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CCDC Kills 7th and Market Project; Chairman Maas Says Related Group May Be Victim, Attacks Local Developer
I forgot Sunroad. Steven Strauss represented them, too. That is a pretty nice trifecta.— September 10, 2008 12:46 p.m.
CCDC Kills 7th and Market Project; Chairman Maas Says Related Group May Be Victim, Attacks Local Developer
Pat Flannery speculated a little while back that Related could even be behind the Manchester bid to redevelop the Broadway navy site, since you can't tell who is behind a Delaware LLC. Now Manchester's pit bull of a lawyer (Steven Straus) shows up representing Related in front of the CCDC. Coincidence? Don, since the city charter specifically states that the identity of all persons doing business with the city must be known, how in the world has the city been allowed for so long to do business with all of these opaque Delaware LLCs?— September 10, 2008 12:33 p.m.
Port of San Diego makes wild proposal for Tenth Avenue terminal
Anon92107, No need to make up NORGAS in San Diego. Thanks to the good folks at the Wild Animal Park, we already have had WGASA for almost 35 years, from the (now defunct) Wgasa Bush Line. Just replace "no one really" with "who", and add "anyways" to the end.— September 6, 2008 6:02 p.m.
Port of San Diego makes wild proposal for Tenth Avenue terminal
Maybe we can put a prop on the ballot to claim the airspace over city hall and put a deck over it (or perhaps just hermetically seal it?) and then build the new stadium on top of it. I don't see any reason why we couldn't then put a deck on top of the stadium to build condos, and then a deck over the condos to build a sports arena. If we really need a new city hall, it can go above the sports arena. It's what we call in computer science "a turtle problem". To wit (the Stephen Hawkin version of a much older story): A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down."— September 5, 2008 10:25 a.m.
Port of San Diego makes wild proposal for Tenth Avenue terminal
I've got cement logs in my fireplace, and as long as you aren't really going to touch them, they look pretty damn good.— September 4, 2008 4:56 p.m.
Port of San Diego makes wild proposal for Tenth Avenue terminal
BTW, why is no one talking about the most obvious location for a new stadium; the Miramar dump? It has so many advantages, with none of the drawbacks of the Tenth Avenue terminal. It has good freeway access, plenty of room, and would continue to have lots of productive activity on the 356 days a year that the Chargers wouldn't be there. Stadiums are notoriously ugly, but that wouldn't be a problem at Miramar. Over the years the trash would build up and block the view of the ugly stadium with the more aesthetically pleasing sight of a pile of garbage. It would also be a useful analogy for future Charger teams, because we all know what is going to happen to the quality on the field as soon as Spanos gets his new stadium (Can you say "Padres"?). The engineering would be a breeze. As the stadium settles, you could ask the 10k to 20k fans that show up for the games to all sit in whichever section is highest, and the whole thing should level out. After 20 years or so (apparently the lifespan of a billion dollar stadium) the garbage will be up to the rim, and we can commence filling it in. Alternatively, Spanos can build condos. It's a win-win for everybody!— September 4, 2008 12:36 p.m.
Port of San Diego makes wild proposal for Tenth Avenue terminal
response to #16: Come on, Fred. Do you only want to sift through boring sites where things are laid out with intelligent purpose? Where is the challenge in that? Now, if you found an arena over the water right next to where you knew heavy ships were unloading, then your imagination could run wild! Forget crop circles, you could have a field day with that non sequitur. For instance, maybe it was a giant holding pen where San Diegans were fattened up before they being shipped off for consumption? Most San Diegans act like lambs being led to slaughter anyway, so it is not too much of a stretch...— September 4, 2008 12:22 p.m.
Port of San Diego makes wild proposal for Tenth Avenue terminal
In response to #9: Don, are bad analogies still OK? Here is a good list for future use: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti… Includes some beauties, such as: The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River. It came down the stairs looking very much like something no one had ever seen before. "Oh, Jason, take me!" she panted, her breasts heaving like a college freshman on $1-a-beer night.— September 4, 2008 10:53 a.m.
Port of San Diego makes wild proposal for Tenth Avenue terminal
Response to #8 and #10: I sat completely dumbfounded during the chant of "drill baby drill". They might as well have been shouting "greed baby greed". It is incomprehensible to me to think that slogan will resonate anywhere but in that room. The damage done to our national security through Bush's support of the oil industry has been staggering. I thought McCain and his group had at least some understanding of that, but now this?— September 4, 2008 10:04 a.m.
Port of San Diego makes wild proposal for Tenth Avenue terminal
Don, From reading you for years in the UT, I know that San Diego is one of the worst offenders in the country for mail fraud, ponzi scams, investment scams, elder abuse scams and self-help wealth-building scams that often net the principals lavish homes in Rancho Santa Fe (and all too infrequently, a stint at Lompoc). It would seem that there is a strong connection between that and the way our government conducts its business. I'm curious what other areas of the country have a similar incidence of this type of fraud (parts of New Jersey spring to mind), and whether their local governments are similarly ethically challenged.— September 4, 2008 9:21 a.m.