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he City Council authorized $54.4 million in interim bond financing Tuesday for the San Diego Convention Center expansion.
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The planned expansion of the San Diego Convention Center cleared a major hurdle Thursday, with the announcement that organized labor has dropped all opposition to the $520 million project.
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The San Diego City Council approved final financing and further design work Monday for the $520 million convention center expansion, even as it awaits the outcome of a pending lawsuit.
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San Diego Port Commissioners gave their blessing Wednesday to the long-planned convention center expansion, approving its voluminous environmental impact report and formalizing their commitment to contribute $60 million toward the project.
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Funding the $520 million expansion of the San Diego Convention Center has been much debated, with different factions boosting different ideas.
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Before the planned expansion of the San Diego Convention Center can move forward, numerous environmental impacts will have to be addressed, according to a voluminous report issued by the Port of San Diego.
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Public comments on its initial report are in and the Unified Port of San Diego is now tasked with turning its Environmental Impact Review on the proposed Convention Center expansion into a final proposal.
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The Port of San Diego went public yesterday with a draft Environmental Impact Report on a proposed expansion of the San Diego Convention Center and the neighboring Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel.
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The outcome of a lawsuit filed Thursday by San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith will likely determine whether a recently approved hotel tax increase will go into effect.
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A vote by hoteliers in favor of raising San Diego's room tax was formally certified Monday by the City Council, setting the stage for a legal fight over the levy's legality.
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The San Diego City Council will vote today on whether to ask a judge to weigh in on the legality of the funding plan for a proposed Convention Center expansion. But it’s another deal - that some say was struck to gain favor with local hotel owners - that has some people up in arms.
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Hoteliers passed a new room tax that will help finance a planned expansion of the San Diego Convention Center.
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Plans to expand the San Diego Convention Center took a major leap forward Tuesday, with the approval of a new room tax by local hoteliers.
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By 8 p.m. Monday, the fate of a planned $520 million expansion of the San Diego Convention Center will have been sealed, as hoteliers turn in the last of their ballots on a new room tax.
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San Diego's hoteliers got what they wanted from the city on Tuesday. The City Council gave them more control over the Convention Center's operations. The decision comes on the eve of the hoteliers' vote on financing the center's expansion through higher hotel-room taxes.
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The San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau won marketing control of the San Diego Convention Center Tuesday in a power play that pitted labor unions against hotel owners.
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As hoteliers prepare this month to begin voting on a special room tax that would help finance a $520 million expansion of San Diego’s Convention Center, the mayor’s office has been orchestrating a plan to effectively give the lodging industry more control over marketing of the center.
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A legal move by local hotel workers to block an upcoming vote by hoteliers to fund the San Diego Convention Center expansion with a special tax was turned aside Wednesday by a Superior Court judge.
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A San Diego Superior Court judge has denied a request from a local labor union to block a planned vote on the $520 million Convention Center expansion, City Attorney Jan Goldsmith's office said today.
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The hotel workers union on Friday sued to block a proposed tax that would be used to fund expansion for San Diego's convention center, arguing that it sidesteps a state law requiring approval by two-thirds of voters.
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In September 2008, San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders announced he wanted to expand San Diego's Convention Center. A lot has happened in the three and a half years since.
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In his final state of the city speech in January, outgoing Mayor Jerry Sanders plugged the expansion of the San Diego Convention Center, which he said would bring in $372 million in added visitor spending and $17 million in additional tax revenues each year.
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San Diego officials are plowing ahead with plans to expand the city’s convention center in a project that will require more than half a billion dollars of bonds.
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There are all sorts of plans swirling around san diego for the water front downtown.
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San Diego’s hoteliers will decide in April whether they want to levy a surcharge of up to 3 percent on hotel rooms to finance a $520 million expansion of the convention center, the City Council decided Tuesday.
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A proposal by U-T San Diego’s ownership and opinion arm that champions a football stadium, a sports arena and an expanded convention center along San Diego’s waterfront has revived a public debate over 96 acres of land long coveted by developers.
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The basic funding scheme for a $500 million expansion of the San Diego Convention Center was approved by the City Council on a 6-2 vote Tuesday.
