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Bersin's Brief and Belated Response
Office/industrial buildings cluster because of zoning laws. This isn't the hamburger business where they're trying to poach each other's customers. 2. You're confusing conventional wisdom about residential real estate appreciation with commercial buildings, which are all about cash flow. They are apples and oranges. Bersin can't raise the rent on his aging R&D building as a result of Sunroad's new office. Too many other things come into play. They're not even the same product type. They don't go after the same tenants. 3. I'm just a reader, dude. No conspiracy here. Ain't the Internet grand.— October 21, 2007 9:13 a.m.
Bersin's Brief and Belated Response
It's an appropriate response. I googled the address above. "Kisses?" The buildings are on opposite sides of the airport. Sunroad is west of Montgomery, this building is east of the airport. The address looks like an aging two-story R&D building. Just how would re-routing planes in bad weather benefit this building, which obviously has no height issues and is not very close to Sunroad? Commercial buildings are valued on cash flow from rents. If anything, the additional inventory from Sunroad is competition, potentially stealing tenants, though that's a stretch because the buildings are so different. Anticipating your rationale that developers are scheming to shut down Montgomery, the tenant in this building appears to make some avionics. Close Montgomery and you might lose the tenant. But all this is far afield. The premise that a change in approach/landing would boost the value of this building one iota or provide any financial benefit to its owners whatsoever doesn't make sense. Could you explain, please. Why would Sunroad's building being 160 feet or 180 feet or 10 feet mean a thing to the owners of this building? It's a shame, Don. Do you stand for the truth anymore? Or are you simply a partisan hit man?— October 20, 2007 12:02 a.m.
Will U-T and Republicans Attack Leslie Devaney?
Don: So Qualcomm, which could be located anywhere, shouldn't have been allowed to build its new headquarters because of the city's infrastructure deficit? Ditto for Intuit, Cymer, Sharp and other large employers? Is that what you're seriously advocating? But look, that's a separate debate on which reasonable people can disagree. The point regarding your rationale above is that it's not about personality. It's about the ends not justifying the means. You've been a journalist for what, 50 years? When a government official uses his office to "investigate" (intimidate) a small news organization over its content, you should be outraged. Yet you seem to think it's fine. It makes me wonder what alien snatched your body. You would be doing your boy a favor if you held his feet to the fire once in a while.— October 17, 2007 10:23 a.m.
Will U-T and Republicans Attack Leslie Devaney?
SD blogger. You're a juvenile flame thrower. Vitriol over intelligent discourse every time. I have no time for you. Don: What you say about KPBS makes no sense. How do they present news with a "Copley spin." What does that mean? I don't see them ignoring news. More importantly, why would their reporting on scams potentially piss off Copley? Why would Copley care? That just doesn't ring true. I suspect your real bitch with them is they're fair, that they present both sides of an issue, which you seem to interpret as being a lapdog for Copley. That's a leap of logic into another galaxy, dude. As for the news conference, you're logic again makes no sense. The city I suspect already has insurance. Getting additional coverage AFTER THE SLIDE is likely to be prohibitively expensive, if it's available at all. So what was Aguirre angling at again? What Sanders and his people said is not the issue, by the way. It's what Mike, the lawyer who may defend the city in these matters, said. That TV clip will be the first thing the plaintiff's lawyer shows the jury. Finally, I think we just disagree about the pension lawsuit. You may be right. I hope you are. I just think the practical solution would have been to go to the unions and negotiate a reduction in benefits. If auto makers can win concessions, so could the city. In posting here, I was trying to get you to examine your logic and rethink your rhetoric. You and Pat Flannery and the rest of the crew are determined to tear down the establishment, firing .50-caliber machine guns at every turn. That's fine. Slap them around when they're wrong. But let them up to breathe when they're right.— October 16, 2007 10:59 p.m.
Will U-T and Republicans Attack Leslie Devaney?
Don: This is probably pointless, but.... 1. Pension suit. You're offering the lemmings rationale. To date, most pension concessions have come through negotiations with unions or bankruptcy. Aguirre's shotgun litigation has killed any hope of negotiation. But more to the point, his legal theory appears loopy. Perhaps he'll win on appeal. I'm holding my breath. 2. Alternative spin on KPBS: Government official tries to intimidate news organization for political reasons -- namely that a show on which he appears often is canned while one that features a critic remains. And what KPBS relationship with Copley? Talk about ludicrous. The editorial editor appears for one hour every other week. 3. Nothing wrong with fact finding, but why go on TV and appear to suggest liability? If you're the lawyer for all the people of San Diego, how about trying to save all the taxpayers a buck in this settlement. 4. Sunroad. Sunroad should have never built up to 180 feet. But here's how adults handle this situation. The FAA issues a notice of presumed hazard. The developer, airport advocates, city officials, FAA etc. sit down to negotiate. They come up with a compromise. This happens all the time. End of story. Of course, you know what happened here. What San Diego needs is less vitriol and more ideas. You can help.— October 16, 2007 3:03 p.m.
McGrath Says U-T Editorial Was Libelous
The editorial was childish. McGrath's threat of a lawsuit is more childish. The editorial called out Aguirre, a public official, not McGrath. McGrath, as a chief deputy in the public eye, is also likely a public official. The editorial does not seem to be inaccurate on its face. The charter says what it says. If other laws make the 1931 provision irrelevant, well, that appears to be open to at least some interpretation. There's a long way from that to legal liability. And it's an opinion, just like Bauder's columns, one of which referred to an ex-city staffer "as a close advisor to a Las Vegas mobster's wealthy daughter." (You make the call about whether that was smear-mongering or fact) So a frivolous libel suit would only continue the childishness of our public discourse. Therefore, I have no doubt it will be filed. Would an adult please run for the job.— October 15, 2007 10:58 p.m.
Will U-T and Republicans Attack Leslie Devaney?
Don: Saying the raises were small seems like a bit of a stretch. And isn't there a little irony here? How many columns have you written making similar "ludicrous" connections? At some point you might want to stand back and take a critical look at Aguirre, from the pension suit to the KPBS investigation to the landslide news conference -- even the way he used Sunroad as a political club. You appear to be giving him a pass.— October 15, 2007 6:11 p.m.