San Diego: Projects and Developments

dragonsky · #1 Posted: **Apr 5, 2012, 4:10 AM**

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Originally Posted by San Diego Union-Tribune

The approval of a permanent version of the 25-foot "Unconditional Surrender" statue of a sailor kissing a nurse. The port gave backers one year to raise the necessary funds and the USS Midway Museum board voted to take on fund-raising duties.

Read More: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/...ss-statue-app/

dragonsky · #2 Posted: **Apr 22, 2012, 3:43 AM**

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dragonsky · #3 Posted: **Apr 22, 2012, 5:18 AM**

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Originally Posted by PR Web

San Diego Region: Bayshore Bikeway Extends Mileage Through City of Chula Vista's Bayfront
San Diego leaders, bicyclists and residents came together in the city of Chula Vista on Saturday, March 24 to celebrate the completion of a new 1.8-mile segment of the Bayshore Bikeway, which will eventually loop for 24 miles around San Diego Bay. To date, 14.3 miles of the bikeway have been built. The world-class recreational amenity is more than half completed.

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dragonsky · #4 Posted: **May 15, 2012, 1:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by USS Midway Museum

Save the Kiss
Save A San Diego Landmark
Midway Will Match Your Donation to Save "The Kiss!"

The joy of peace in America. No photograph captured the joy of war’s end in 1945 more than the photo taken of an unknown sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square. It symbolizes the contributions and sacrifices made by our Greatest Generation: the 16 million Americans who defended America in World War II.

A temporary 25-foot plastic statuary of that sailor-and-nurse embrace is located along San Diego’s Embarcadero. It has become a highly visible landmark and significant icon of San Diego’s proud military heritage. Thousands of visitors annually have visited this uniquely inspirational tribute to service and sacrifice in uniform. Unfortunately “The Kiss” will disappear from San Diego in May! San Diego has less than two months to raise approximately $200,000 to commission a permanent, bronze replacement that will honor the Greatest Generation for decades to come.

Read More: http://www.midway.org/save-the-kiss

dragonsky · #5 Posted: **May 25, 2012, 1:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by USA TODAY

What's the best beach in America?
By Laura Bly, USA TODAY

If you believe the hotly anticipated annual rankings compiled by Florida International University professor and coastal expert Stephen P. Leatherman - a.k.a. "Dr. Beach" - it's San Diego's Coronado Beach. The 300-yard-wide, 1.5-mile-long stretch of silvery sand fronts the red-roofed Hotel del Coronado, a National Historic Landmark where Marilyn Monroe cavorted in the 1959 classic Some Like it Hot.

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dragonsky · #6 Posted: **May 27, 2012, 3:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by NBC San Diego

'Kissing Statue' Meets $1M Fundraising Goal
Statue set to leave San Diego
By Lauren Steussy
Saturday, May 26, 2012

An ambitious fundraising goal to support San Diego's "Kissing Statue" was met just in time to see the statue off during the Memorial Day weekend.

The famous statue of two Navy sweethearts kissing on the San Diego waterfront will now be forever preserved in bronze, with a price tag of about $1 million, the USS Midway Museum's officials announced Saturday morning.

Source: 'Kissing Statue' Meets $1M Fundraising Goal | NBC San Diego

Read More: http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loca...154557865.html

SDfan · #7 Posted: **Jun 12, 2012, 5:08 AM**

Thank you for the updates!

dragonsky · #8 Posted: **Jun 20, 2012, 5:09 AM**

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Originally Posted by The San Diego Union-Tribune

Safari Park to get $9 million gift for new tiger exhibit
Written by Lori Weisberg
10 a.m., May 18, 2012

An entirely new home for San Diego Zoo Safari Park's Sumatran tigers could open by 2014, thanks to the park's largest pledge ever of $9 million.

Park officials announced Friday that the planned $19.5 million Tiger Trail attraction is assured of the donation as long as an additional $2 million is raised by the end of the year.

A couple who has chosen to remain anonymous pledged to contribute $9 for every $2 in donations to finance the new attraction, designed in part to draw attention to the dwindling Sumatran tiger population. The gift, at most, would be $9 million if the park succeeds in attracting $2 million in donations.

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dragonsky · #9 Posted: **Oct 8, 2012, 2:33 AM**

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MCAS Miramar Air Show
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dragonsky · #10 Posted: **Nov 22, 2012, 4:45 AM**

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Originally Posted by Los Angeles Times

SeaWorld bringing Aquatica water park to San Diego
By Brady MacDonald
Los Angeles Times staff writer
8:00 AM PST, November 21, 2012

SeaWorld's Aquatica will introduce an innovative hybrid concept to San Diego in June that combines a marine park with a water park, allowing visitors to interact with animals like dolphins, stingrays and flamingos as they zip down water slides.

SeaWorld San Diego purchased Knott's Soak City in Chula Vista from the parent company of Knott's Berry Farm and plans an extensive renovation of the separate-admission water park about 20 miles south of the marine park.

Read More: http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/...,3956701.story

dragonsky · #11 Posted: **Dec 4, 2012, 5:41 PM**

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Balboa Park December Nights this coming weekend
Participating Balboa Park museums open their doors free of charge from 5-9 pm both evenings and more than 300,000 visitors are expected to experience the joy of San Diego’s largest free community festival.
http://www.balboapark.org/decembernights

dragonsky · #12 Posted: **Apr 20, 2013, 9:45 PM**

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dragonsky · #13 Posted: **Jun 2, 2013, 3:46 AM**

Aquatica SeaWorld opens to the public

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