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san diego: Out & About San Diego with Jim Frimmer, Your Realtor in Mission Valley — Downtown San Diego from a Hornblower Harbor Cruise - 08/31/10 11:53 PM

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Downtown San Diego from a Hornblower Harbor Cruise
If you happen to be in San Diego and near downtown when the sun is shining and the temperature is pleasant (around 76°F), I can highly recommend taking a two-hour cruise on Hornblower Harbor Cruises, which I did this afternoon. Following are a few pictures of downtown San Diego from out on the water.
In this first picture, the screwdriver-looking building in the middle is … (11 comments)

san diego: Out & About San Diego with Jim Frimmer, your Mission Valley Realtor: The Coronado Bridge - 05/14/10 09:36 PM

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No trip to San Diego would be complete without a ride over San Diego's signature piece of public art: the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge.

    
 
Most of us know it simply as the Coronado Bridge because it lets us get quickly to the magnificent island of Coronado without having to buy a boat or drive around San Diego Bay — 15 miles down one side and then 15 miles back up the other side. … (8 comments)

san diego: Mission Valley condos, San Diego, California: Friars Pointe - 03/17/10 03:00 PM
Friars Pointe condominiums are located in eastern Mission Valley in San Diego, California. There are 189 units built in 1977-1978, and they range from 506 square feet to 690 square feet. Floor plans include one bedroom/one bathroom and two bedrooms/one bathroom.
The central location of Friars Pointe provides quick and easy access to Qualcomm Stadium, home of the San Diego Chargers, as well as world-class shopping and dining throughout Mission Valley.
Just blocks away at Fenton Marketplace there's a Costco, Lowes, Ikea, and Islands Restaurant, a new branch of the San Diego Public Library, and a San Diego Trolley station.
If you're … (6 comments)

san diego: One of my favorite San Diego skyscrapers - 03/14/10 11:54 PM
San Diego doesn't have a signature building like so many other cities do:
Empire State Building and Chrysler Building in New York City John Hancock Tower and the Sears Tower in Chicago Space Needle in Seattle However, there is one building which we call the Screwdriver Building that has always been one of my favorites:

It also happens to be San Diego's tallest skyscraper at exactly 500 feet tall. For some reason, that's the height limit on San Diego's skyscrapers. I don't know whether it's because the airport is right next to downtown or due to earthquakes. I'm guessing the … (7 comments)

san diego: Mission Valley condos, San Diego, California: Rancho Mission Villas - 03/05/10 02:34 PM
Rancho Mission Villas is a large condominium complex of 454 units in eastern Mission Valley in San Diego, California.
The central location of your Rancho Mission Villas condominium provides quick and easy access to Qualcomm Stadium, home of the San Diego Chargers, as well as world-class shopping and dining throughout Mission Valley.
Just blocks away at Fenton Marketplace there's a Costco, Lowes, Ikea, and Islands Restaurant, a new branch of the San Diego Public Library, and a San Diego Trolley station.
If you're a golfer, you'll enjoy the close proximity of your Rancho Mission Villas condo to both the Riverwalk Golf Course and … (3 comments)

san diego: Coronado Shores Towers: Luxury living on the beach - 02/05/10 11:22 PM
Way back in the 1960s and 1970s, a condo developer (probably from Florida) decided that the City of Coronado needed ten 15-story luxury condominium towers overlooking the city and its famous beaches.
At the time there were no zoning laws to prevent the developer from doing what developers like to do: develop!
While the first tower was being built, the City tried to enforce a 40-foot height limit, but there was no law in place stating such a limit. The City lost, and the first tower was completed in June 1971.
While subsequent condominium towers were being built, the City and … (8 comments)

san diego: Swamps in San Diego? - 01/31/10 10:38 PM
San Diego has some coastal areas featuring beaches (of course), tidepools (two of the remaining tidepools in Southern California), and lagoons.
Many of the lagoons were in the process of being destroyed in the name of progress until about a decade ago when people decided that the lagoons, and their wildlife, were worth preserving.
Many of the lagoons also have small streams that feed into them, small because we don't get much rain here. However, after last week's rains, many of those small streams make the tidepools and streams look like something from Louisiana or Florida.
    
