A much-ballyhooed plan to build a $115 million stem cell research center in Torrey Pines may collapse because of the bad economy, it was reported Friday.
The nation’s financial woes, coupled with California’s budget crisis, is making it difficult for San Diego’s stem cell consortium to secure the loans needed to build the center, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
To celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th U.S. President, pop artist Peter Max painted 44 portraits of our first African-American chief executive. Max brings his Obama installation to La Jolla’s Wentworth Gallery on Jan. 31.
For almost two decades the San Diego Jewish Film Festival has brought films to San Diego audiences that entertain and enlighten. After narrowing down the hundreds of submissions from around the world, the final 50 are contemporary Jewish-themed films that range from dramas to comedies and include many based on true stories.
Festival talent scheduled to attend
The average price of self-serve unleaded regular gasoline in San Diego County rose three-tenths of a cent per gallon Thursday to $2.102, 2 cents more than last week.
New sanctuary is educational and green
The recently completed San Elijo Nature Center will celebrate its grand opening Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The public is invited to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony and then enjoy guided nature walks, live animal presentations, children’s activities and tour the new educational facility.
About 80,000 square feet of new office and retail buildings in the works for El Camino Real are stirring up frustration among neighbors. American Assets’ Torrey Reserve includes projects on both sides of the street at the entrance to the Torrey Hills community, just before Arroyo Sorrento Road.
R. Roger Rowe second graders and middle school students have a lot of heart. Their beautiful heart-themed paintings are bringing cheer to patients, doctors and visitors at Scripps Memorial Hospital in Encinitas as part of the Arts for Healing program.
Some liken Lilian proposal to Boston’s famous ‘Big Dig’
Some Rancho Santa Fe residents are comparing the Lilian project’s construction process to Boston’s “Big Dig.”
Pending ordinance to restrict ground-level uses downtown
By Halie Johnson and Laura Petersen
Staff Writers
The temporary ordinance to limit ground-floor commercial spaces along Camino del Mar and 15th Street to retail and restaurant is on its way to becoming permanent.
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