to wear face coverings are locked in at least until February 2025 and could be extended.
Those regulations prevented the iconic Irvine-based burger chain from applying its new policy prohibiting workers from wearing face masks in its home state, where it operates about 70 percent of its restaurants.
Instead, In-N-Out’s mask ban will apply to workers at its restaurants in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Texas and Utah. It has a total of 116 locations in those states.
Community newspapers establish content, advertising partnership
In an era of dwindling trust and declining subscriptions, the fate of traditional daily newspapers hangs in the balance.
Now, three local community publishers — San Diego Community Newspaper Group, The Coast News Group and The Coronado News — have formed a story-sharing and advertising partnership that reaches more than 200,000 weekly print readers and more than a quarter million monthly online readers.
From Oceanside to east of downtown San Diego to Coronado, these publishers offer local, regional and national advertisers some of the most affluent households not just in San Diego County but across the country.
Sandy Howe appointed to ATX Board of Directors
SAN DIEGO — ATX Networks, a global leader in broadband access and media distribution solutions, announced the appointment of Sandy Howe to the ATX Board of Directors.
Howe brings extensive experience and deep knowledge of the global communications industry to the board, where she will provide strategic oversight and guidance to ATX’s pursuit of its market objectives.
Howe has held senior executive roles in the communications and media industries, including broadcast, 5G Wireless, IP and fiber networks.
She has served in leadership roles at companies such as ARRIS, Cisco, and Technetix.
Express Dry acquires Escondido industrial building for $4.38 million
ESCONDIDO — JLL announced that Express Dry under the entity Expressunits1449 LLC has acquired a 14,000-square-foot freestanding industrial building located at 1449 Simpson Way in Escondido for $4.38 million. The new building will be used for the company’s expansion in Escondido. JLL’s Chris Baumgart represented the buyer. The seller, Marky Sparky Toys, was represented by San Diego Commercial. “The Escondido submarket of North San Diego County continues to be highly desirable for industrial users with current vacancy around 2.5 percent,” said Baumgart.
Alternative Strategies begins representing Karl Strauss Brewing Company
SAN DIEGO — Alternative Strategies, a marketing agency based in North Park, has started representing Karl Strauss Brewing Company, San Diego’s longest continuously operating post-Prohibition craft beer company. The agency has a portfolio of more than 40 clients in the local food-and-beverage industry, including La Jolla’s Georges at the Coe, Little Italy’s Fisher’s, and Cloak and Petalm North Park’s Louisiana Purchase, and Carlsbad’s Giaola Italian Kitchen and Alejandra’s Fine Mexican Food and Cantina.
Infantino names Crowe PR as agency of record
SAN DIEGO — Crowe PR, a national public relations and digital marketing agency, announced its partnership with Infantino, a global baby and parenting lifestyle brand. Crowe PR will plan and execute Infantino’s public relations and social media influencer marketing strategies, amplifying the company’s intentionally designed, safe and innovative products through targeted media and influencer relations, messaging refinement and thought leadership. Anna Crowe is Crowe PR founder and CEO.
North Island Credit Union provides backpacks to Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego
SAN DIEGO — North Island Credit Union has partnered with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego to make the new school year a little bit easier for hundreds of Club kids and their families. In the third year of the partnership, the credit union recently provided more than 260 backpacks and school supplies to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego as part of its annual Back 2 School Drive. Backpacks were donated by North Island Credit Union, its employees, and members in a July branch drive, with school supplies by the credit union.
Fresh Start Surgical Gifts transforms lives of pediatric patients in Texas
SAN DIEGO — San Diego-based Fresh Start Surgical Gifts, in collaboration with University Health San Antonio, transformed the lives of four children during their inaugural Surgery Weekend last month on Saturday, June 24. Fresh Start was able to fulfill their mission of delivering reconstructive surgeries to pediatric patients and offered many children in need the opportunity to receive essential medical care and experience life-changing surgeries.
Blanchard partners with OpenSesame
SAN DIEGO — Blanchard, a global pioneer in leadership development, consulting, and coaching for more than 40 years, announced a partnership with OpenSesame, a leading SaaS global eLearning innovator, to include hundreds of Blanchard’s digital assets, videos, and microlearning on OpenSesame’s expansive and comprehensive catalog of eLearning courses. Using OpenSesame’s award-winning technology, Blanchard extends access to their world-class leadership development content in a flexible, self-paced format.
AVID announces new initiative to help students with critical thinking, writing skills
SAN DIEGO — AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination), a national nonprofit that supports over 100,000 educators and millions of students across more than 8,000 schools annually to prepare students for postsecondary success, announced a new initiative that will leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to help students across the country strengthen their critical thinking and writing skills. The effort will provide AVID Elective teachers for grades 9-10 and AVID Excel Elective teachers for grades 7-8 with free access to a unique AI-enabled coach that offers real-time feedback and support to help students.
WD-40 Brand launches WD-40 Precision Pen
SAN DIEGO — WD-40 Brand has introduced its newest product innovation — the WD-40 Precision Pen. The WD-40 Precision Pen is compact and portable, and engineered to deliver the WD-40 Multi-Use Product — the Original WD-40 Formula — with pinpoint precision. Ideally suited for tight spaces on projects of all sizes, the WD-40 Precision Pen is designed for use at home, on the job, in workshops, or for exploring new frontiers, and is a direct response from feedback received by end users. The WD-40 Precision Pen is now available for purchase on Amazon and will soon be available for purchase at leading retailers nationwide.
Dalrado subsidiary licenses intellectual property to Pando Infrastructure
SAN DIEGO —Dalrada Corporation an innovative company focused on global transformative environmental advancements to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change, announced that its energy subsidiary, Dalrada Energy Services, has licensed its intellectual property and sustainable energy technical knowledge to Pando Infrastructure. In a move further expanding Dalrada’s energy sustainability efforts, the company approved Pando’s acquisition of specific assets pertaining to the right of sales including intellectual property, methods of implementation, and fulfillment of current and future project opportunities.
Manscaped introduces The Handyman compact electric face shaver
SAN DIEGO — Manscaped, the global men’s grooming company and leading lifestyle consumer brand, announces the launch of its latest innovation, The Handyman, a compact electric face shaver. Equipped with a sleek magnetic blade cover and thoughtfully designed to be portable, quick-charging, and waterproof, this revolutionary, travel-friendly device is your new go-to gadget for trimming, styling, and touch-ups. Priced at $79.99, The Handyman is now available for purchase on manscaped.com and Amazon \in the United States, Canada, Europe, the United Kingdom, and Australia,.
