Wednesday, January 4, 2012 By Tom Fudge, Gary London SAN DIEGO — The San Diego housing market has been mired in a slump of low prices and low demand, due to a lack of financing. But the desire to buy homes hasn’t gone away. And that pent-up demand will eventually require the construction of more homes. But [...]
By Alan Nevin As published in The Daily Transcript: December 21, 2011 It's turban time! It is that time of year when I gaze into the future and make inevitably accurate projections for the coming year in San Diego County. It all starts with jobs and that's a good thing because San Diego County gained [...]
By Gary London While there are valued manufacturing concerns active and presumably profitable in San Diego, the overall “footprint” for manufacturing is diminishing, and the number of manufacturing jobs has fallen dramatically. In the last 11 years, the San Diego region has lost 30,000 manufacturing jobs. This 25 percent reduction (from 122,000 jobs in 2000 [...]
By Alan Nevin The West Coast of Canada has seen a remarkable influx of folks from China and Taiwan over the past quarter century. One of the prime reasons for this is the availability of a "business immigration program.” The program is simple: Bring in $250,000 and put 10 people to work in a new [...]
by Gary H. London Technology has and is changing banking. This has presented both opportunities and dilemmas for bankers. They have many customers who prefer business as usual. Write a check; hand-balance a checking account; walk into the bank with a deposit. Over the short term, banks are dealing with a difficult economy. Yet, over [...]
By Gary H. London Steve Jobs changed the world in a way that few have. He was a combination of Albert Einstein, P.T. Barnum and Billy Graham — an inventor whose genius was putting on a long-running show with evangelical fervor such that he changed the world forever. I'm not sure that there is a [...]
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by Gary H. London President Barack Obama recently offered up his “jobs” recovery plan. I am eager to support the president in his efforts to put Americans back to work. Infrastructure should play a key role. The nation would benefit for generations by building new roads and bridges or repairing the old ones. We need [...]
by Gary H. London Do you want to have a glimpse into what I see as the future of the San Diego entitlement process for most development projects? That glimpse is provided courtesy of Jonathan Segal and GLJ Partners, the developer and the money partner, whose Fat City Lofts will offer up a 237-unit apartment [...]