Six years after opening Pacific Beach’s escapist tiki bar, the Grass Skirt, owner Matt Spencer is inviting guests into his newest creation, a nautical gin bar that’s now accepting online bookings and limited walk-ins on board its nightly speakeasy-style sophisticated booze cruise. Spencer’s hospitality group, SDCM, which employs 600 people across its local restaurants and bars that include […]
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The former North County Times building in Oceanside is about to undergo $11.4 million in renovations by HP Investors to transform the former newspaper building into a mix of retail and office space. “The bones of the building need a lot of work. That’s the first order of business,” said Sumeet Parekh, managing partner of […]
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Creative apparel company co-founded by actor Mark Wahlberg will anchor North County Times Building HP Investors is excited to announce the recent lease signing with MUNICIPAL at the North County Times building in Oceanside, CA. MUNICIPAL plans to house their operations here including a retail storefront, all totaling over 16,300 SF. San Diego-based HP Investors, […]
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“You have nobody working. There’s no active spaces, and that means you have streets that are quiet and dark and empty at night, which makes people feel unsafe,” one developer says. After Isaac Abid arrived in the Bay Area in 2014 to open the Oakland office of San Diego developer HP Investors, he watched as […]
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Like the layers of atmosphere that protect our planet from the extreme temperatures and radiation from space, facades provide buildings with the filters and shields that make them habitable for living, play, and work. “The facade is the interface between humans and nature. Our job is to elevate that relationship as much as possible,” says […]
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Civic San Diego approved the group’s plans to develop a dynamic 32-story mixed-use residential building which complements the city’s plans for a new four-acre park in East Village. The new park, East Village Green, will be a cultural epicenter for families, workers and visitors in San Diego’s largest neighborhood. SAN DIEGO (February 13, 2019) — In late […]
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The contingent of craft distilleries in the East Village adds a new compatriot today with the official debut of Storyhouse Spirits. Installed in a longstanding building at the corner of Park Boulevard and J Street, the 7,600-square-foot site has been reconfigured into a two-level showcase for its house spirits and food. Co-founders Steve Kuftinec and Matt […]
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HP Investors’ Managing Partner Selected as the Downtown San Diego Partnership Board Chair for 2019
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Sumeet is an unwavering advocate for our community, and I know he will continue to serve Downtown San Diego in this leadership position.Betsy Brennan, President and CEO of the Downtown San Diego Partnership SAN DIEGO (January 3, 2019) — Today, the Downtown San Diego Partnership, which seeks to promote an economically prosperous and culturally vibrant urban center […]
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A Maryland-based company unveiled plans Wednesday for a more than $200 million development in East Village that would include apartments, office space and room for retail. The Foulger-Pratt Companies project — for now called Block F Makers Quarter — would be 32 stories and take up an entire block bounded by 15th and 16th streets between F […]
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“It’s not too much of a stretch to say that Block D is a really critical part of the Makers Quarter planning process” Mark Cafferty, President and CEO of the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. Small though it may be, the brand new 60,000-square-foot office development in East Village’s Makers Quarter is envisioned as the […]