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San Diego performs ・three San Diego scientists awarded the Breakthrough Prize for 2018

San Diego performs.

Three of the seven Breakthrough Prize awards (each of $3 million; founded in 2012 by tech entrepreneurs including Sergey Brin, the Google co-founder; Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook co-founder; and Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of personal genomics company 23 and Me) for 2018 went to San Diego scientists in recognition of their research and achievements in life science, bio-medicine, and math. The prize for achievement in math is shared equally between UCSD and the University of Utah collaborators.

It is a short distance from downtown San Diego walk-ability and luxury, such as the Kohn-Pedersen-Fox-designed Pacific Gate, with interior design by Hirsch Bedner Associates (HBA), not only to the airport but also to the universities and research institutes.

See:

“Sweet recognition — and major cash — for three San Diego scientists with Breakthrough Prize” | Bradley J. Fikes, The San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 December 2017

Breakthrough Prize

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Downtown San Diego | early morning vistas

Early morning vistas.

San Diego is, indeed, beautiful and has what is widely acknowledged as one of the best, if not the best, micro-climate in the United States. Very Mediterranean.

Why “tech”, that I appear to mention so often and that is taking root in the downtown San Diego economic eco-system?

“Tech,” in my mind, is no more than information gathering, processing, analyzing, reporting, and using, with certain questions asked (by people), the questions usually having to do with certain industries (art, finance, transport, design, building and construction, chemistry, physics, aerospace engineering, entertainment, etc.).

Sort of like groups of individual Marines gathering, processing and using information, on steroids.

Why pay attention to tech in downtown San Diego? Some of these companies have just appeared downtown, willy nilly, not according to the city plan. People in the tech industry generally speaking make more money than those working in the hospitality industry (housekeeping, serving tables, etc.). It is money generated here rather than earned elsewhere and brought here by visitors, tourists, and buyers of second or third homes.

 

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Rethinking Downtown San Diego | Luxury, Tech, Demand

Downtown San Diego is seeing significant developments.

Nat Bosa, recognizing that downtown has some very special attributes (weather, proximity to the sea, proximity to the airport, proximity to great schools and research institutions, entirely walkable, …), is very active in downtown San Diego.

Bosa Development’s KPF-designed Pacific Gate is well underway.

Savina is a next project by Bosa. Savina will be close both to the water and to Little Italy. Price points have not yet been released. More information about Savina will become available next week, on May 4.

The downtown San Diego economy, further, is shifting. A growing number of tech firms are choosing to situate themselves downtown.

  • UCSD is taking permanent space downtown

With members of the tech cohort amongst the highest earners in San Diego, this may well have a significant impact on both the economy and the demand for downtown real estate.

See:

“The Man Behind the Bosa Brand” | Bosa Development

Kohn Pedersen Fox, Pacific Gate

Savina

Tech Organizations in Downtown San Diego by Category | Carto

San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation, Technology

“Downtown San Diego, The Innovation Economy’s Next Frontier” | Downtown San Diego Partnership & the UC San Diego Extension Center for Research on the Regional Economy, April 2016

“UC San Diego Sees Downtown as Innovation’s Next Frontier” | UC San Diego Extension Blog, February 2017

San Diego’s Technology Cluster | San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation

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