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Post by jdredd on Jul 14, 2016 14:56:06 GMT -5
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/jul/13/seaport-spire-jacobs-san-diego/"Seaport San Diego, a $1.2 billion replacement with a 500-foot spire for Seaport Village, won near unanimous support Wednesday from the San Diego Unified Port District. The board voted 6-1, with Chairman Marshall Merrifield opposed, to move to exclusive discussions with a development team that includes Qualcomm cofounder Irwin Jacobs' son Jeff. The district's goal is to fine-tune several points and make a final decision in October. "It's very surprising -- I didn't expect to get it," said Yehudi "Gaf" Gaffen, spokesman for the team." Why, Yehudi? Because your design sucks? Look at that ugly spire. What an eyesore."The team, operating under the name Protea Waterfront Development, includes as key members Jeff Jacobs and his business partner Jeff Essakow who own the highly rated Rancho Valencia Hotel in Rancho Santa Fe. Big-name designers include BIG, a Denmark-based architectural frm with a growing worldwide reputation." What, they couldn't find a worthy California architectural firm?"Once the Port District board selects a final bidder, it will enter exclusive negotiations, refine the details and prepare an environmental impact report. If all goes well, the project along with a new Port master plan could be approved by the California Coastal Commission in 2018 and be under construction by 2019. That would put the opening at 2021 at the earliest." Oh, great. The area will be a construction disaster area from 2019 to 2021. Thanks, Port!
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Post by jdredd on Jul 16, 2016 0:01:27 GMT -5
Today the UT rag says that the new Seaport Village will not be under construction from 2019 to 2021. Instead, it will be a construction disaster area from 2020 to 2023. Nice. All in the name of a "world class waterfront". Gag. And that 480-ft "spire" looks like a flower vase.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 19, 2016 1:36:52 GMT -5
What I love about the Olympics is the way they con countries into building these sports venues, and half the time they end up being white elephants.(Google "abandoned Olympic venues")
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Post by jdredd on Sept 15, 2016 14:46:36 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/us/california-today-techies-san-diego-bay-area.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0"San Diego may have some of the best fish tacos and year-round beach days, but that’s apparently not enough to keep a lot of its tech talent from fleeing for the San Francisco Bay Area. In a recent column in Voice of San Diego, Alexander Bakst, a computer science student at U.C. San Diego, said that while he and his peers would love to work in the city, “I’m positive that they all will leave.” The reason? It’s not so much the gap in pay relative to Bay Area employers, though that is a factor, as it is the location of many of San Diego’s tech companies, Mr. Bakst wrote. Most of San Diego’s tech jobs are in parts of the city — such as North County or Sorrento Valley — that they consider too far from downtown, San Diego’s cultural epicenter and millennial stamping ground." While it's easy in hindsight to see the foolishness of all this, I did work in Sorrento Valley in the 80's and 90's, and it was a wasteland in the boonies. As was Carlsbad's techno parks near the airport in the 00's, and Poway too. Not much to do about it now, I suppose.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 7, 2016 11:05:11 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/opinion/politicians-place-a-bet-on-a-stadium-and-vegas-pays-for-it.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0"The Oakland Raiders want to move to Las Vegas, and the city’s politicians, business leaders and legions of football fans are salivating. The catch, as usual, is the price tag. The Raiders want a new, 65,000-seat stadium as part of the deal, and they’re asking for the state to pitch in to cover the nearly $2 billion cost using a tax on Vegas-area hotel rooms. The Raiders’ owner, Mark Davis, has pledged $500 million, and the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson has offered $650 million. But both offers are contingent on the Nevada government’s ponying up the remaining $750 million. Gov. Brian Sandoval, a Republican, has called a special session of the Legislature next week to decide." Here's the NFL stadium scam being played in Vegas, just like in San Diego. Get the hotels to pay for it, and make the taxpayers feel off the hook, the Republican version of Crony Capitalism. Like the money couldn't be used for something better than subsidizing billionaires. But subsidizing billionaires is the contemporary status quo.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 19, 2016 0:25:58 GMT -5
forward.com/news/national/352203/sheldon-adelson-scores-touchdown-as-nevada-approves-750m-football-stadium-d/"Sheldon Adelson, the Jewish casino billionaire and political donor extraordinaire, has an unlikely benefactor – the citizens of Nevada. As part of a consortium of investors relocating the Oakland Raiders to the nation’s gambling capital, Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands company helped push through the state legislature $750 million in public funding to build a football stadium in the city. On Friday, the legislature narrowly approved the deal, and Adelson’s representatives exulted. “It’s exciting,” gushed Andy Abboud, head lobbyist for Las Vegas Sands, in an interview with the Associated Press. “But this is really about jobs, and I think at the end of the day people saw this as a fantastic economic stimulus package.” What gets built? I guess in today's world the status quo is: Whatever the billionaires want. Sadly, the labor unions are accomplices to all this, not only in Vegas but here in San Diego. And the architects are all lackeys too.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 2, 2016 2:05:42 GMT -5
