SAN DIEGO-A suburban office portfolio of about 500,000 sf is on the sales block, in a deal eventually expected to fetch about $80 million. The five low-rise and mid-rise projects are located in Del Mar Heights, Carmel Mountain Ranch, Kearny Mesa and Mission Valley.

SAN DIEGO-The search for a developer to build a convention center hotel on the former Campbell Industries shipyard property has resumed. The development has been billed a "must-do project.

SAN DIEGO-In a demonstration of the formidable power of the North County's office market, the Shidler Group has sold a 72,500-sf office building at 5505 Morehouse Dr. in Sorrento Mesa for $16.2 million.

SAN DIEGO-The city will go to court next month to try and quash a $94 million verdict awarded to Roque de la Fuente II, developer of an Otay Mesa business park.

SAN DIEGO-More than a dozen local projects, including two major public works projects -- the Camino Ruiz Bridge and Lindburgh Field's runway -- won awards late last month from the American Society of Civil Engineers.

SAN DIEGO-The logistics firm is the first to occupy space in Siempre Viva Business Park's recently completed 230,000-sf, three-building expansion. The space will be used for warehousing.

SAN DIEGO-A 117-year-old architecture school signs a long-term lease for its rapidly growing local program. The lease is for a 33,000-sf building near the Gaslamp Quarter.

POWAY, CA-City leaders last week approved plans by a Kearny Mesa auto dealership owner for a Mitsubishi franchise on Poway Road.