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The City Council Tuesday created a special district to finance the proposed $520 million expansion of the San Diego Convention Center but labor leaders promised to fight the project.
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The San Diego City Council on Tuesday created a special district to finance the proposed $520 million expansion of the San Diego Convention Center but labor leaders promised to fight the project.
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San Diego’s hoteliers will decide in April whether they want to levy a surcharge of up to 3 percent on hotel rooms to finance a $520 million expansion of the convention center, the City Council decided Tuesday.
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Ask those who support expanding San Diego's Convention Center if the City Council has ever voted on a financing package for the $520 million project and you're more likely to receive a scoff than an answer.
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Mayor Jerry Sanders said Monday he opposes U-T San Diego's proposal for a new Chargers stadium and expanded convention center, but the newspaper's CEO said the city's plans are flawed.
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Another big City Council vote on San Diego's $520 million Convention Center expansion is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.
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Thanks to pension and budget crises, government dysfunction and a political culture of suspicion and mistrust, San Diego sometimes seems to have lost its ability to think big.
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The decisions now being made about the future of San Diego will help define our city and region for many decades to come.
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The Hotel Motel Association of San Diego County, a trade group of local hoteliers, has given conditional approval to a measure that would raise the bulk of funding for a proposed $520 million San Diego Convention Center expansion through a surcharge on hotel rooms.
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An association of San Diego hoteliers voted unanimously Thursday in support of a plan to finance the proposed convention center expansion with a levy on hotel rooms, despite past dissension within the lodging industry over its fairness.
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No better image captures the change in Jerry Sanders' priorities than the series of images projected on an immense screen before the San Diego mayor delivered his seventh and final State of the City Address on Wednesday night.
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Mayor Jerry Sanders pledged the financial problems that have plagued San Diego for the past decade — a chaotic era of escalating pension costs and devastating budget cuts for America’s Finest City — will end before he leaves office in December and make way for a new period of growth and prosperity.
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The San Diego City Council on Dec. 6 approved plans for a special financing district to support a proposed $520 million expansion of the San Diego Convention Center.
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The Convention Center expansion is one step closer to becoming a reality after the San Diego City Council approved a plan Tuesday that would require hotel guests to shoulder the bulk of the cost, despite criticisms from some hoteliers that the current setup is unfair.
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Everyone who spoke about the $520 million San Diego Convention Center expansion at City Hall on Tuesday agreed with Mayor Jerry Sanders.
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The Port of San Diego’s decision – however squishy – to help fund the expansion of the San Diego Convention Center is a welcome step forward on an issue of crucial importance to the region’s economy.
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The Port of San Diego conditionally agreed Tuesday to pay $60 million over 20 years to help finance a $520 million expansion of the San Diego Convention Center.
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San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders, Convention Center expansion program manager Charles Black and Convention Center Corp. board member Steve Cushman met recently with the U-T Community Editorial Board to discuss the San Diego Chargers’ proposal to halt existing plans for expansion of the waterfront Convention Center in order to study the Chargers’ idea of using that revenue to build a downtown stadium that would also serve the present Convention Center.
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All the major aspects of the plan to pay for San Diego's $550 million Convention Center expansion now are becoming clear. Mayor Jerry Sanders confirmed Thursday the money will come from both the city's day-to-day operating budget and the Unified Port of San Diego.
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San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders sought to reassure a group of hoteliers Thursday that a Chargers plan to build a new downtown stadium will not interfere with a proposed $550 million expansion of the Convention Center.
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Hoping to fill a funding gap for the planned expansion of the San Diego Convention Center, Mayor Jerry Sanders will ask the Port District to put up $60 million for the $550 million project.
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A financing plan to pay for the $550 million expansion of the San Diego Convention Center approved by the City Council in a 7-0 vote Oct. 10 would pave the way to establishing a special assessment district to tax both downtown and outlying hotels.
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The $550 million expansion of the San Diego Convention Center took its first legal step forward Monday, when the City Council approved a method for raising most of the money needed to pay for it.
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Could the idea succeed here? Has it worked anywhere else? Would San Diegans want to pay for any part of it?