    
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san diego: The City of San Diego's 121 neighborhoods - 01/19/10 01:43 PM
The City of San Diego has 101 defined neighborhoods, which are further divided into 121 neighborhoods by the San Diego Police Department for the purpose of compiling crime statistics.
Here are the 121 neighborhoods in alphabetical order:
Adams North Allied Gardens Alta Vista Azalea/Hollywood Park Balboa Park Barrio Logan Bay Ho Bay Park Bay Terraces Birdland Black Mountain Ranch Border Broadway Heights Burlingame Carmel Mountain Carmel Valley Castle Cherokee Point Chollas Creek Clairemont Mesa East Clairemont Mesa West Colina del Sol College East College West Core-Columbia Corridor Cortez Darnall Del Cerro Del Mar Heights East Village Egger Highlands El Cerrito Emerald … (8 comments)

san diego: The ActiveRain History Station: San Diego Rainmakers - 01/14/10 02:12 PM
San Diego gets an average of 11 inches of rain annually, most of it coming in December and January.
I think the only reason why the average annual rainfall is so high is because every seven or eight years we get deluged with 15-23 inches of rain, usually because of an El Niño winter.
It is not unusual for San Diego to suffer through several years of drought, but drought is a term used only when people are involved.
San Diego actually is a desert, and deserts typically don't get much rain. However, a desert with people that doesn't get much … (9 comments)

san diego: If it's cold, wet, rainy, or snowy where you are, this should help - 01/13/10 08:59 PM
I read a lot of blog posts today, and quite a few of them were talking about the weather, showing me pictures of frozen water, snow-covered trees, and just generally trying to make me feel really cold even though I'm hundreds of miles away.
Well, vengeance is mine! Check out the following statistics for 2009, from Lindbergh Field, San Diego's official weather station. It looks like 2010 so far is wanting to give us more of the same so far.
The lowest temperature was 42°F, on January 5 and December 25. The highest temperature was 98°F on April 20. Highest rainfall … (14 comments)

san diego: Downtown San Diego from Coronado Island - 01/10/10 08:58 PM
Some of the best views, if not the best views, of downtown San Diego and the San Diego Bay are from Coronado Island.
Coronado Island is also home to the Coronado Island Naval Station; the world-famous Hotel del Coronado, said to be the most expensive piece of real estate in the United States, having sold for $384 million back in 2001 or so; and Coronado Beach, which regularly ranks as one of the Top 5 beaches in the United States.
Since I was over on the Island holding an open house today, I also took some time to get some pictures … (4 comments)

san diego: The ActiveRain Nature Station: Birch Aquarium slide show - 01/07/10 08:24 PM
I finally sorted through the 187 pictures from my Birch Aquarium visit last Sunday to get a manageable 43-picture slide show — fish, coral, anemones, jellyfish, starfish, seahorses....
I also just read in the paper that the Birch Aquarium had a two-hour power outage yesterday but no wildlife was lost.
However, one of the electrical workers was injured, although not seriously.
Here are the 43 pictures that I'll be keeping. Hope you enjoy them.

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If you have a cat, or used to have a cat,and have a picture of the darling, post it here.
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san diego: Christmas Eve San Diego from Coronado Island - 12/27/09 07:33 PM
For the last 15 years, we've taken Christmas Eve off and driven around San Diego trying to catch Santa Claus and his reindeer flying through the air.
We've never been successful, but we usually find lots of light displays to take pictures of instead.
This year, however, seemed to be a bust. The neighborhoods that had the most magnificent displays for the past few years are also the neighborhoods that have been hardest hit by foreclosures. Perhaps there's a correlation?
Even the McMansions over on Coronado Island were severely lacking in holiday lighting displays this year, so we set up the camera … (12 comments)

