Developers of San Diego’s latest luxury hotel, a 400-room InterContinental on the downtown waterfront, celebrated a construction milestone Wednesday with the completion of the highrise’s glass facade. The topping-off ceremony also marks the start of the final phase of...

Speaking last month at a downtown luncheon celebrating San Diego’s first nonstop flight to Switzerland, the outgoing airport CEO took the opportunity to applaud her soon-to-be-former employer — “the little airport that could,” she called it. A decade ago, when the San...

San Diego’s first Ritz-Carlton Hotel, a Whole Foods grocery, housing for all income groups and offices were approved Tuesday by the City Council in what promises to be the biggest, most expensive and densest mixed-use building in the county. “This is exactly what we...

San Diego’s waterfront is facing a dramatic makeover as a result of key decisions by the port board in the last nine months. Most recently, the San Diego Unified Port District commissioners approved OliverMcMillan and Sunroad Enterprises to redevelop the eastern part...

If the crop of construction cranes downtown signals boom times are back, take a look at Civic San Diego’s latest count. The downtown planning agency reports 27 projects under construction with many more approved or planned. “Looking back historically, it’s probably...

San Diego port commissioners shocked the development community this week when they swiftly narrowed the field of bidders to redevelop Seaport Village and its surrounding acreage. In 6-1 vote Wednesday, the San Diego Unified Port District board decided to focus on...

At least one study finds San Diego way ahead of Los Angeles. A new ranking from WalletHub puts San Diego eighth nationally as the best large city in which to live, while L.A. ranked 38th. But let’s not pat ourselves on the back too vigorously. San Diego ranked 30th...

A $400 million highrise development that promises to elevate the stature of East Village and deliver San Diego its first Ritz Carlton hotel received final approval Wednesday from the city’s downtown planning agency. Barring an appeal to the San Diego Planning...

Seaport Village, the quaint 36-year-old specialty shopping center on the downtown waterfront, would get a radical makeover under six different concepts that will be unveiled to the public Monday. At the request of the San Diego Unified Port District, which controls...

After decades of building car-centric suburbs, developers now realize they may be partly responsible for a rising tide of obesity. Now, led by the Urban Land Institute think tank in Washington, D.C., they’re pivoting to “healthy places” where walkability, parks,...

Nolen dreamed it, Marston campaigned for it, President Franklin D. Roosevelt praised it. And now San Diego County has it: A 12-acre bayfront park, complete with interactive fountains, children's playground, low-water-using gardens and expanses of lawn and lookout...

Six decades after Lane Field baseball park became a parking lot, a $375 million redevelopment officially opened its first phase on San Diego’s downtown waterfront Thursday with promises of much more to come. The 400-unit, 19-story Marriott SpringHill Suites-Residence...

If you’ve noticed a few more construction cranes on the downtown skyline, your eyes don’t deceive. San Diego’s Centre City has more than $6.4 billion in 63 projects under construction, approved or under review — an amount equal to more than 40 percent of the...

Anthony’s Fish Grotto, a 69-year tradition on San Diego Bay, lost out to Brigantine Restaurants Tuesday as the San Diego Unified Port District voted for change on a key site on the downtown waterfront. The port board voted 4-2 -- with one member not participating --...

A 19-story hotel planned for the southern portion of Lane Field will mark the return of this hotel brand, last here in the 1980’s. (John Portman and Associates) San Diego will see the return of long absent InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, with the development of a...