SAN DIEGO-Site work has begun on Park Laurel, a two-tower luxury residential development across the street from Balboa Park. Park Laurel's first phase is more than 50% pre-sold at prices ranging from $800,000 to $3 million.

ESCONDIDO, CA-A plan to transform the former Montgomery Ward store downtown into a 16-screen movie complex is before city leaders. The city has been without a movie theater for more than a year.

SAN DIEGO-Kohl's department stores is looking at sites in San Diego County for up to five facilities as part of an aggressive expansion into Southern California.

SAN DIEGO-Longs Drug Stores and KinderCare Learning Centers have snatched up two spaces in the Winchester Meadows Shopping Center. Combined, the deals are valued at $1.87 million.

CHULA VISTA, CA-An industrial specialist is negotiating with prospective tenants to fill the remainder of a 16-building complex it purchased earlier this year for $12.4 million.

ESCONDIDO, CA-An investment company has bought a free-standing 18,700-sf industrial building for $2 million. Veritek is the sole tenant in the build-to-suit project, executing a sale-leaseback for five years commencing this year.

SAN DIEGO-The station occupies 26,000 sf, including a street-side studio and newsroom with windows facing Horton Plaza and Broadway Avenue, reminiscent of NBC's TODAY Show in New York City's Rockefeller Center.

SAN DIEGO-A business group representing the fast-growing area north of Downtown, has failed in its first attempt to change the name Hawthorn Street to Little Italy Way.