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  MSN Encarta - San Diego
San Diego, city in the southwest corner of California and seat of San Diego County.
The population of the San Diego metropolitan area increased from 1,861,846 in 1980 to 2,931,000 in 2003.
San Diego’s premier historic attractions are Mission Basilica San Diego Alcalá, the first of the Spanish missions constructed along the California coast, and the Hotel del Coronado.
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 San Diego Convention Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The San Diego Convention Center is the convention center for the city of San Diego, California.
It is located in downtown San Diego, near the Gaslamp Quarter, at 111 West Harbor Drive.
The resemblance to sails is intended to embody San Diego's rich maritime history and ties to the sea, as well as to advertise the center's proximity to the San Diego shore.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Diego_Convention_Center   (223 words)

  
 San Diego Convention Center Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The San Diego Convention Center Corporation is a non-profit public corporation that owns and maintains the San Diego Convention Center and the San Diego Concourse.
The corporation was created in 1984 by the city government of San Diego, California.
Its board of directors is appointed by the mayor and city council of San Diego.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Diego_Convention_Center_Corporation   (102 words)

  
 San Diego Convention Center: Award-winning conference and exhibition facility
San Diego Convention Center: Award-winning conference and exhibition facility
From the airport, it's just a five-minute shuttle ride to the San Diego Convention Center, located right on the harbor in downtown San Diego.
Explore the dining and excitement of the Gaslamp Quarter.
www.sdccc.org   (78 words)

  
 Downtown San Diego Partnership
San Diego is renowned for the recreational activities that center on its abundant sunshine.
San Diego has the highest percentage of college graduates (29.8%) of any city in the United States.
In compliance with the City of San Diego Sign Code Ordinance, corporate sponsorship or underwriting may be displayed on the banner through the appearance of the sponsor's logo and/or name.
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 San Diego Convention Center Hotels - Hotels near the San Diego Convention Center
The Staybridge Suites Riviera-San Diego is the newest all suite extended stay hotel addition to downtown San Diego, conveniently located within walking distance to all of the downtown attractions.
The San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina is located on the bay in downtown San Diego adjacent to the convention center and Seaport Village.
Located on San Diego Bay, in a resort-like setting with the convenience of a downtown location, the Hyatt Regency San Diego is the west coast's tallest......more.
www.conventionhotelguide.com /san_diego_convention_center.html   (344 words)

  
 San Diego Metropolitan - San Diego Convention Center - September 2001
At the insistence of convention center officials, the expansion had to extend the center straight along Harbor Drive, creating a solid structure between First and Eighth avenues and a main exhibit space seamlessly connecting the original with its addition.
San Diego Councilman Byron Wear, whose District 2 includes the convention center site, says the investment was a good one for the city, especially since the center already was bringing in millions more in hotel room or transient occupancy taxes.
San Diego’s popularity was reaffirmed, she says, when she attended a meeting of the American Society of Association Executives, a key group of professionals who book conventions.
www.sandiegometro.com /2001/sep/convention.html   (2177 words)

  
 Syska Hennessy Group: Sports and Public Assembly Project Experience
San Diego had outgrown their 10-year old convention center and was loosing the bigger conventions because they could not accommodate them.
San Diego, a growing and popular destination, needed to expand their center to attract these larger shows and bring additional visitors and revenue to their City.
We have enjoyed a long relationship with the Port of San Diego and the Convention Center since we assisted on the design of the original facility which was completed in 1989.
www.syska.com /Sports/projects/sdcc.html   (268 words)

  
 Communications News: San Diego Convention Center is sophisticated communications backdrop to TCA conference - includes ...
The center, whose design is evocative of a sailing vessel, sits as though docked in San Diego's alluring harbor.
With the convention center owned by the city of San Diego and designated a potential disaster evacuation site, it needs to provide critical data processing and voice communications that are not dependent on outside power or environmental services.
Center events, logged through the year 2010, are booked on a computerized ledger.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0CMN/is_n9_v28/ai_11246577   (664 words)

  
 Features Item : San Diego Convention Center Fuels Hotel Boom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
SAN DIEGO, CA — If your city doesn’t have something akin to Disneyland, the White House, or the Las Vegas “Glitter Gulch,” a convention center is most likely its biggest draw for out-of-towners.
Convention centers require a great outlay of capital, but they have the potential for generating a great deal of revenue for the host city.
San Diego is banking on the convention boom continuing, and hopes its $216 million will be well spent.
www.achrnews.com /CDA/ArticleInformation/features/BNP__Features__Item/0,1338,10161,00.html   (1142 words)

  
 San Diego Convention Center: Maps and Driving Directions
The San Diego Convention Center is at 111 West Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92101.
The Center is downtown along majestic San Diego Bay with the vibrant Gaslamp District and the San Diego Padres' PETCO Park at our doorstep.
The San Diego Trolley has two stops directly in front of the Center at Harbor Drive/First Avenue and Harbor Drive/Fifth Avenue.
www.sdccc.org /maps   (243 words)

  
 San Diego Convention Center:
A resident of San Diego since 1993, he is active within the community and is a board member of the San Diego County Taxpayers Association and the San Diego LGBT Community Center.
She is past chairwoman of the San Diego County Water Authority and currently serves on the boards of numerous civic and philanthropic institutions including the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Carol Wallace is responsible for the overall management of the San Diego Convention Center, the San Diego Concourse and the San Diego Civic Theatre.
www.visitsandiego.com /aboutus/board.cfm   (675 words)

