• Bliss With A Boat Slip In Tiburon, $3.85M

    Bliss With A Boat Slip In Tiburon, $3.85M,Philip Ferrato

    Tiburon is no stranger to outstanding mid-century design—like much of California, the 1960s were a boom time there—and this wonderfully restored delta-roofed, canal-front home is a perfect example. Comprehensively reworked over the past four years by Jack Byron and his expert team at Suprstructur, t

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  • Unions’ share of California construction jobs at record low

    Unions’ share of California construction jobs at record low,Jonathan Lansner

    Unions are losing their clout in California’s construction industry.My trusty spreadsheet, filled with numbers from UnionStats.com that track federal labor movement data back to 1983, found 129,800 unionized construction workers across the state last year — the lowest since 2014.Union membership in

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  • A Conversation With SD’s Women Entrepreneurs & Business Leaders

    A Conversation With SD’s Women Entrepreneurs & Business Leaders,Cole Novak

    Fifty of San Diego’s top women founders, CEOs, and CFOs gathered on the lawn at the Fairmont Grand Del Mar on Thursday, March 27 for an evening of wine, local food, and unfiltered conversation about leadership, mentorship, and the messier parts of ambition. Hosted with J.P. Morgan for International

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  • California job creation dropped 81% after pandemic

    California job creation dropped 81% after pandemic,Jonathan Lansner

    California’s economy is suffering an extended pandemic hangover, as statewide job creation cooled 81% after coronavirus upended the business climate.My trusty spreadsheet, looking at state jobs data through February, found that California employers added 340,000 jobs in the last five years to push t

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  • San Diego might be having its slowest year ever for newly built housing

    San Diego might be having its slowest year ever for newly built housing,Phillip Molnar

    San Diego County has shattered construction records over the past few years for apartments.Yet when it comes to finding a newly built home, one that is actually for sale rather than a rental, potential buyers may be shocked just how limited the options are.There were 50 active developments in March

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  • Biohacking 101: Where to Get Wellness Treatments

    Biohacking 101: Where to Get Wellness Treatments,Cole Novak

    The pursuit of optimal health and wellness has been hardwired into human nature long before Herodotus mused about the Fountain of Youth. And while people have been tinkering with their bodies for centuries—mixing potions, creating elixirs, and testing the limits of longevity—modern biohacking takes

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  • 16 Things to Do in San Diego This Weekend: April 2-6

    16 Things to Do in San Diego This Weekend: April 2-6,Cole Novak

    From San Marcos’s free Spring Fling Festival to a full day of country at Boots in the Park, this weekend is fit for festivals galore. San Diego will flex its muscles as the Capital of Craft at the North Park Festival of Beers while local writers can gain insight from dozens of authors at the San Die

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  • Home Tour: Midcentury Craftsman with Views of the City

    Home Tour: Midcentury Craftsman with Views of the City,Cole Novak

    Surrounded by eucalyptus and olive trees at the end of a cul-de-sac is a friendly take on a typically hard-edged style—a midcentury modern home softened by gabled roofs and judicious use of wood and brick, elements more typical of early-20th-century Craftsman houses. It was designed by a physician a

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  • Lilo Ready to Debut in Carlsbad

    Lilo Ready to Debut in Carlsbad,Nicolle Monico

    Hard to overstate it—restaurateur John Resnick and chef Eric Bost have rewritten the book of North County’s food culture. But after fighting to the top, facing headwinds at the apex, losing—then finding—their footing, they’re back, and poised to be better than ever.In a few weeks, they’ll open Lilo,

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  • In Beverly Hills, The Legendary Chimorro House, $22M

    In Beverly Hills, The Legendary Chimorro House, $22M,Philip Ferrato

    We’re not exactly sure who Mrs. Chimorro was (or even her first name) but in 1926 she commissioned this house from Roy Selden Price, one of LA’s most successful architects of the period—referred to in David Gebhard and Robert Winter’s magisterial An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles as “one of

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  • Escondido home development says it is ‘fire resistant.’ Houses cost $1M

