SAN DIEGO—The San Diego region is leading the country in adopting and integrating "Smart City" technologies into public and private planning efforts, which will affect issues down to individual building performance, experts revealed at a recent ULI event.

IRVINE, CA—Commercial tenants are embracing the conflict-free model more than ever before, which Savills Studley, having recently acquired Cresa Orange County, is now positioned to provide more than ever, company principals tell GlobeSt.com.

SAN DIEGO—These four areas present a unique combination of opportunity for our region, which has a level of collaboration not seen in other markets, Regional EDC's Mark Cafferty tells attendees at BMC's 21st Annual Real Estate Conference here last week.

IRVINE, CA—We need to stop addressing this issue through competing interests fighting each other, and the state needs to find a way to bring those interests together in a way that puts less constraint on developers, CCN's Tim Paone tells GlobeSt.com.

SAN DIEGO—While not as optimistic as Arthur Laffer, who spoke before him during BMC's 21st Annual Real Estate Conference here last week, CBRE's Spencer Levy enumerates the many reasons he believes things are looking up economically.

SAN DIEGO—In studying our current economic situation from a historical perspective, the US is poised for enormous growth, predicts economist Arthur Laffer during the BMC's 21st Annual Real Estate Conference here yesterday.

IRVINE, CA—Timing is a major issue in these projects as this point; if a project is not far enough along in drawings, permits, etc., it may not make it off the ground, R.D. Olson's Bill Wilhelm tells GlobeSt.com after attending ALIS.

SAN DIEGO—Restaurants that include a brewery concept, as well as athletic amenities like soccer fields, are springing up in life-science space in the San Diego market, JLL's Grant Schoneman tells GlobeSt.com.