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"That skyline view with the stage looking over the city and the bridge...”
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Mission Valley Stories
Morris Cerullo gets nod for Bible resort in Mission Valley
Architect intimidated by Garden of Eden
Local televangelist Morris Cerullo has asked that everyone "fervently pray" for the city's favor in support of his "end-time project." Cerullo's Legacy International Center project got off to a rocky start, but appears to have ...
Civita Park’s a work-in-progress
New public park in MIssion Valley opened on April 29
Built on a 70-year old sand-and-gravel quarry, Civita Park is a work-in-progress that will total 14.3 park acres centrally located in a 230-acre residential development. The top and bottom sections opened during Arbor Day weekend ...
Cole solicits 2018 cash before SoccerCity vote
4th District councilwoman Myrtle Cole throws big-money street taco bash
With fingers pointing to inside wheeling and dealing between Republican San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer and a group of La Jolla hedge fund mavens promoting the transfer of Qualcomm Stadium to themselves for a massive ...
SoccerCity friend Dene Oliver provides Pt. Loma house for Faulconer chief of staff's wedding
Mike Stone's influence outweighs Sudberry, Fenton, and Manchester
The bomb bay doors of San Diego politics have opened on FS Investors and Mike Stone, the former Wall Street hedge fund maven seeking to grab Qualcomm Stadium, with collateral damage for the higher-office ambitions ...
North Park wants what Civita doesn't
A connector road leading to Texas Street
Adding a controversial connector road in Mission Valley's Civita came to a North Park Public Facilities committee (part of the area planning group) Wednesday night for review for its potential effect on Texas Street traffic. ...
If Linda Vista said no, maybe Mission Valley will also
7-Eleven, facing foes to Friars Road site, misses meeting
Representatives from 7-Eleven were a no-show at a Mission Valley Planning Group meeting Wednesday (May 3) — for a presentation they had asked to make on a proposed store at Via Las Cumbres and Friars ...
Homies behind in Qualcomm Stadium cash war
But SoccerCity foes putting up major money as signatures arrive.
The battle between a Wall Street hedge fund multimillionaire from La Jolla and two old-line developers over the destiny of Qualcomm Stadium is looking more formidable than ever. On Thursday April 13, a political committee ...
Mission Valley planners scorn soccer end-run-around group
Park proposal more vague than presented
Hours after Mayor Kevin Faulconer stood with FS Investors in support of their Qualcomm redo ballot initiative, the developers received a far less friendly reception at the Mission Valley Planning Group. The company has proposed ...
Mission Valley privatization's blazingly fast cash burn
Another million sunk into contentious stadium campaign
If nothing else, the knock-down, big-money brawl over the fate of the 165-acre chunk of public land in Mission Valley otherwise known as Qualcomm Stadium would make a good case study for Harvard Business School, ...
Hedge-fund figures kick in $1.4 million for stadium land grab
"SoccerCity" backers’ deep pockets on display in first financial disclosure
Big money appears to be doing plenty of the talking within the corridors of power at San Diego's city hall and outside the doors of area supermarkets, where hired guns from across the nation are ...
Will political money war lay waste to Mission Valley?
Council president sets up 2018 election fund for high-dollar shootout
The battle over city-owned Qualcomm Stadium has been joined by two old-line Mission Valley developers, virtually guaranteeing a costly political fight over the fate of a giant soccer-themed high-density commercial and housing complex on the ...
Secrecy shrouds Faulconer’s SoccerCity favors
City staff hands inside information to big-money developers
As Democratic Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti, a talked-of candidate for governor, bans city planning commissioners from meeting privately with developers, San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer, another putative aspirant to statewide office, is heading in ...
Goodbye, Mission Valley green acreage
“Nobody’s looking to create a cookie-cutter community.”
Linda Vista residents who overlook the 27-hole Riverwalk Golf Course in west Mission Valley got a look last week at the first conceptual drafts of the project being planned on the 200 acres of land ...
TGI open for another month
Longtime Mission Valley restaurant completing its history book
“This restaurant closes it doors on March 26,” Honorio Zarate said in an interview as he greeted patrons for happy hour this week. Zarate is the service manager for the TGI Fridays restaurant on 403 ...
Lobbyists in Mission Valley land rush
Stadium payoffs
The controversial plan by a stealthy group of La Jolla money men known as FS Investors to replace city-owned Qualcomm Stadium with a soccer venue and high-end commercial and housing development is turning into a ...
Lobbyists push for hasty Mission Valley soccer deal
Stripper-gate figure and Metropolitan Water District on “Taxpayers” board
As the big-money politics behind the drive to turn over the Qualcomm Stadium site to a secretive syndicate of La Jolla money men mounts, one of the city's mightiest pro-developer lobbies has jumped into the ...
San Diego Comic Fest — so (intentionally) not Comic-Con
The annual festival has a musical side
The fifth annual San Diego Comic Fest makes its debut in a new venue, Four Points By Sheraton, running February 17 through 20. Music-themed events will include discussion panels, a live band trivia contest, and ...
Latham joins Mission Valley's public land war
Super-rich La Jolla hedge-funders lay out big cash for L.A. lobbyist
How many dollars are San Diegans willing to surrender to developers of a new stadium for professional soccer and San Diego State University, biding its time for the lucrative opportunity to hike the price of ...
Big Fletcher donors behind MLS venue grab
Ex-Qualcomm exec, hedge-fund manager to unveil stealth stadium deal
When it comes to disposing of city-owned Qualcomm Stadium, it appears that San Diego taxpayers are the last to know. As reported late Sunday (January 22) by KNSD’s Derek Togerson and others, an "investment group" ...
County claims no record of Chargers stadium subsidy offer
U-T fans stadium flames as tax-money hype burns bright
With the Chargers on the brink of departing San Diego for Los Angeles, some local politicos have reportedly been busy proffering sizable gifts of public money to entice the team to stay in town. But ...
Demolition plans for Town and Country hotel
Apartments and pools part of $80 million makeover planned for 2018
On December 30, Bill Earl was admiring the woody surfing murals on the walls of the Terrace Café in the Town and Country Resort and Convention Center when he found out it was set to ...
Will GOP's Sherman play his stadium card for Alvarez?
Big-money closed-door deal looms over city-council presidency vote
As the battle for the presidency of the newly reconstituted San Diego City Council heads for a showdown, the contest is increasingly shaping up as a way for Mission Valley development interests to strengthen their ...
Camino del Rio South becoming pot shop center?
Two dispensaries established and a third in application phase
Camino del Rio South seems poised to become home to a third medical marijuana dispensary — and it's rumored that there may be a fourth in the works. Blake Marchand has applied to the city ...
Burger chain strives to be In-N-Out but doesn’t quite make it
Not habit-forming
I love a good burger but, these days, I’m holding out for a great one. It’s not enough for a burger to be okay — I need it to be transcendent. I’d rather have an ...
Noisy life along the Southern Wildlife Preserve
A hike along the San Diego River Estuary is a great way to see nature’s art in our own backyard.
Until the middle of the past century, the San Diego River flowed into a large wetland that encompassed parts of San Diego Bay as well as Mission Bay. However, periodic flooding deposited large amounts of ...