san diego: Shopping to do but nowhere to park - 12/12/09 11:08 PM
San Diego County's largest, most prestigious, and most popular mall is Fashion Valley Shopping Center, and it's located at the western end of Mission Valley in the heart of San Diego.
It was renovated and expanded back in the late 1990s, with a huge transit station being built to handle traffic from busses and the San Diego Trolley. Three huge, multi-story parking garages were also built.
All of Mission Valley is a flood plain for the San Diego River, but the river, for the most part, is controlled. However, there are times with an El Niño winter season arrives and brings … (9 comments)

san diego: We have Fall colors in San Diego! - 11/15/09 07:13 PM
Don't think that I haven't been noticing that many of our Northern and Eastern folk have been proudly showing off their Fall colors.
After all, it is Fall.
I'm here to tell you that we, too, have Fall colors, just of a slightly different type.
So not to be outdone by the Appalachians, the New Englanders, the Canadians, the Rocky Mountaineers, or anyone else, I present for your viewing pleasure just some of the Fall colors in San Diego. All pictures were taken this past week, even the pictures of the flowers that "only" bloom in the Spring.
If the slide … (4 comments)

san diego: The ActiveRain Convention Station: It's San Diego week! - 11/08/09 03:32 PM
Coming into town for the 2009 Convention of the National Association of Realtors?
Need help with something?
Places to go?
Places to eat?
Tourist traps?
Best beaches?
Speed traps?
Let Russel and me know and we'll help you out. I have taken time off from Borders Books and Music, and Russel is going to try to schedule his home inspections for early in the morning so that we'll have afternoons and evenings off to meet our ActiveRain friends.
We also will be playing docent for at least one tour of the San Diego Zoo, and I'll be posting all this coming … (4 comments)

san diego: You have to go here when you come to the NAR Convention in November - 10/31/09 10:14 AM
When you come to San Diego in a couple of weeks for the 2009 NAR Convention, put Cabrillo National Monument on your schedule of things to do.
It doesn't matter whether the day is sunny and clear, cloudy and raining, or just some good ol' Los Angeles haze, the views of North Island Navy Base, downtown San Diego, the Silver Strand, the Hotel del Coronado, and Tijuana are unmatched from anywhere else in the area.
Yesterday was, perhaps, the most beautiful day at Cabrillo that I've ever seen in the 31 years I've lived here, so I got some great pictures … (9 comments)

san diego: Public art along San Diego's Embarcadero - 10/25/09 08:50 PM
The San Diego Port Commission is in charge of just about everything related to the San Diego waterfront.
That means that the Port Commission gets to decide on what public art is appropriate along the waterfront.
Sometimes they hit a home run, other times they strike out.
I'll let you decide on the newest crop of public art that has shown up on the waterfront. If the slide show here doesn't work on your computer, simply click on "View All Images" to watch it at slide.com.



 
********** If you're looking for a great condominium in Mission Valley,the heart … (6 comments)

san diego: Mission Valley condos: If you spend too much time looking.... - 10/20/09 06:41 PM
There was a top-floor, ocean- and golf course-view condominium in Mission Valley that came on the market a couple of months ago.
My Buyers fell in love with it but told me, "We want to look around some more" even though it was exactly what they told me they were looking for, and the price was right -- more than right actually.
Unfortunately, top floor condominiums with ocean- and golf course-views in Mission Valley that are priced right -- or wrong! -- don't stay on the market for any length of time, and this one didn't either.
Late that night I … (7 comments)

san diego: A tour of Cancer Survivors Park in downtown San Diego - 10/18/09 01:46 PM
Since October is Cancer Awareness Month, here's a tour of San Diego's Cancer Survivors Park and the Positive Mental Attitude Walk downtown on Harbor Drive near Spanish Landing.
Figures 1-2 are the view across the marina from the Cancer Survivors Park.
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Figure 5. West entrance.
Figure 6. Bench in the middle of Figure 5.
Figure 7. Pavilion at east entrance.
Figures 8-13 are pictures of the benches in the East entrance pavilion.
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Figures 14-16 are of the water fountain and sculpture.
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