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Old Posted Apr 14, 2014, 2:27 AM
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HARRAH’S RESORT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RENOVATIONS
By Neda Iranpour
Story Published: Apr 4, 2014 at 11:20 PM PDT
Story Updated: Apr 4, 2014 at 11:20 PM PDT

San Diego - After two years of planning, Harrah’s Resort Southern California is now celebrating their newly renovated casino and brand new tower. This makes the Valley Center resort the fourth largest hotel property in the county.

The lazy river and pool complex with a swim up bar was the first part of their expansion last summer which likely led to a boost in business. Darrell Pilant, the Vice-President of Operations and Marketing said “the demand is already significantly above what we thought it would be for the new resort.”

Now, there's more. Just as spring begins, Harrah’s unveils their latest renovation - A 21-story, 403-room hotel tower.

Pilant says “they're going to accept a level of service and attention that they’re not used to getting in the casino industry.”

With the intention of separating themselves from the rest of California casinos, the 12-year-old Harrah's put in a whopping $160-million to recreate their reservation, owned by the Rincon Band of Luiseno Indians, managed by a Ceasar’s license company.
http://www.sandiego6.com/news/local/...254002381.html
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The Outlets At The Border offers an unprecedented opportunity as the only available location for you to be part of this dynamic outlet retail area.

Scheduled for completion October 2014, The Outlets At The Border is a 140,000 square foot center located at – the world’s busiest border crossing. With exposure to over 100 million people annually, this beautifully designed project will take advantage of $600 million border expansion scheduled to bring pedestrian and vehicle traffic directly into the project.
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Old Posted May 5, 2014, 2:27 PM
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SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment is ready for Summer with new rides and attractions for the Entire Family

Shamu's Celebration: Light Up The Night is the new nighttime Shamu Show debuting at all three SeaWorld parks this summer. The show will include new, original music and production elements, as well as new killer whale behaviors.

SeaWorld San Diego will celebrate 50 years by completely transforming the park's arrival experience. Explorer's Reef ™ will open in March for the celebration kick-off, and immediately immerse park guests into an undersea oasis. From the moment they enter the park, guests can connect with the sea through multiple touch pools featuring shark pups, rays, skates and delicate little cleaner fish.
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Grand Opening Set for New Waterfront Park

The new public outdoor space will be located on Pacific Highway and Harbor Drive, between Grape and Ash streets

Come Saturday, San Diegans will have a new place to play – with a waterfront view, to boot.

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors will celebrate the grand opening of the region’s largest and free Waterfront Park with a party to showcase the brand-new public outdoor space located at 1600 Pacific Highway and Harbor Drive, between Grape and Ash streets, in downtown San Diego’s picturesque Embarcadero area.
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Old Posted May 27, 2014, 3:37 AM
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San Diego zoo's new tiger enclosure brings big cats closer to fans
By Tony Perry

The park has had Sumatran tigers since the late 1970s.

However, to get a glimpse of the tigers, a visitor had to be lucky and hope that the animals were not hiding in the bush when the visitors' tram passed overhead.

Over the Memorial Day weekend all that changed with the opening of new digs for the park's six Sumatrans. The 5.2-acre Tull Family Tiger Trail cost $19.5 million and was 14 months in the making.

Visitors can now get within inches of the tigers — thanks to tempered glass and other safety features.

Children can play tug-a-war with a tiger, with the animal grasping a rope in its teeth and the child, safe behind the glass, grabbing the rope by hand. A children's play area has a log step, rope climbs and a slide, part of a simulated logging camp (rampant logging is destroying the tigers' habitat in their homeland).

The modern visitor to zoos and animal parks demands a close-up view of the animals. Numerous projects — like the new Rainforest of the Americas at the Los Angeles Zoo — are determined to provide that immediacy.

Safari Park keepers hope the new Tiger Trail will lead to greater public support for conservation projects aimed at forestalling the decline of the Sumatran tiger, considered the most endangered of six subspecies of tigers.
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Old Posted May 30, 2014, 9:57 PM
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There has to be a better way to fund civic amenities like this. A hole in the ground surrounded by a construction fence is no way to draw shoppers to Horton Plaza.

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http://voiceofsandiego.org/2014/05/2...proved-faster/

Can't argue with statistics, but what's the trade-off?
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Zephyr Partners' $250m project marks further reboot of eastward downtown growth

Ambitious project for a local developer. Just bought the block between 7th and 8th, bounded by C and Broadway. Hoping this pans out.



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SeaWorld announces Blue World Project transforming and expanding theme park habitats for killer whales

Today SeaWorld has announced plans to build new, far larger killer whale environments at all three SeaWorld parks, the first of which will open in SeaWorld San Diego in 2018 with others to follow in Orlando and San Antonio.

These new habitats will have a maximum depth of 50 feet, surface area of nearly 1.5 acres and spanning more than 350 feet in length, offering the whales more room to swim.
http://www.insidethemagic.net/2014/0...killer-whales/
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New lanes ease wait times at border

What made it possible was the reopening of seven inspection lanes — and the completion of a key phase in the $741 million reconstruction of the massive port, the busiest on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The expanded capacity in the primary inspection lanes means that U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency charged with operating the port of entry, now has at its disposal 25 rebuilt inspection lanes with total of 46 booths. And that’s just the beginning: By January 2018, the port is expected to grow to 34 lanes with 63 booths.

The ripple effects of shorter lines at the San Ysidro Port of Entry are likely to reach deep into the economic, social and cultural life of both of Baja California and San Diego. A 2007 study by San Diego Association of Governments found inadequate infrastructure at ports of entry on the California-Mexico border cost the U.S. and Mexican economies $7.2 billion and 62,000 jobs.
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San Diego Zoo building new exhibit for Asian leopards

The San Diego Zoo this week began construction of a new habitat area for critically endangered Asian leopards.