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Architects for the San Diego Chargers are drawing up a plan for a stadium that includes convention center space.
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The Chargers said their proposal for a new stadium will include convention center space.
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These days it seems you can’t mention a Convention Center expansion without talking about a new Chargers stadium - but there isn’t an official link between the two projects.
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Build convention space in a new $800 million downtown stadium rather than building a $550 million convention expansion?
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The San Diego Chargers are examining the inclusion of convention center space as a design option for a potential new stadium in downtown San Diego, although city officials are standing by plans for an expansion of the existing convention center.
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The Chargers have asked their architects to produce an $800 million stadium plan that would include convention space and eliminate the need for a $550 million expansion to the San Diego Convention Center now being prepared.
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The City Council handed over management Tuesday to Mayor Jerry Sanders of the $550 million San Diego Convention Center expansion.
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Members of the public interested in helping influence the design of a planned expansion of the San Diego Convention Center are invited to meetings that will be held next week.
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In May we found out that hotel guests will be asked to pay for much of the half-billion dollars needed to expand the city's Convention Center. Increased hotel-room taxes will take care of $28 million to $30 million annually, or about three-quarters of what's required to finance the expansion.
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Plans for expansion of the economic force that is the San Diego Convention Center took a big step forward earlier this month with Mayor Jerry Sanders’ release of a common-sense proposal for the largest chunk of financing for the $550 million project.
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In search of a solution that will help his city expand its convention center, San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders has unveiled the first and largest piece of a proposed financing plan, which would raise taxes on hotels in order to generate revenue for the $550 million project, he announced this month.
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If Convention Center expansion supporters have their way, hotel visitors will pay more when they visit town, thanks to an extra charge on their bills.
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San Diego had one of the lowest hotel-room taxes around for major destinations.
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Last Thursday, San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders unveiled a funding proposal for the expansion of the convention center that would involve upping hotel taxes.
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San Diego City Council members agreed Tuesday that a proposed expansion of the Convention Center is crucial to the city’s economic future but raised a number of concerns that need to be addressed before a financing plan can be finalized.
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Mayor Jerry Sanders is scheduled to show his plan for expanding the San Diego Convention Center to the City Council on Tuesday.
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Local hotels would contribute up to $30 million annually to help finance a planned expansion of the San Diego Convention Center, under a proposal announced May 12 by Mayor Jerry Sanders.
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San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders has proposed adding new hotel fees to help pay for an expansion of the city's convention center.
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Sanders sat down with the town's hoteliers and announced that he wants them to band together and raise the city's hotel-room tax on visitors to fund the Convention Center expansion.
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San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders announced Thursday the first and largest component of a proposed financing plan to expand the San Diego Convention Center.
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As news emerges of a deal to fund the Convention Center today, watch for a new major pothole that could be in the way of the expansion project: the Convention Center itself.
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San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders called on the city’s hoteliers Thursday to contribute up to $30 million a year through a hotel room surcharge to help finance an expansion of the downtown convention center, a project now estimated to cost 24 percent less than the original $711 million price tag.
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The financial rewards of a planned expansion of San Diego’s Convention Center would seem a sure bet
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Two San Diego firms will work with Denver-based Fentress Architecture on proposed expansion
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Expanded Convention Center could be sweet if someone figures out how to pay for it
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When the San Diego Convention Center Board of Directors revealed the design firm behind a proposed expansion Tuesday, they were met with a lot of questions asking about funding
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A five-acre rooftop park, truck tunnel for exhibitors and 500-room hotel built on top of a nearby parking garage wowed officials yesterday as they announced the lead architect on the long-awaited San Diego Convention Center expansion, projected for completion in five years.
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Team includes Fentress Architects, John Portman & Associates and Civitas
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Fentress Architects to Work on Convention Center Expansion
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The plans for a new Convention Center took a big step forward
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Embracing a waterfront location
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The San Diego Convention Center Corp. Board of Directors voted to make Fentress Architects the design team
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Staff will review possible consultants for the board to select
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Allowing for business to expand
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To serve as project manager
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