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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/keeping-san-diego-bay-clean-volunteers-needed-this-weekend/189/ This weekend, you can take part in keeping San Diego clean. Hundreds of volunteers will gather at San Diego Bay to participate in one of California’s largest environmental clean up events. Operation Clean Sweep, presented by the San Diego Port Tenants Association in partnership with the Port of San Diego, will take place on Continue…
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downtown-san-diego-real-estate/location-location-location/183/ San Diego County is filled with such diversity. There are over 90 sub communities that make up the Real Estate Residential Market. Each individual sub market performs based on its specific price points and location. I guess it should stop surprising me that performance of high-end product and very average product are continually generalized Continue…
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downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/how-expensive-are-we-compared-to-other-destination-cities/184/ In an article in Yahoo Finance today, it discusses the cost per square foot of the top ten most expensive cities in the world. Guess who is not in the top ten? San Diego. Coming in at the number 1 spot is London, at a whopping $6,191 per sq ft. A $1.5 Million price Continue…
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downtown-san-diego-real-estate/live-greenlive-in-cities/181/ In this month’s issue of Wired Magazine, there was a very interesting editorial that I thought I should share. It is titled “Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What it Means to be Green” . In the article, we are challenged to examine our preconceived notions of what we think may or may not Continue…
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downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/new-downtown-san-diego-childrens-museum/176/ It is great to be parents living In Downtown San Diego! Downtown San Diego Children’s Museum on Memorial Day. It was awesome to see all the kids and families that had come down from all over the county to check it out. Building derby racing cars, painting the VW bug, climbing the climbing walls Continue…