The area, set for completion by next Memorial Day, will accomodate the zoo's two male Amur leopards and two female snow leopards. The two species do not mix and will be separated.

Once the 16,500-square-foot space is completed, the zoo will consider bringing leopards from other locations for a breeding program with the Amur and snow leopards. A breeding program is underway for lions and tigers at the zoo's Safari Park and is being planned for jaguars at the zoo.

Included in the exhibit will be a space for mothers and newborns, with a glass viewing area for guests, zoo officials said.

More than 1,000 donors contributed $3 million for construction of the large-cat exhibit. The animals are currently in smaller spaces that have been upgraded.

The Amur leopard is considered the most endangered big cat in the world, with only 40 still roaming southern Russia and northern China.

An estimated 7,000 snow leopards remain in the mountains of central Asia, including Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Mongolia, Tibet and Bhutan. The snow leopard is the national heritage animal of Pakistan.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...011-story.html

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Can SD be a mecca for cycling tourists?

Year-round warm weather, blended with panoramic ocean vistas and a growing network of bicycle paths, would seem the perfect amalgam for transforming San Diego into a magnet for bike-riding tourists. So why is San Diego not more widely known as a premier cycling destination?

While some progress has been made in getting the word out, local biking advocates and businesses that cater to cyclists are hoping that a national bike tourism conference here this week will help raise the county’s profile as a dream vacation spot for both casual riders and serious cycling enthusiasts.
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Old Posted Dec 2, 2014, 10:32 PM
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San Diego biotechs dominate innovation list
Local products grab 5 of top 10 spots, Edico Genome gets first place

San Diego's reputation as a biotech innovation leader has received a ringing endorsement from The Scientist, a highly regarded life science magazine.

Five of the magazine's top 10 innovations for 2014 -- including the first-place product -- came from San Diego companies. And four of them came from the fast-growing field of genomics, where San Diego dominates.

La Jolla's Edico Genome took first place for its Dragen Bio-IT Processor. The add-on card accelerates the analysis of genomic data by a factor of 30, says Pieter van Rooyen, Edico's president and chief executive. It can be installed in a standard computer server.
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Old Posted Dec 9, 2014, 4:19 AM
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San Diego's waterfront makeover is heavy on public space

"Today, San Diego gets the embarcadero it deserves," Mayor Kevin Faulconer said at a festive event last month to publicly unveil the $31.1-million project along Harbor Drive from Navy Pier to B Street, at the foot of Broadway.

"We persevered," Faulconer said. "Now we have a showpiece to demonstrate that it can be done."

The North Embarcadero Visionary Plan was discussed, planned and fought over for 20 years before construction began three years ago.

The site now provides the perfect San Diego Bay backdrop for selfies and marriage proposals, said former Port Commission member Michael McDade, a leader in bringing the project to fruition.

For the waterfront, the current project is just phase one, although yet to be found is money for additional phases that would further reduce traffic, expand walkways and reduce view blockage.

In Balboa Park, parking places were removed to create a plaza near the Old Globe theater, the Museum of Art and the El Prado restaurant and close to the Spreckels Organ Pavilion and the Japanese Friendship Garden.

At the downtown Horton Plaza Park, in front of the shopping mall, the century-old park is being tripled in size to 37,000 square feet to include additional grass, trees, benches and food vendors. The building that once housed Planet Hollywood has been torn down to make room.

The shopping mall operator has promised to provide 200 events a year with private funding, including a farmers market and concerts, a process called "activating the space" in planner-ese.

The county government this year finished a $49-million linear park along inland Harbor Drive, with greenery, wading pools and fountains. The park is 16 acres, including eight that were once parking lots. To offset the parking loss, the county broke ground last week on a multistory parking structure several blocks inland.
http://www.latimes.com/local/califor...209-story.html

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Giant Ferris wheels proposed on bay

A 400-foot Ferris wheel, complete with a light show and museum exhibits, would be downtown's next big attraction if proposers of the Skywheel at Discovery Point get the nod from the San Diego Unified Port District.




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Cross-border airport bridge set to open in 2015
Facility to connect Tijuana's airport with Otay Mesa
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Comic-Con badges sell out in record time

It was yet another rapid sell-out Saturday morning for coveted Comic-Con badges, but this year it happened in record time -- in just one hour.

That's 30 minutes faster than last year's sellout for the four-day pop culture extravaganza, which this year will be coming to the San Diego Convention Center July 9 - 12. The always sold-out event draws some 130,000 attendees from around the world, including top Hollywood film and TV producers and major celebrities.
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Dense One Paseo project OK'd

In addition to providing needed middle class housing near some of the city’s most prominent employment areas, One Paseo would create 1,600 permanent jobs — injecting $154 million per year into the local economy — and an additional 3,800 construction jobs over the next few years, Escobar-Eck said.

The project’s 608 condos would also boost property tax revenue and the 198,000 square feet of retail space would increase sales tax revenue.

During Monday’s hearing, the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce endorsed the $750 million project as an economic boost, and Circulate San Diego said it dovetails with the dense housing called for in the city’s proposed climate action plan.

Other supporters said One Paseo would provide Carmel Valley the community nexus it lacks while also helping to fill glaring voids for mid-priced housing, shops and restaurants.

Some also said One Paseo, which will include a cinema and 10 acres of open space, exemplifies the kind of lifestyle preferred by today’s young and successful workforce.
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A $31 million investment is remaking the Port of San Diego into tourist attraction

What the Tourism Authority calls $31.1 million in Port of San Diego improvements felt like much more during a weekend trip in late February with a friend. I saw the beginnings of the transformation during a trip with my wife back in May 2013, but two years later, the metamorphosis is truly remarkable.
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