Parking in downtown San Diego sucks! Let’s face it, nobody likes to come downtown and drive in circles trying to find a parking space. If you don’t live in a condo in downtown San Diego or rent, parking is always going to be tough!

 

In Little Italy, there is now a new parking garage on the corner of Cedar and Kettner. It’s a 7 story-parking garage with 3 floors underground. The garage can hold 640 cars with many spaces equipped for electric cars.

 

During working hours Monday through Friday, the garage will be private for the county and then available to the public in the evenings and weekends. This garage development was one of the remaining projects in the Waterfront Park construction that used to be 2 parking lots.

 

There are a few condo complexes that are located close to this garage that will help with guest parking for the allowed hours. Bella Via, Kettner Row and Lusso Lofts are all along Kettner Blvd close by.

Tomorrow is Halloween and downtown San Diego’s Gaslamp district will host the 15th annual Monster Bash. Monster Bash is a true block party that will incorporate 8 blocks for you to enjoy your Halloween this year. There will be 5 stages with over 20 dj’s performing throughout the night from 6-12. Do bring your favorite costume as there will be a Halloween costume contest and the winner will win $5,000.

 

The cost will now be $60 at the door for general admission and $100 for VIP. Each will allow you to have drink specials and food specials at the local restaurants and bars. VIP will allow those to have a special VIP entrance, VIP lounge bar, 4 drink tickets and a VIP lounge area.

 

Local Condos and Lofts owners that are in the Gaslamp District are Trellis and Gaslamp City Square. If you live here, you will always be entertained with all the events going on throughout the year and will always have something to do.

The San Diego airport isn’t happy with 3 cranes in downtown San Diego and has filed a lawsuit.  Apparently the real estate in downtown San Diego that the airport is not happy with is the Courthouse expansion, that will cost nearly $500 million, has 3 cranes that exceed the approved height.

 

The airport doesn’t like the tall cranes because they feel it’s a safety hazard for the planes flying around the city.  The cranes are supposed to fly a flag during the daytime and red lights at night and they have failed with complying to this as well.  The approved heights on the cranes are 472 feet and the cranes are reaching 650 feet.  There is also only supposed to be one crane and not the current 3 that there are.

 

So the airports wants 2 cranes taken down and also reduce the height of the remaining crane.  Brewer Crane and Rigging mentioned they received approval from the FAA allowing the heights to be as tall as 695 feet.

 

Sounds like someone is dropping the ball on this one and both are pointing fingers.

 

The San Diego airport is the busiest single runway in the country and the 2^nd in the world. With around 525 flights per day, there are around 51,000 passengers that travel through the San Diego airport.  Because of the travel demand through San Diego, Terminal Two has been renovated and soon Terminal One will as well.

 

 

Let’s talk Chargers football. Well, they got beat yesterday. Bummer!!

 

But let’s talk about the Chargers Stadium and what’s going to happen with the Chargers here in San Diego. Let’s be real, the Chargers want a new Stadium. They backed a proposal in 2014 to build a new stadium in downtown San Diego with Convention Center space included. I’m not sure why this didn’t go through but it just didn’t.

 

Well, Briggs is trying to get the new Chargers stadium downtown along with the convention center expansion.

 

At one point, the convention center was going to expand out towards the bay and would cost roughly $549 million. The new Chargers stadium at Qualcom would cost $1.2 billion. If the stadium is built downtown along with the expansion of the convention center, it would cost $1.42 billion which is $329 million less than if they were to build both separate.

 

In order to do so, hotel tax would increase from 12.5 to 15.5%. This would cover half the football stadium.

 

All I have to say is: Let’s keep the Chargers in San Diego!!  If so, real estate in Downtown San Diego around the stadium would be hugely impacted.

Rethink downtown is a new exhibit that’s sponsored by the Bosa development. Bosa development is a company out of Vancouver Canada that’s developed many of our luxury downtown San Diego condos and will also develop many more in the future.

 

At 700 First Ave from 11am – 5pm, across the street from my office, is the new 3000 square foot exhibit. You’ll get to see the 63 square foot model of downtown that’s pretty cool to see. I remember the first time I saw this model and I was thoroughly impressed by the detail of downtown. There are also historic pictures and maps and even videos for you to see what was then to what is now.  More information about rethink downtown.

