downtown-san-diego-real-estate/financial-crisis-what-lies-ahead-in-2009/261/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV5FxW8Aw6Q Dr. Sherry Cooper from BMO Financial Group was interviewed by the Associated Press on October 8th, 2008. The clip is entitled “The Financial Crisis: What lies ahead in 2009?” In this video, Dr. Cooper provides an general overview of some general steps that the Federal Government must take to correct the current financial Continue…
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video/blue-angels-friday-performance-at-marine-corps-air-station-miramar/260/ Check out a 59 second video of the Blue Angels’ Friday October 3rd performance at that Miramar Airshow. Pretty amazing stuff! Special thanks to Jeff Dillon for posting this in the community content section of SignOnSanDiego.com. -Pete Thistle, [email protected]
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/a-look-inside-downtown-san-diegos-north-embarcadero-visionary-plan/259/ According to SignOnSanDiego.com, “Officials have approved the first phase of a plan for redesigned streets, landscaping, lighting and public amenities along North Harbor Drive. The first phase is expected to cost $28 million, with the overall plan costing $200 million.” For the full story, read Jeanette Steele’s San Diego Union Tribune article written on Continue…
Downtown San Diego…Just A Bunch of Buildings
By Pete in October 2008 with 0 Comments
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/downtown-san-diegojust-a-bunch-of-buildings/258/ A person at a get together recently made the comment to me that Downtown San Diego was “just a bunch of buildings”. He said it with a smug look on his face. He went on to say that there weren’t any lights on in the buildings and it’s just a collapsing market with a Continue…
Convention Center Expansion
By Pete in October 2008 with 0 Comments
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/convention-center-expansion/257/ Just South of the existing Convention Center is a big patch of dirt. On one side is the San Diego Convention Center. On the other side is the Embarcadero Marina Park South that features basketball courts, the Summer Pops and Joe’s Crab Shack. The big patch of dirt in between is not a serene, Continue…
Urban Discovery Academy
By Pete in October 2008 with 0 Comments
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/urban-discovery-academy/255/ With more and more families popping up in the urban Downtown San Diego neighborhoods of the East Village, Little Italy, Cortez Hill etc. The question comes up- where will kids go to school? A new option has emerged. The new Urban Discovery Academy is in full session in Downtown San Diego. With small classroom Continue…
San Diego Deemed Undervalued!
By Pete in September 2008 with 0 Comments
downtown-san-diego-real-estate-market-analysis/san-diego-deemed-undervalued/256/ In today’s Union Tribune the article states that three years ago, San Diego was one of the most overvalued markets by 39%. Three years later, with the distressed property market on the rise, San Diego is now considered one of these most undervalued markets in the nation. A market is deemed undervalued when it Continue…
Selecting Your Listing Team
By Pete in September 2008 with 0 Comments
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/selecting-your-listing-team/251/ It occurred to me recently that while showing a number of properties in my Downtown San Diego Neighborhood that the listing agents of these properties were not from the Downtown San Diego Neighborhood. So, when asked specific questions regarding the properties there wasn’t a direct answer but a hesitation, and “I don’t know but Continue…
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/a-new-city-hall/249/ There are quite a few things on the table for the City of San Diego’s Downtown when it comes to redevelopment. In today’s Union Tribune article there is a rendering for the proposed new City Hall. Gerding Edlen (Top Photo) of Portland, Oregon, known as a cutting edge developer because of being “green”, may Continue…
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/thoughts-from-both-sides-on-the-possibility-of-the-football-stadium-in-downtown/248/ As you have read in previous blogs on our site, there is a proposal for a deck to be built and house convention center space, as well as a new stadium for the San Diego Chargers. It will also be a stadium that could hold a World Cup event, Olympic events and a great Continue…
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/la-times-east-village-neighborhood-downtown-san-diegos-own-soho/253/ As a Specialist in the Downtown San Diego Neighborhoods, we often get asked by authors of various news resources to comment and provide information for their articles. As long as we dont get misquoted, this is one of the fun parts of the job. Some say it is promotion, but I hope you know Continue…
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/festival-of-sails/250/ If you looked from your balcony at the Grande at Santa Fe Place you may have thought you were suddenly transported back in time to a Carribean port of call. That the rum runners had come into town to spend a few nights of partying before setting sail to another adventure on the high Continue…
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/san-diego-urban-trees/243/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZEx1fb43oE Strolling along the North Embarcadero Water Front is one of the most relaxing and enjoyable things to do while in Downtown San Diego. This stretch of walking path extends all the way up to Harbor and Shelter Islands. On the half mile stretch of Harbor Blvd. between The Cruise Ship Terminal and Hawthorne Continue…
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/scooters-cupcakes-and-roof-top-bars/241/ Urban Living lends itself to being on the cutting edge of what is new and “in” and hip and cool and every other adjective to describe the latest trend in fashion, food, transportation and nightlife. I think it was 1984 when I last saw a Vespa. Now I see them everywhere in Downtown San Continue…
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/downtown-stadium-development/247/ NFL, NBA, NHL, even the Olympics in Downtown San Diego? Well, that is the proposal, and it is a big one at roughly a proposed $2 billion. Check out the Article entitled Developers: Terminal deck could solve woes The site is the 10th Ave. Marine Terminal just south east of the San Diego Convention Continue…
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/then-and-now-the-tale-of-fahrenheit/239/ In September of 2004 the East Villages’ own Fahrenheit was featured on the cover of a CNN Money article online. It wrote about the gentrification of downtown areas across the country and how it is a good thing. Something you rarely hear in the news today. Gentrification is often associated with a negative tone Continue…
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/the-state-of-real-estate-financing/245/ Financing continues to be a challenge in todays Real Estate Market. We see that the conditions and documentation that underwriters have been asking for is getting more and more rigid. As real estate brokers, we try to get investors to consider equally the two sides of the deal. Most of the time, we cant Continue…
SD Relay For Life
By Pete in August 2008 with 0 Comments
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/sd-relay-for-life/240/ On the morning of April 25th, 2007 I received a call from my mother. I knew what she was going to say and had braced myself for it but no amount of preparing or knowing can ever prevent the gut wrenching feeling you get when you hear this come from the other end of Continue…
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/port-of-san-diego-public-art-video/244/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR7vb7dUUYI Check out this short video of the Public Urban Art in San Diego. All along the waterfront, it is hard not to spot all the unique and colorful art and sculpture pieces. They are hard to miss with all the enhanced shapes, colors, and urban themes. These art projects are designed to enhance Continue…
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/marina-district-luxury-living-holding-its-value/238/ A lot of discussion these days is about the market “tanking” and all Real Estate Sales ”going into the dumps”. We believe that you can’t blanket the entire 92101 with a “market trend”. We have the numbers to prove it. Cynics, prepare to sit back in your armchair and seethe at the facts. At Continue…