Daily Business Report-May 24, 2018
The office features state-of-the-art communication, conferencing and collaboration technology, along with huddle spaces for ideation and team meetings (Photos courtesy of Nortek Security & Control)
Nortek Security & Control
Moves to New Headquarters
for Anticipated Growth
Nortek Security & Control LLC has moved its headquarters to a new, 82,000-square-foot building in the Atlas at Carlsbad complex in Carlsbad, where it operates its research, engineering, product development and executive offices. The company is a leader in smart connected devices and systems for residential smart home, security, access control, AV distribution, and digital health markets.
Company President Mike O’Neal said the property provides a significantly more productive layout and will give NSC the workspace it needs to keep pace with its rapid growth, particularly in the product development, software and engineering groups. Included in the space is a large engineering lab with a wide range of test and development capabilities, featuring wireless communication, video processing and sound management.
“San Diego is an important center for the technologies that are driving all aspects of the smart home, security, IoT, and home automation markets,” said O’Neal. “We are fully committed to the area and are thrilled to be in this exceptional new space.”
The office features state-of-the-art communication, conferencing and collaboration technology, along with huddle spaces for ideation and team meetings. Additionally, the space has a fitness center, outdoor collaboration area and on-site coffee stand.
NSC traces its history back over 50 years with its first location in the San Diego area.
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Region Unites to Oppose $135 Million
Per Year Water Tax Proposal
Business, civic and water industry officials from across San Diego County have joined forces to oppose a proposed $135 million per year tax on drinking water in California that they said would harm ratepayers and likely result in a flood of additional taxes on the state’s most precious natural resource.
During a news conference Wednesday at the County Administration Center, regional leaders offered other funding solutions to improve water quality in poor, rural areas of California without adding another tax burden to residents in one of the nation’s most expensive states.
Encinitas City Councilmember Mark Muir, chair of the San Diego County Water Authority’s Board of Directors and a member of the San Dieguito Water District Board, warned that the current water tax proposal would set a dangerous precedent. “It would be the camel’s nose under the tent; what begins as a modest increase could quickly grow larger and larger as more projects and programs try to get into the tent,” he said. “We’ve already seen proposals in Sacramento that could add more than $15 a month to residential water bills.”
The tax proposal is being advanced through Senate Bill 623 by state Sen. William Monning (Carmel) and a Brown Administration budget trailer bill related to safe drinking water.
Click here for more information about the proposed water tax.
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Air & Space Museum Launches Exhibit
on 100th Anniversary of U.S. Airmail
The San Diego Air & Space Museum’s Library & Archives has launched a stunning new online exhibit commemorating the 100th Anniversary of U.S. Airmail.
On a fog-shrouded May 15, 1918, the first airplane to provide regularly scheduled airmail service in the United States took off from the Potomac Park polo grounds in Washington, D.C., headed to New York City, a 218-mile route. Sponsored by the U.S. Post Office, and personally sent off by President Woodrow Wilson, this has proven to be a most important day in our nation’s history, obviously leading to quicker mail deliveries, but more importantly, eventually also leading to an accelerated growth of aviation in America.
Delivering mail made flying potentially profitable. In time, manufacturers competed to build larger, more capable, faster and safer aircraft to carry the mail, which then led to expanded passenger service, and today’s airlines.
In 1918, the Army Air Service was directed to assume this new role. However, delivering the mail by air was not an easy task. For example, the pilot of the first flight on May 15 got lost, landing in a farmer’s field. Existing aircraft were clearly inadequate for their new role. There were no radios, no existing navigational charts, the aircraft were unproven, with open cockpits, and the initial Army Air Service pilots selected were inexperienced. Pilots were forced to use roadmaps to navigate, typically following railroad tracks or rivers. Consequently, in the early days of airmail service, many pilots lost their lives. Although many of us today do not know of their sacrifice, their contribution impacts our daily lives. Without them, the mail service we enjoy today would not be possible.
San Diego has a close connection to the initiation of airmail service, as the man who was directed to organize the first service was Reuben H. Fleet, founder of Consolidated Aircraft, who relocated his company to San Diego in 1935. At one time, Consolidated, later the Convair Division of General Dynamics, was San Diego’s largest employer. A remarkable accomplishment, Fleet was given only 12 days to find the pilots and the equipment to make the first airmail service possible.
To view the Museum’s new online 100th Anniversary of Airmail exhibit, click here
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Autism Research to Advance
With $3.6 Million Grant
Gavin Rumbaugh of The Scripps Research Institute’s Florida campus, will lead a five-year, $3.6 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to continue studies of abnormal brain circuitry in autism.The grant builds upon previous work from the Rumbaugh lab that uncovered a sensitive period in brain development during which an autism and intellectual disability risk gene called Syngap1 must function properly to promote assembly of circuitry needed for healthy social and cognitive development.