 

As I mentioned, Bosa has developed many San Diego downtown Condos. These developments are:

 

Discovery

Horizons

Park Place

The Grande

The Legend

Electra

Bayside

 

Please let me know if you’re interested in taking a look at any of these downtown complexes and I’ll take you on a tour of any or all.

 

Downtown San Diego has a lot of buildings but there aren’t that many parks. Well, the East Village just opened it’s first new park since the Park at the Park at Petco. This new park is named: Fault Line Park.

 

Fault Line Park is 1.3 acres big and it’s located at 14^th and Island. It’s located beside the new Downtown San Diego rental complex Pinnacle on the Park. This is the same developer that developed Pinnacle Condos in the Marina district.

 

San Diego is making an effort to have more parks around downtown San Diego. They recently opened one by the administration building along Pacific Hwy and they have a couple more planed around the city.

 

It’s great see another park in San Diego where downtown condo owners have the opportunity to relax and enjoy the outdoors.

Tomorrow, Friday August 27, get out of your condo or loft and head over to the Gaslamp Quarter to enjoy some live music and good times.

 

Night Plaza is a summer series that was created by the Gaslamp Quarter Association, Downtown San Diego Partnership and Gaslamp Quarter Historical Foundation. Tomorrow night between 6:00pm – 9:00pm, Island Ave between 4^th & 5^th will have live music and dance lessons for people to enjoy. The street will be filled with tables and chairs with even games to play.

 

While you’re in the area, the Davis-Horton House will have free tours. This is directly North of Gaslamp City Square condos which is also on J street.

Take a look at this video below where 4 people jumped off the San Diego Coronado Bridge. Talk about an adrenaline rush!! That’s nuts. I bet if you were at The Metropolitan, you could probably see this all happen from your living room and patio.

 

The officer that saw this all happen and report the jump was called to investigate a possible suicide attempt and stumbled upon this crazy madness happen right in front of him.

 

The 4 men jumped out of a car and then jumped over the Coronado Bridge that they used to Base jump and parachute down into the San Diego Bay. The men were picked up by an awaiting boat and then eventually were pulled over by a police boat.

 

The man that dropped off the 4 guys received a ticket of obstructing traffic and the driver of the boat got a ticket for boating to fast in the bay. The 4 guys that jumped off the bridge, well, the police don’t know what to charge them with? Haha

 

At least one guy was active in the navy so you never know what might happen with him/them.

 

Stats about the San Diego’s Coronado Bridge:

200 Feet Tall

3^rd highest in suicide death rate in the USA as of 8-20-2015

Rate a body would reach once hitting the water is 70 miles an hour – splat

CBS News 8 – San Diego, CA News Station – KFMB Channel 8

Taylor Swift will be at Petco Park in downtown San Diego this Friday August 29, 2015. This show is sold out and many fans are very excited Taylor is coming to town.

 

Many condos in Downtown San Diego will be able to hear her show and see the fireworks from their unit or patio. Some of these complexes are:

 

The Legend

Diamond Terrace

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It’s great to live around Petco Park and to be able to join in on the fun and excitement the stadium has to offer nearby residences. There are many baseball games and concerts and much much more that Petco has to offer.

 

If you’re looking to take advantage of living by Petco Park, contact me today:

Doug Manchester loves San Diego and has purchased himself into a partnership with current owner of the old Sempra Energy building. Manchester purchased 49% ownership of the current building that’s located at Ash and First. Sandor Shapery has owned the building since 1993 and says he’s excited to work with Manchester for the first time.

The old Sempra building stands 19 stories high with 350,331 square foot of space.  Manchester purchased 49% from a previous investor for $20 million.

At this time, both are exploring the possibilities of what type of real estate in downtown San Diego will best suit this building. They have mentioned it being a hotel or office space or residential living. Whatever will come out of this building, I’m sure it will do very well in return $.

 

Manchester is a huge player in real estate here in San Diego. He has helped shape our city to what it is today.