By Mike in June 2008 with 0 Comments
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/higher-gas-prices-mean-more-urban-development/210/ I thought that it would be appropriate to write a blog on gas prices and urban development as the price of oil jumped today to an unbelievable $140 a barrel. Many experts predict that gas prices will continue to rise throughout the rest of the year. If the price of a barrel of oil Continue…
By Mike in June 2008|Video with 0 Comments
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/san-diego-airport-landing/195/ As many of us sometimes do, I found myself surfing on Youtube and came across this interesting video. We do so much blogging on the state of the Downtown San Diego Real Estate market and statistics, so I thought this blog entry would be for pure fun. Everyone who lives in Downtown San Diego Continue…
By Mike in June 2008 with 0 Comments
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/canine-surfing-competition/209/ This weekend is the 3rd Annual Loews Coronado Bay Resort Surf Dog Competition. Spend this weekend at the beach while helping raise money for a good cause. Saturday, June 28th See Spot surf during the Loews Dog Surfing Competition – the nations original surfing competition for mans best friend. Last year, 47 surf dogs Continue…
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/italian-planner-looks-to-san-diego-for-smart-growth-ideas/204/ I recently read an interesting article in the Union Tribune titled Italian planner marvels at San Diegos smart-growth tenets. It was fascinating hearing a Europeans point of view on San Diegos city planning and development. It is very popular for American architects and planners to travel to Europe to study how the Old World Continue…
By Pete in June 2008 with 0 Comments
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/progress-in-the-neighborhood/208/ So what was originally going to be a block with an additional 300-some condos to add to our market is now becoming a boutique hotel, Hotel Indigo and a luxury apartment High Rise, Strata. The cranes are up on both sites and concrete is being poured. Our skyline is improving yet again!
By Mike in June 2008|Video with 0 Comments
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/art-and-the-city/207/ Art in a city can really define it and represent the people, history, and overall vibe of the city. San Diego is huge on public art as many have noticed, especially around our waterfront. Check out this video from the Port of San Diego, and see what San Diego has to offer in art Continue…
By Mike in June 2008 with 0 Comments
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/green-port-program/206/ The Port of San Diego was formed in 1962 to serve as a sort of steward for San Diego Bay. The Port of SD is in charge of managing the Bay’s valuable social, economic and environmental resources. If you live in San Diego, or have even briefly visited us here, you understand the Continue…
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/urban-livingthe-new-american-dream/203/ In this blog, we talk about the concept of New Urbanism: Creating sustainable and dense neighborhoods focused around mass transit and walk able distance to work, live, and play. In Downtown San Diego, the concept of New Urbanism is alive and well. The development and revitalization of Downtown San Diego starts and finishes with Continue…
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/fha-financing-just-got-a-little-easier-for-bank-owned-property-buyers/202/ Many of you have called and [email protected] with questions about the low 3% down FHA financing that is currently available. In the past, FHA financing criteria have excluded bank owned properties for 90 days as well as certain communities that were not “FHA approved” from eligible for FHA financing. FHA financing just got a Continue…
By Mike in June 2008 with 0 Comments
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/east-villages-cowboy-star/188/ Ah yes…another genius business now in the East Village…Cowboy Star. This will be the first restaurant in the East Village to be servin’-up a contemporary American-Western cuisine. The atmosphere is urban-sheik-cowboy, with exposed beam ceilings, cowboy accents and a kind of modern, contemporary saloon exterior. The 92101 team went to lunch there the other Continue…
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/north-embarcadero-visionary-plan/201/ A couple months back we did a blog on The North Embarcadero Visionary Plan (NVP). This project is so completely instrumental in shaping the face of San Diego, therefore, it is important to have a refresher blog with some updated information. If you are a current San Diego resident, or a potential one, you Continue…
By Mike in June 2008 with 0 Comments
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/little-italy-mercato/199/ Beginning this month on the 7th, every Saturday morning, year-round from 9am to 1:30pm, Date Street from India to State will be closed to through traffic so organic fruit stands, seafood, cheese and olive oil purveyors, bread bakers and chefs can sell their goods to downtown resident’s and visitors. There will even be a Continue…
By Mike in June 2008 with 0 Comments
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/2008-san-diego-county-fair/197/ The 2008 San Diego County Fair will run from Saturday, June 14 through Sunday, July 6 and closed two Mondays, June 16 and 23. This years theme is ”Summer of Sports” which will celebrate a wide variety of sports at all levels, from youth to professional. Events this year will include a Reggae Festival Continue…
By Mike in June 2008 with 0 Comments
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/beautifying-our-streets/200/ This week Little Italy becomes the inaugural site in a series of beautification plans for Downtown San Diego. 400 brightly colored planters and hanging baskets began to line India Street. The project is aimed to provide a softer urban feel by adding more color and life to the streetscape. Great urban environments throughout the Continue…
By Mike in June 2008|Video with 0 Comments
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/us-open-torrey-pines/198/ US Open is in San Diego at Torrey Pines…this one is intense, check out the video below. 2008 U.S. OPEN tickets and ticket packages directly from the USGA are SOLD-OUT. Tickets are now only available either in the secondary ticket market or directly from the USGA as part of a few remaining Corporate Hospitality Continue…
By Mike in June 2008|Video with 0 Comments
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/downtown-san-diego-penthouse/196/ In the course of doing Real Estate in Downtown San Diego, it is always a pleasure to list and review totally unique urban homes. This rare Southwest corner penthouse on the 9th floor in Brittany Towers is one of the most stunning and unique that I have run across here in my Downtown San Continue…
By Pete in June 2008 with 0 Comments
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/trolley-removes-fare-zones/191/ An article in today’s paper talks about an increase in trolley fares, along with bus fare as well. It will now cost $2.50 to go through Downtown as opposed to $1.50 however… the zone has been removed. So you just pay $2.50 as opposed to $1.50 then $3. Check out the article and hop Continue…
By Pete in June 2008 with 0 Comments
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/bragging-about-my-hood/173/ Have you seen the new Toyota commercials? Huh? Have you? They are awesome! Ya know why? Because they show Toyota’s driving around our awesome downtown neighborhood and it clearly shows my Loft! The killer orange paneled building is called Fahrenheit, and it is awesome and that is where I live. Never leaving. Ever. It Continue…
The above link will take you to a YouTube video featuring Rob Quigley, design architect for the new Downtown San Diego central library. The library will be located east of 11th Ave between J & K streets.Mr. Quigley provided a quick update about the status of the library this Friday morning (June 6th) during a “Coffee Continue…
By Mike in June 2008 with 0 Comments
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/san-diego-restaurant-week/187/ San Diego is packed with a ‘vast arrary of culinary delights’ as many reviewers may say. I live in the heart of it all, surrounded by some of this regions best restaurants, chefs and atmospheres…this can get costly. So the urbanist often has to cut back on the eating-out-every-night-of-the-week routine leaving so many opportunities Continue…