NATIONAL CITY, CA-City officials hope to create a 300-plus acre center for maritime activities in National City that will positively affect the largely industrial businesses in the surrounding area.

SAN DIEGO-Publicly traded UnitedAuto Group-West purchases a 28,217-sf building from a unit of General Electric as part of a plan to spruce up its properties along Kearny Mesa Road.

SAN DIEGO-The city's apartment market may be showing signs of loosening as the area's vacancy rate is to rise as a result of the boom in construction and the slow economy.

SAN DIEGO-A locally-based real estate investment trust has reported improved earnings for the fourth quarter and fiscal year of 2001.

TEMECULA, CA-In a deal valued at more than $30 million, a Los Angeles-based company has purchased a building occupied by The Scott Co., a supplier and distributor of lawn and garden care products.

CARLSBAD, CA-One of the new buildings that comprises the 102,000-sf Genesis Corporate Centre campus has a new tenant--the city's chamber of commerce.

OCEANSIDE, CA-City leaders here vote to ask the California Coastal Commission to delay its decision on a proposed development by Manchester Resorts until after Manchester can respond to commission staff concerns that led to their recommending a denial.

SAN DIEGO-Biosite Inc. is buying land from H. G. Fenton Company in Fenton Technology Park in the Miramar area of San Diego for a new corporate headquarters. Construction will occur in phases, with an initial build-out of 200,000 sf.