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New SDSU president withheld email from investigators
I have heard speculation from some students that with her Hispanic Studies street cred, she has been brought in to kill off the Aztec mascot and imagery, and, otherwise, for the State U system to show its commitment to diversity.— February 2, 2018 7:59 a.m.
Save Civita Because Sudberry Won't
This is the same Sudberry that is the major funder of the SDSU West Initiative, who is saying "trust us, our vague 14 page initiative will give you a good deal". The Civita residents say that Sudberry Properties failed to disclose plans for the road when they bought their properties. And, Sudberry's claims that the development was to be a transit oriented, urban village, was just a sales pitch. I guess he figures that if he could fool people once, then he can fool them again with his latest scam.— November 29, 2017 11:38 a.m.
Get nervous, team-owning robber barons
If the bill passes it would raise an interesting issue for the SDSU West initiative stadium plan. SDSU almost certainly would plan to finance development of a new stadium with bonds. If it does so with a private partner as the initiative implies and/or designates the proposed stadium as a joint use stadium for SDSU football and a professional soccer team (which might be necessary to make the economics work), would it then fall into the proposed prohibition on using tax-free bonds to finance it?— November 7, 2017 5:59 a.m.
Rip down Qualcomm and build new stadium?
Do reporters actually do research anymore? Why haven't you or any other reporter inquired why SDSU has said nothing about their undeveloped 32 acres on the north side of I-8 immediately across from the campus? As far as trusting SDSU to develop the Qualcomm property responsibly, it only took me about 3 minutes of online research to find these comments about a 2005 SDSU plan to build faculty and student housing on the Adobe Falls site they own, " The city's biggest concern, Madaffer and city redevelopment agency officials say, is that the university plans to build its projects without paying for the public infrastructure to support it. University officials argue that the law restricts what educational institutions can spend their money on. "The state of California entrusts the university with a budget to build universities. We are specifically enjoined from building infrastructure or anything else not involved in an educational purpose," Weber said." I would approach SDSU's claims with the same skepticism that I consider FS Investor's plan. At least FS Investors are professional developers who are honest about their intent to make a profit. SDSU wants to do its own land grab and have a bunch of academics run a development plan, and we all know how well academics usually do in those situations.— September 14, 2017 10:33 a.m.
SDSU’s newest rainmaker
McGrory is the former SD City Manager who brought us the pension crisis and the Chargers ticket guarantee among other financial fiascos for us as San Diego residents. The only one who ever does well on deals he works on is Jack McGrory himself.— August 31, 2017 7:48 a.m.
San Diego big labor’s deceit on propositions K and L
The developers opposing the Soccer City initiative have hired Tom Shepard & Associates to manage their campaign opposing it. You can make your own assumptions about the integrity of their opposition claims on that fact alone.— August 14, 2017 9:44 a.m.
Adobe Falls lovers pin hopes on Sally Roush
Since they already own that 32 acres why don't they just build a new football stadium right there closer to campus?— August 1, 2017 10:18 a.m.
SDSU’s very own bulldozer city?
I have been watching Doug Manchester buy or sucker San Diego politicians for about 3 decades now. Now he's got the Democrat council members and people like Donna Frye and Corey Briggs who claim to care about a river park and affordable housing doing his dirty work and killing the project that had the park and affordable housing on the front end of the project rather than decades down the road. The guy is an evil genius. At least FSI has set the bar high with its offer to pay the full $110 million value of the property and build the river park. When Doug and his buddies finally do come out with a real plan watch him sucker those same City Council members into giving away the store.— June 21, 2017 6:15 a.m.
SoccerCity backers go off the charts, both ways
I have been following this like it's a playoff series of local politics, and because I would like to see the river park built now and not decades from now. The FS Investors and Mike Stone have said the $150M franchise fee will be coming out of their pockets. As to whether Stone and his partners can afford it, a little internet research shows that Stone also is a partner in TPG and the Rise Fund, which " is committed to achieving social and environmental impact alongside financial returns." Its board reads like a Who's Who of tech billionaires and he has agreed to be its CIO. The Soccer City deal looks like for Mike Stone it's about on the scale for his assets that buying a new car would be for you or me.— June 12, 2017 4:25 p.m.
Mike and Nick’s Aussie adventure
That's a pretty amusing photoshop effort accompanying this article, but does the article have a point? If it does I missed it.— June 7, 2017 2:25 p.m.