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India Street "speedway" under consideration
"I am guessing the airport authority thinks its a good idea because the new rental car center on PCH will probably tell renters to use Sassafras to get to the nearest 5 North entrance." -- But how much extra traffic would that add? How many visitors renting a car at SAN are going to go directly from the rental center to I-5 North? So yeah, this proposal seems unnecessary.— April 10, 2016 8:37 p.m.
Seymour Lazar, once a puppet of Lerach, dies
Lazar "took more than $2 million in kickbacks" -- I wouldn't call someone who got $2 million in kickbacks a mere tool. Lerach was correct in calling Lazar one of the conspirators.— April 10, 2016 9:34 a.m.
Are funny numbers bad news for Union-Tribune?
According to the article, the dubious numbers in San Diego go back farther than Tribune's ownership. Maybe much farther. When business is really bad, there must be an enormous temptation to massage the numbers to make them look less bad. And the newspaper business has been really bad for at least 20 years.— April 10, 2016 9:25 a.m.
Anheuser-Busch uses 10-Barrel Brewing to invade East Village
To fulfill its truth-in-advertising obligation, the giant neon sign out front of "10 Barrel" needs to read "BUDWEISER" in large letters.— March 16, 2016 10:30 p.m.
Almost all shopped out
"The developers will be rushing to knock the buildings down, trying to beat a February 29 deadline" -- if that was their deadline, they missed it.— March 9, 2016 12:20 p.m.
Will the NFL be as powerful in three decades?
“Imagine somebody having spent hundreds of millions of dollars on boxing rings or horse-racing venues” -- perhaps an unintentionally ironic comment given that one of those old, famous, lavishly-built horse racing venues (Hollywood Park) is now being turned into the site for the most expensive football stadium ever to be built. The Convadium won't be truly useful for anything other than American football. The occasional monster truck & tractor pull won't pay the bills. The capacity will be far too large to make it desirable for soccer; MLS venues typically are built to seat less than 30,000, and MLS won't place a team in San Diego unless a smaller, soccer-suitable venue with a grass field is built here. (A smaller stadium for both SDSU football and an MLS soccer team would fit the bill, but apparently no one with the city or county or SDSU has both the desire and means to fund it.)— March 9, 2016 12:16 p.m.
The 14-dollar hot dog and sauerkraut are cries for help
But really, "the reason we gladly pay $14 for a glorified hot dog every now and again" is because we are hungry while at a Padres game.— March 9, 2016 11:57 a.m.
Absolutely malled in Carlsbad
It was reported this week that Westfield has given up on Carlsbad and is selling Plaza Camino Real to Rouse Properties, an operator of about 30 "downmarket" malls mostly built in the 1960s and 1970s. http://sdbj.com/news/2015/nov/04/westfield-plans-…— November 4, 2015 10:52 p.m.
O.C. Register parent files for bankruptcy — again
Did anyone other than Kushner think he would be successful by spending heavily in the way that dailies did when they had much higher local ad revenue?— November 3, 2015 11:38 p.m.
Absolutely malled in Carlsbad
Westfield is never going to rebuild that mall if Caruso gets to build his traffic-choking mega-mall on the lagoon shore. Why would they rebuild? There is a glut of shopping centers in the area already. Caruso's mega-mall would have Nordstrom and would draw away all of the high-end, high-profit smaller tenants. Westfield would be stuck with a dying Penney's, a dying Sears, two (not one, but two!) anemic Macy's stores, and a hodgepodge of low-end, low-margin stores that draw little traffic and don't pay top dollar for rent. The Westfield mall won't generate enough revenue to justify remodeling it. Westfield will let their Carlsbad mall decay indefinitely. If they're lucky, as the article notes, Sears and Penney's will go out of business, then they only have to buy out the Macy's lease to tear the whole eyesore down -- and maybe, as that lonely Westfield shopper suggested, then they'll build cookie-cutter condos on that giant lot. The only way that Westfield mall gets remodeled and renovated is if the Caruso mega-mall is never built.— October 16, 2015 6:06 p.m.