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Salk Appoints Neuroscientist
as Research Professor
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies has appointed neuroscientist Margarita Behrens to the newly created position of research professor, which carries non-tenure faculty status. Behrens, who has been a staff scientist in Salk’s Computational Neurobiology Laboratory (CNL) since 2009, will lead her own research group within the CNL, where she will carry out independent research projects and continue to collaborate on studies with the Institute’s other world-renowned neuroscience faculty.
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Harper Construction Awarded
$36.97 Million Federal Contract
Harper Construction Co. Inc. in San Diego has been awarded a $36.97 million for construction of an aircraft maintenance facility and apron in the south combat aircraft loading area at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma. The facility will consist of four bays and supporting shops, an aircraft maintenance apron to support the adjacent south combat aircraft loading area for both fixed and rotary wing aircraft, the expansion of water, sewer, electrical, and communication utilities, roadways, a wash rack, security fencing, and other infrastructure critical to the mission of the end-user. The project is designed to meet antiterrorism/force protection requirements. Work will be performed in Yuma, Ariz., and is expected to be completed by June 2020.
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Jack Kelly, Irene May-Ling Hutchins Named
Man & Woman of the Year for Nonprofit
Jack Kelly of Sorrento Valley and Dr. Irene May-Ling Hutchins of La Jolla have been named the winners of this year’s Man & Woman of the Year for the Leukemia & Lymphona Society’s San Diego/Hawaii chapter. Kelly raised $93,000 and May-Ling raised $245,000 to support LLS’s goal to find cures for blood cancers and ensure that patients have access to lifesaving treatments.
During a spirited 10-week fundraising period, candidates across the country competed in honor of a local boy or girl who is a blood cancer survivor. Candidates and their campaign teams were judged solely on fundraising success, each dollar counting as one vote.
Kelly accepted his nomination as a LLS Man of the Year candidate in honor of his mother, who is currently battling Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
Hutchins is no stranger to cancer. As an oncology fellow with Scripps Cancer Center, she ran her campaign in honor of the many patients she treats today and for those who have passed.
The national titles will be awarded to the top fundraisers in the country, to be announced this summer.
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Business, Tourism Leaders Support
Initiative to Increase Visitor Tax
sdnews.com
A new citizen’s initiative seeks to ask voters in November to sanction an increase in the city’s transit occupancy tax to fund the convention center expansion, homelessness programs, create new jobs and continue road repaving and other infrastructure improvements. The “Yes! For a Better San Diego” campaign proposes a 42-year increase in the city’s visitor tax that they claim would raise $6.4 billion over the life of the measure: $3.78 billion to expand and update the convention center, $2.02 billion for homeless services and $604 million for street repairs.
Read more…
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Personnel Announcements
Sunrise Management Names
New Director, Regional Manager
San Diego-based Sunrise Management has promoted Peyton C. Hoban to director of its small property division and named Eric Paulin regional manager for that same division.
Previously a regional real estate manager for Sunrise, Hoban now directs Sunrise’s small properties division team – including Paulin – overseeing a portfolio of 81 single- and multifamily properties totaling 688 units throughout Southern California. She also will concentrate on expanding the division comprised of communities with fewer than 22 units.
Prior to joining Sunrise, Hoban was in charge of the operational and financial performance portfolio of San Diego properties as a property manager with San Diego-based Capital Growth Properties Inc. A graduate of San Diego State University, she is a candidate for the Institute of Real Estate Management’s (IREM) CPM designation and holds her paralegal certificate from the University of San Diego.
Paulin was previously a portfolio property manager for San Diego-based Cal-Prop, managing the day-to-day expenses of a 200-unit portfolio. He has worked in the multifamily/residential real estate industry for nearly 20 years, holding positions with The Prescott Companies, SD City Homes and Pasha Corporate Housing.
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Priya Huggett Joins Brixton Capital
as General Counsel
Brixton Capital, a private real estate investment firm headquartered in Solana Beach, has hired Priya Huggett as general counsel. She oversees various legal aspects of Brixton and its affiliates and provides oversight and a legal perspective for the acquisition, leasing and disposition of properties.
Huggett has 20 years of broad-based experience in real estate, including acquisitions, dispositions, development, leasing, finance, and operations covering multifamily, retail, residential, hospitality and office assets.
Before joining Brixton, Huggett held general counsel positions at both Sea Breeze Properties and Kelly Investment Group. Prior to moving into in-house counsel roles, Huggett worked for Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch and Solmon, Ward, Seidenwurm & Smith in the firms’ real estate, corporate and finance practice groups.
Priya is a graduate of the University of British Columbia, Faculty of Law in Vancouver, Canada and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in criminology and political science from Simon Fraser University, also in British Columbia.