Almost as much fun as the decision of which rotten Boomer will be our next Prez, is to see if San Diego taxpayers want to go into debt to buy a new Playpen for Billionaires. Oh, I forgot. It will be paid for by tourists. And if you believe that, I have a bridge for sale.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2016 2:55:32 GMT -5
Almost as much fun as the decision of which rotten Boomer will be our next Prez, is to see if San Diego taxpayers want to go into debt to buy a new Playpen for Billionaires. Oh, I forgot. It will be paid for by tourists. And if you believe that, I have a bridge for sale. People are not that stupid, they know they will foot the bill. They will get a high tax bill property tax bill would force people to move out. See people in Illinois liberals controlled city if shitcago and outskirts liberals raised the property taxes skyhigh it forced people to sell and moved out of their home they been living for so many years. And yes my Co worker mother was forced out to move out of her home can't afford to pay the extortion liberals taxes. If I was a mayor of some city if some NFL, NBA NHL MLB Wanted the city to cover half or almost all of it I would say f*** you asshole you got the money you pay for stadium cut the over priced players pay in half if you want stadium built, then I give you the permit to build one then I give you a tax break as long you hire legal Americans not illegals. If you don't like my terms get the f*** out. I don't care if I pissed off die hard sports fans, these losers don't believe it's fixed.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 9, 2016 16:55:46 GMT -5
Awww, looks like the Spanos stadium scam is going down to defeat. Will they move on to victimize another town that has more suckers?
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Post by jdredd on Mar 23, 2017 0:59:02 GMT -5
I haven't visited the local "what gets built" scene for awhile. Even after the NFL has left town (for now), there is still battles going on over the real estate left unbuilt. Downtown, there is a battle between some sleazy hotel developers and the people who want to expand the convention center. Legally, it looks like the sleazoids have the upper hand. Mayor Faulconer is caught in the middle. And in Mission Valley, it is a total free-for-all for what to do with the Q acreage, which is worth a fortune. So of course private developers want the city to give it to them for nothing. Plus SDSU wants a piece. Manchester and his Republican cronies wants to bring back those NFL thugs by building a super-duper new stadium. God help us. I, of course, being a environmental wacko want to bulldoze the whole property and make it a wildlife refuge. Or, if not that, give it back to the Kumeyaay Indians the Spanish stole it from. Casino, anyone?
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Post by jdredd on Mar 28, 2017 1:44:17 GMT -5
So the Great Wall of Trump is architecture too. Are we going to build this Monument to Hate? Tells a lot about America in 2017.
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Post by jdredd on May 10, 2017 1:13:36 GMT -5
Morris Cerullo, local Evilgelical preacher, is planning to build a "Christian Themed" Hotel in Mission Valley. It's going to include a replica of the Wailing Wall and the Catacombs. What, no cavemen riding dinosaurs?
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2017 6:20:47 GMT -5
Morris Cerullo, local Evilgelical preacher, is planning to build a "Christian Themed" Hotel in Mission Valley. It's going to include a replica of the Wailing Wall and the Catacombs. What, no cavemen riding dinosaurs? liberals like you hate Christians and other God related religion. Since liberals like you are terrorist Go join ISIS you repersoned terrorist F.uck. liberals and your Muzzie pals do have in common since you like to engage pedophile acts just like your radical Muzzie pals. Hopefully a drone will strike your safe space in your cave..
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Post by jdredd on May 10, 2017 14:57:07 GMT -5
Morris Cerullo, local Evilgelical preacher, is planning to build a "Christian Themed" Hotel in Mission Valley. It's going to include a replica of the Wailing Wall and the Catacombs. What, no cavemen riding dinosaurs? liberals like you hate Christians and other God related religion. Since liberals like you are terrorist Go join ISIS you repersoned terrorist F.uck. liberals and your Muzzie pals do have in common since you like to engage pedophile acts just like your radical Muzzie pals. Hopefully a drone will strike your safe space in your cave.. You certainly prove your Christian values by your level of civility in this forum.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2017 16:24:21 GMT -5
liberals like you hate Christians and other God related religion. Since liberals like you are terrorist Go join ISIS you repersoned terrorist F.uck. liberals and your Muzzie pals do have in common since you like to engage pedophile acts just like your radical Muzzie pals. Hopefully a drone will strike your safe space in your cave.. You certainly prove your Christian values by your level of civility in this forum. Who says Im a Religious Person!?? Speaking of civility have you looked in the Mirror? or better yet shut your pie hole! No one cares about your Anti American Commie liberal clap trap! Dance fool!
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