Tim Brick, Retired Chair of MWD, Opines on Met's Priorities & Options
Tim, with the benefit of more than 25 years of service on the board of the Metropolitan Water District, what today is MWD’s chief priority with regards to water supply for Southern California?Tim...
View ArticleNew 'UC San Diego.Urban' Looks To Spur City & University Innovation
Mary Walshok: I’d like to share with you the value proposition that is bringing the University of California-San Diego downtown. We’re creating a major platform—a central hub—that we’re calling...
View ArticleSan Diego Mayor Touts Commitment to Sustainability, Launches Pure Water...
Preface: San Diego has launched an ambitious initiative to meet one-third of its water demand from recycled water by 2035. The multi-year, $3 billion Pure Water San Diego program will reduce the city’s...
View ArticlePort of San Diego’s Seaport Village Chooses Gafcon’s Integrated Master Plan...
Describe the real estate development niche that your company, Gafcon, fills in Southern California and internationally.Yehudi Gaffen: As a company, we’re in the physical built environment to help...
View ArticleIrwin Jacobs on Entrepreneurship: 'You Can't Do Everything Yourself'
Mary Walshok: What drew you here?Irwin Jacobs: I was teaching at MIT at the time in electrical engineering, and that was quite fascinating. My wife and I decided to take a one-year leave of absence to...
View ArticleFormer San Diego Planning Director Bill Anderson on Reviving the City's...
Bill, the San Diego City Planning Department is now being unmerge by new Mayor Filner. Please share the 21st century organizational history of San Diego’s approach to city planning?Bill Anderson:...
View ArticleBill Fulton Tasked by Mayor with Reconstituting San Diego City’s Planning...
Former San Diego Mayor Filner, early in his brief tenure, began carrying out his campaign promise to reconstitute city planning in San Diego as a stand-alone department. What explains his focus on...
View ArticleSan Diego Mayoral Candidate Barbara Bry on Addressing Affordability Without...
State Senator Scott Wiener’s contentious housing bill, SB 50, was recently put on a two-year calendar by the State Senate Appropriations Committee. The bill would have given the state jurisdiction over...
View ArticleSan Diego Council President Georgette Gómez on 'Pandemic Through the Lens of...
Council President Gómez, share the representational & operational challenges presented by COVID-19 that demand your attention as a Councilmember? And, as Council President, the city and...
View ArticleMayoral Candidate Barbara Bry on San Diego City’s Path to Economic Recovery
TPR has interviewed a number of mayors and civic leaders including with your city council president about the challenges in the midst of a pandemic of meeting the economic and survival needs of the...
View Article
