SAN DIEGO-A locally-based developer of senior living facilities has received a $44.5 million construction loan for Maravilla, a 363-unit project in Santa Barbara.

OCEANSIDE, CA-Up to $1.7 million has been set aside by the city for nearly 200 senior multifamily dwellings at Canyon Drive and Bush Street. The $19 million apartment project on five acres will be an extension of the Vintage Pointe senior housing project

SAN DIEGO-Two reports unveiled recently forecast trouble for San Diego's fast-rising housing market. Although job growth has been furious over the last seven years, housing hasn't even begun to keep up.

CARLSBAD, CA-With comparable prices ranging from $140 to $155 per sf, the sale price of $169 per sf is believed to be a record for concrete tilt-up construction in Carlsbad, according to Peter Andrich, a broker in the Irvine office of Cushman & Wakefield.

CHULA VISTA, CA-Activity at the Southrail Business Park is brisk, with Westcore Industrial Properties signing four leases and renewing two at its Southrail Business Park in Chula Vista.

CARLSBAD, CA-A mixed-use community now being proposed for the area would include 100 apartment units, office and retail space, an assisted living facility and more than 2.1 million sf of industrial. City planners have given the project a thumbs up.

CHULA VISTA, CA-The first phase of a project boosters say will change the face of this South County city's Downtown is now complete, adding 102,259 sf of office and retail space.

SAN DIEGO-Infrastructure work at the Downtown Ballpark project is moving forward briskly, with some 20,000 tons of contaminated soil being removed. In addition to the soil hauled out of the area, about 1,300 tons of soil has been deemed regulated waste and set aside for future reuse as fill material, resulting in a cost savings of about $100,000.