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Old 08-19-2016, 03:58 PM
 
Location: Washington, DC area
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I took these two photos. One in 2006 and the other in 2016. I thought people here would like this.

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Old 08-19-2016, 04:23 PM
 
Location: 415->916->602
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San Diego is so beautiful.
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Old 08-19-2016, 08:14 PM
 
Location: Bonita, CA
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Great photos. What platform did you use to get these. Fixed wing or rotor? Military?
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Old 08-23-2016, 08:09 AM
 
Location: Washington, DC area
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Great photos. What platform did you use to get these. Fixed wing or rotor? Military?
Helicopter photo flight. (real helicopter, not a drone or quad).
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Old 08-23-2016, 08:47 AM
 
Location: La Mesa Aka The Table
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Helicopter photo flight. (real helicopter, not a drone or quad).
Nice!
Hasn't really changed much accept for the growing homeless problem in that area.
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Old 08-23-2016, 09:38 AM
 
Location: Verona, WI
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Thanks for sharing the photos. Looks like a lot more apartment/condo towers have popped up in the stadium area over the past 10 years. Could still use a some more business/office buildings down there to help build up the economic core.
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Old 08-23-2016, 02:22 PM
 
Location: Tijuana Exurbs
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The thing is, businesses don't want to locate in Downtown. They all seem to want to locate in University City and Sorrento Valley/Mesa (probably because senior management lives directly north of there). In the old days, large businesses were located near their workforce, and it was only small numbers of management which commuted long distances.

Anyway, more residential was needed in the City generally, and Downtown was the only area that was eager to take it. Downtown was filled with residential because it was being squeezed out of other areas do to community resistance and failure to invest in the neighborhoods. I bet a fair number of people living in those condo towers reverse commute to the north.
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Old 08-23-2016, 02:34 PM
 
Location: San Diego CA>Tijuana, BC>San Antonio, TX
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^^ Speaking of tech, they all seem to have clustered in the Sorrento Valley area around Quallcomm. The software development division of the Healthcare company I work for moved out of our Mission Valley offices recently and up North to Sorrento Valley despite available office space here with us and despite complaints from folks who live in MidCity, Southbay, and East County. The centralness of MV and Downtown is fantastic, but the tech companies want to be able to syphon off talent from Quallcomm, each other and UCSD. Hell, even Google is moving into Sorrento Valley.

Finance also seems to have a bigger presence in UTC/La Jolla area than downtown.
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Old 08-24-2016, 08:14 AM
 
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^^ Speaking of tech, they all seem to have clustered in the Sorrento Valley area around Quallcomm. The software development division of the Healthcare company I work for moved out of our Mission Valley offices recently and up North to Sorrento Valley despite available office space here with us and despite complaints from folks who live in MidCity, Southbay, and East County. The centralness of MV and Downtown is fantastic, but the tech companies want to be able to syphon off talent from Quallcomm, each other and UCSD. Hell, even Google is moving into Sorrento Valley.

Finance also seems to have a bigger presence in UTC/La Jolla area than downtown.
Downtown high-rise is expensive with limited parking and that makes it somewhat incompatible with the car-centric, suburban workforce of the tech industry. A lot of tech workers are living in rented units in the Mira Mesa / Carmel Valley / Carmel Mountain area. However I don't understand why companiess wouldn't want to locate a small satellite office in Downtown SD for their workforce. There is plenty of vacancy and lots of deals to be had for small floor plates. Sorrento Valley and UTC have become such a traffic nightmare that many good candidates would have to decline a job due to the commute.
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Old 08-24-2016, 11:37 AM
 
Location: La Costa, California
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yes great pictures! I see a big new scoreboard and some new buildings directly behind it, among other changes.

I shared here recently that I worked for a year building Petco park - as a blocklayer. Well a couple years ago I went back with an associate to bid on building an elevator there. I imagine it was the time when the new soreboard was built.

Well we didn't get the job but I was able to connect with some great memories of my new start out here in California and how well it's gone for my family Aloha
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