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Massive Japanese Lifestyle Store Draws Huge Crowds For Grand Opening In San Diego's La Jolla
San Diego's growing obsession with Japanese snacks, anime collectibles and Asian beauty products has a massive new destination, and shoppers are already lining up to get inside. Ebisu Life Store has officially opened at La Jolla Village Square, bringing thousands of imported products to a sprawling retail space that attracted enormous crowds during its grand opening celebration.
Eater
The Saddest Restaurant Closures in San Diego, Fall 2026
Tracking the loss of new and old restaurants in San Diego. In the current dining landscape, San Diego restaurants face challenges like the rising cost of goods, labor shortages, and evolving customer expectations. Everything from longtime city institutions to newer places unable to find their footing can succumb to a combination of obstacles, although San Diego restaurateurs and chefs remain resilient — just check out Eater’s hot new restaurants map for proof. This column keeps track of all the closures you may have missed.
Times of San Diego
Workers shift to ‘shovels instead of spreadsheets’ after challenge of making new affordable housing in San Diego pencil out
A piece of Father Joe’s Villages’ ambitious goal to build 2,000 affordable housing units for vulnerable San Diegans fell apart two years ago. A new construction technology has resurrected the project, which breaks ground Monday. The eight-story building at the corner of Island Avenue and 16th Street is...
Times of San Diego
Why San Diego’s Shelltown was once prime real estate for Navy officers
Realtors often say that when buying into a neighborhood, it’s all about location, location, location, and back in the day, San Diego’s Shelltown offered just that. In the early 1900s, Shelltown had a special draw for Navy officers: views of their ships in San Diego Bay and fast access to the waterfront if duty called. Its history illustrates how proximity to the waterfront helped shape a neighborhood and attracted residents whose lives were connected to the Navy.
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Logan Heights Church Breaks Ground on 43 Affordable Homes by 2028
3186 & 3190 Franklin Ave. — Approximate Site of Affordable Housing Groundbreaking. A longtime Logan Heights church just turned its own property into the foundation for 43 affordable homes. Logan Temple AME Zion Church has partnered with developer LogosFaith Development on a project called Logos Logan Legacy Place, breaking ground at 3186 and 3190 Franklin Avenue on land the church already owns.
Silicon Valley
California biotech lays off nearly all its staff after drug trial failure and 2 patient deaths
San Diego biotech Artiva Biotherapeutics is laying off about 94% of its workforce and abandoning its lead immunotherapy treatment for rheumatoid arthritis roughly five months after raising about $300 million from investors. The company said Tuesday that updated data showed its lead candidate, AlloNK — an off-the-shelf natural killer cell...
chulavistatoday.com
Teresa Acosta: “Housing and Local Control Are the Challenges Facing Cities”
Latino representation in the spaces where statewide public policy is shaped has a new leader at the League of California Cities. Teresa Acosta, a Carlsbad councilmember since 2020, became president of the organization on September 25, becoming the second Latina to hold the position in the association’s 128-year history, she said during an interview with Fanny Miller, publisher of El Latino San Diego.
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KKR Pours $475M Into San Diego Life Science Campus Amid Vacancy Slump
KKR has struck a $475 million joint venture deal for a stake in one of San Diego's largest life science campuses, betting on a market that has been battered by rising vacancies and falling rents. The investment targets Campus Point, a nearly 2-million-square-foot complex in the University Town Center submarket owned by Alexandria Real Estate Equities, with tenants including major pharmaceutical and research names.
Escondido Times-Advocate
Bricks and Minifigs, a Lego store, hosts grand opening
A brand-new retailer of Lego and related products in Escondido, Bricks and Minifigs, hosted the grand opening Saturday, August 22, in the Promenade shopping center in Escondido. This popular chain for Lego collectors and enthusiasts has over 300 stores nationwide but just recently opened their first Escondido location. The new store is owned and operated by Jared Leach. The store […] The post Bricks and Minifigs, a Lego store, hosts grand opening first appeared on Escondido Times-Advocate .
California Jobs Desk
San Diego healthcare jobs: hospital nursing, travel ICU, lab science, and home health physical therapy
San Diego’s lineup spans bedside care, travel assignments, lab science, and home-based rehab. Kaiser Permanente’s Staff RN role is a hospital nursing position at Zion, while TravelNurseSource and AlliedTravelCareers feature ICU nursing and physical therapy contracts with set shifts and assignment lengths. Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Scientist opening is a fully onsite laboratory role in Carmel Valley focused on analytical chromatography, and Lifespan Therapy offers a part-time home health PT role serving South Bay San Diego communities.
Silicon Valley
California biotech experiments with treatment for Parkinson’s. Now it’s going public.
Aspen Neuroscience, a San Diego biotech developing a therapy to replace brain cells lost to Parkinson’s disease, announced plans Monday for an initial public offering. The company has been developing regenerative therapies since 2018. Its lead candidate, sasineprocel, is an experimental treatment that takes a patient’s own skin cells, reprograms them into stem cells and develops them into neuron precursors. Those cells are then transplanted into the brain to replace lost dopamine-producing neurons.