    Escondido home development says it is ‘fire resistant.’ Houses cost $1M,Phillip Molnar

    There’s no such thing as a fireproof house, yet, but that hasn’t stopped one builder from trying.Los Angeles-based KB Home unveiled its Dixon Trail development in Escondido this week that it calls “wildfire resistant.” It comes with 10-foot buffers between homes, flame-resistant vents, noncombustibl

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  • Average US rate on a 30-year mortgage dips to 6.65% after rising for 2 weeks

    Average US rate on a 30-year mortgage dips to 6.65% after rising for 2 weeks,Associated Press

    By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business WriterThe average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. fell slightly this week, a welcome reversal for homebuyers in what’s traditionally the housing market’s busiest time of the year.The rate fell to 6.65% from 6.67% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday.

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  • Local developer buys 10-acre, Miramar Road property zoned for housing

    Local developer buys 10-acre, Miramar Road property zoned for housing,Jennifer Van Grove

    A recent transaction involving more than 10 acres of land on Miramar Road newly zoned for housing signals that big change is on the horizon for a major industrial hub.In January, three limited liability companies associated with San Diego-based real estate company Pacifica Companies purchased the pa

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  • Photos: Feeding San Diego’s 2025 Pairings with a Purpose Dinner at Callie

    Photos: Feeding San Diego’s 2025 Pairings with a Purpose Dinner at Callie,Cole Novak

    More than 130 guests filled the dining room at Callie for Feeding San Diego’s second annual Pairings with a Purpose Dinner Party, where chef-owner Travis Swikard served a four-course meal with wine pairings by sommelier Tracy Latimer. The evening raised over $300,000—enough to provide more than 600,

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  • San Diego falls in national home price rankings

    San Diego falls in national home price rankings,Phillip Molnar

    San Diego home price gains slowed to their lowest level in almost two years to start 2025.In January, the San Diego metropolitan area’s home price increased 3.39% annually, said the S&P Case-Shiller Indices report released this week. The highest gains in the 20-city index were in the New York metro

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  • 17 San Diego Nonprofit Events to Attend This April

    17 San Diego Nonprofit Events to Attend This April,Cole Novak

    West Coast Nonprofit Data ConferenceApril 4–5Hosted at the University of San Diego’s Kroc Institute, this academic conference gathers nonprofit scholars to exchange ideas, research, and data-driven strategies. Fine Art and Craft Sale, Union Hall GalleryApril 4–6 & April 11–13Held over two weekends,

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  • 18 San Diego Nonprofit Events to Attend This April

    18 San Diego Nonprofit Events to Attend This April,Cole Novak

    West Coast Nonprofit Data ConferenceApril 4–5Hosted at the University of San Diego’s Kroc Institute, this academic conference gathers nonprofit scholars to exchange ideas, research, and data-driven strategies. Fine Art and Craft Sale, Union Hall GalleryApril 4–6 & April 11–13Held over two weekends,

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  • What’s Next for Downtown San Diego?

    What’s Next for Downtown San Diego?,Cole Novak

    Downtown San Diego is at a crossroads. “The city has a golden opportunity to answer a really important question, which really is the question that every major city in America is wrestlingwith: What is a downtown for in this post-Covid, remote work era?” says Grant Oliphant, CEO of The Conrad Prebys

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  • Where in California do renters stay the longest?

    Where in California do renters stay the longest?,Jon Lansner

    A very tight market for California rentals means tenants move less frequently than the typical U.S. apartment dweller.My trusty spreadsheet looked at a RentCafe scorecard tracking the challenges apartment seekers face in 139 U.S. markets – including 11 in California – as of early 2025. RentCafe’s ma

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  • Midway Rising analysis sheds new light on plan for San Diego’s sports arena site

    Midway Rising analysis sheds new light on plan for San Diego’s sports arena site,Jennifer Van Grove

    The project picked to remake San Diego’s sports arena site is coming into focus with new details on how the addition of thousands of apartments and a replacement arena will change the landscape of the 49-acre site, shift traffic patterns in a congested part of town, and promote biking and walking in

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