SAN DIEGO-Proposals for three new hotels in the Pacific Beach area are riling local residents. The largest of the bunch is a 250-room facility proposed on Ocean Boulevard south of the Crystal Pier, near The Promenade mall.

SAN DIEGO-A 50-year lease extension request by the Boy Scouts of America for a camp at Balboa Park, being considered today by the San Diego City Council, has stirred up a civil liberties hornets' nest.

SAN DIEGO-The San Diego Housing Commission picks up the 60-unit Harbor View Villas Apartments for $4.2 million and will convert it from market rate to affordable housing.

SAN DIEGO-Developer Douglas Manchester's 34-story Downtown Grand Hyatt hotel has enlisted ISEC Construction Services to do conceptual design and construction plans for the 800,000-sf development scheduled to open in July 2003.

CARLSBAD, CA-More than half of the nine builds that comprise Genesis Corporate Centre have been leased or sold. Colliers is marketing the property for a trio of investors operating under the name Pacific Carlsbad Partners.

SAN DIEGO-A firm that helps fledgling biotech companies get off to a good start has renewed its lease for space in Shidler Group's Courtyard I project.

SAN DIEGO-Dole Fresh Fruit Co. plans to build a 20-acre, $15.4 million refrigerated container facility at the 10th Avenue Marine Terminal on San Diego Bay.<p>

OCEANSIDE, CA-In a $6 million project, Caltrans plans to add another rail along a 1.2-mile section of this north coastal city. The second track would run east of the current rail from just south of Oceanside Boulevard to Eaton Street, near the southern city limits.