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2 weeks ago | 
sdbj.com | Donald Bloodworth
SAN DIEGO – Abramson Architects is expanding its life science practice in San Diego with an eye toward increasing the firm’s overall presence in the region. “Our goal is to piggyback on the healthcare work that we’re doing out of the San Diego office to actually grow our practice to other market sectors in San Diego,” said Trevor Abramson, founding partner at Abramson Architects. Abramson said the firm designs religious, retail, school and multifamily projects in its Los Angeles headquarters.
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3 weeks ago | 
sdbj.com | Donald Bloodworth |Jeff Clemetson
SAN DIEGO – Sunflower Bank is growing in Southern California, most recently sprouting up a San Diego office in the Kilroy Sabre Springs office park. The Dallas-based bank announced its plans to bring its relationship-focused commercial banking, private banking and wealth management services to Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernadino, Orange and San Diego Counties in May of last year.
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1 month ago | 
sdbj.com | Donald Bloodworth
SAN DIEGO – After more than a decade operating primarily in China, pharmaceutical developer Connect Biopharma is getting acquainted with San Diego as its new base of operations. Connect is the developer of drug candidates aimed at treating autoimmune and inflammatory diseases like asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and dermatitis.
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1 month ago | 
sdbj.com | Donald Bloodworth
SAN DIEGO – Seeing an industry-wide unmet need, VIE Technologies is utilizing artificial intelligence to transform electrical transformers. With an estimated 70% of electrical transformers across the U.S. approaching the end of their effective lifespan and multi-year lead times for replacements, predicting potential failures could be critical to maintaining the country’s energy grid.
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1 month ago | 
sdbj.com | Donald Bloodworth
SAN DIEGO – Health care IT specialist XiFin Inc. reported strong growth for 2024, noting that revenue climbed 19% year over year. The business works squarely within the medical billing space, specializing in products for revenue cycle management (abbreviated RCM). The company interacts with medical providers, pharmacies, insurers and other businesses to do its work.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
sdbj.com | Donald Bloodworth
LA JOLLA – Designer and builder Paul Basile is teaming up with interior designer Jules Wilson to open a new La Jolla restaurant in a Girard Avenue building that had been home to Adelaide’s flower shop for 75 years. Adelaide’s moved to a new location in 2020. “It’s going to be a little bit of me, a little bit of Jules. It’s going to be a combination of our traits,” Basile said.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
sdbj.com | Donald Bloodworth
SAN DIEGO COUNTY – A handful of industrial buildings sold at the end of 2024 and into 2025 in what has been a tepid market for industrial real estate. They included the January sale of a 21,481-square-foot Carlsbad building at 5924 Balfour Court to a Chinese company – Yunqun. Yunqun, a medical device manufacturer, will use 12,105 square feet of the building for its manufacturing business with plans to move in later this year, according to Chris Baumgart, managing director of JLL.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
sdbj.com | Donald Bloodworth
SOLANA BEACH – A new restaurant is coming to Solana Beach, but the proprietors are no strangers to San Diego County. Co-owned and co-founded by Rancho Santa Fe resident Richard Staunton and Jim Ulcickas, the Bluewater Grill family of restaurants based in Orange County will launch Mia’s Solana Beach in April of this year. Mia’s will be the third local venture for Staunton and Ulcickas, joining county hotspots Bluewater Grill Carlsbad and Bluewater Boathouse Seafood Grill in Coronado.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
sdbj.com | Donald Bloodworth
SAN DIEGO COUNTY – A spark of change in financial wellness for some San Diego County families is growing brighter. Residents considered low- and middle-income earners in the North County and in the city of San Diego’s Southeast region are part of a new initiative from the United Way of San Diego County called SparkPoint.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
sdbj.com | Donald Bloodworth
SAN DIEGO – One of the Gaslamp Quarter’s oldest lodging establishments – inside a building developed in 1904 at Broadway and Fifth Avenue – is now one of San Diego County’s newest hotels. It took family-owned hotel management company Oram Holdings’ operators, Kevin Mansour and Alvin Mansour five years to revamp and open downtown San Diego’s Granger Hotel, but the brothers’ work and wait have been well worth it.