  
 Business Wire: San Diego Convention Center Passes Resolution Supporting Neutrality/Card Check Agreements by Hotel ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Board of Directors of the San Diego Convention Center passed a resolution expressing its concern about the significant loss of business opportunities that exist due to the lack of union hotels near the facility.
While only two hotels in downtown San Diego are unionized, currently no hotels near the San Diego Convention Center are union facilities.
Labor organizations, constituency groups and allies chose to bring their meetings and conventions -- including thousands of participants and millions of dollars in hotel and restaurant revenues -- to cities with hotels whose workers are represented by a union.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2000_April_14/ai_61507028   (483 words)

  
 San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau
The Hilton is near the airport, downtown and the San Diego Convention Center...
San Diego is fast becoming a major cruise port on the U.S Pacific coast.
In the past five years, San Diego has increased its cruise ship calls by 300% and is the fastest growing cruise port on the West Coast.
www.sandiego.org   (431 words)

  
 San Diego Convention Center Hotels - hotels near "San Diego Convention Center"
We are a full service hotel reservations center serving visitors to the San Diego Convention Center.
The San Diego Convention Center is located beside San Diego Bay across from Seaport Village.
The San Diego Convention Center Corporation manages, operates, maintains, and markets the site on behalf of the city.
sandiego.conventioncenterhotels.net   (174 words)

  
 San Diego Convention Center:
A major downtown redevelopment campaign in the late 1970s ultimately led to the siting of the Convention Center on 11 acres of Port of San Diego-owned land along San Diego Bay.
In December 1983, the City Council created the San Diego Convention Center Corporation to manage and operate the new facility upon completion.
Neuroscience was the expanded Center’s first full-facility user attracting a record-breaking 28,600 national and international delegates just two months after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. The San Diego Convention Center is currently ranked 21st in size among the 375 convention facilities in North America.
www.visitsandiego.com /aboutus/history.cfm   (228 words)

  
 Submeters Help San Diego Convention Center Reduce Electric Bill, Monitor Power Quality - EnergyVortex
Realizing that he couldn't save what he didn't measure, Barham"s investigation led the convention center to select a submetering system that would allow facility engineers to monitor, record, and report energy usage as a tool for conserving energy and for lowering overall operating costs.
Currently, nine of the eleven meters in the Convention Center complex are submetered, with the remaining two meters slated for retrofit.
Twice voted the number three facility of its type in the world, the San Diego Convention Center is a prime example of how submetering can accurately track energy usage, focus conservation efforts, and recoup operating costs.
www.energyvortex.com /pages/headlinedetails.cfm?id=808   (509 words)

  
 San Diego Convention Center Combines Analog And Digital Technologies
The convention center was also well prepared this year when a convoy of television broadcasting trucks approached it just days before the NFL Super Bowl.
Images of visitors approaching the convention center lobby are captured by Pelco SD5 Series Spectra Dome cameras discreetly mounted along the exterior railing of the building.
The Convention Center does not use any card access entry devices since it is a public space with doors in use every day.
securitysolutions.com /mag/security_san_diego_convention/index.html   (1422 words)

  
 PR Newswire: Wells Fargo Bank Brings to the San Diego Convention Center One of the World's Leading Experts on Economic ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
PR Newswire: Wells Fargo Bank Brings to the San Diego Convention Center One of the World's Leading Experts on Economic Strategy and Inner City Competitive Advantage to Explore Local Issues and Development Opportunities.@ HighBeam Research
Wells Fargo Bank Brings to the San Diego Convention Center One of the World's Leading Experts on Economic Strategy and Inner City Competitive Advantage to Explore Local Issues and Development Opportunities.
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Wells Fargo Bank has invited leaders from the business, civic, academic, philanthropic and developer communities to participate in a first-ever San Diego conference, focusing on the topic, "Inner-City Development: The Challenge and the Opportunity." One of the world's leading authorities on economic strategy,...
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 San Diego Convention Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
San Diego Stock Photos - thousands of digital photographs of San Diego, California's coastal cities, and scenic locations throughout Oregon, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico.
All of the photographs in our San Diego photo galleries are available for use in print media, on websites, and in PowerPoint presentations.
All of our digital photographs of San Diego are available in sizes and resolutions suitable for print media or websites.
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 San Diego Supercomputer Center Reaches Data Transfer Milestone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Even though tape costs a fraction of disk, supercomputer centers have been investing heavily in more expensive disk storage because its data-transfer rates are higher, by a factor of at least 10, than what had been the best tape systems.
At the same time, however, supercomputer centers are struggling to pay for the disk capacity required to keep up with the explosive growth of scientific data.
In a second data-transfer feat demonstrated Nov. 21 at the Supercomputing 2002 (SC2002) conference at the Baltimore Convention Center, SDSC computer scientist Bryan Banister transferred data from disk at the supercomputer center in La Jolla, CA, to disk at the convention center at 721 megabytes per second.
www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2002/11/021126203210.htm   (1166 words)

  
 San Diego Convention Center Corporation
To be responsible for the management, maintenance, supervision, and operation of the San Diego Convention Center and all incidental or related matters.
In the event that the Council does not act to fill a vacancy within thirty (30) days, vacancies may be filled by a majority of the remaining directors even though the number remaining is less than a quorum.
Seven (7) members, all of whom shall be residents of the City or County of San Diego.
www.sandiego.gov /city-clerk/boards-commissions/850930.shtml   (206 words)

  
 San Diego Convention Center Reduces Electric Bill, Monitors Power Quality With Submetering
Imagine, then, how the operators of the San Diego Convention Center—a seven-city-block long, 2.6 million sq-ft state-of-the art complex—must feel.
Currently, nine of the 11 meters in the convention center complex are submetered, with the remaining two meters slated for retrofit by the end of this year.
Barham estimates that the convention center saves about $13,000 a year.
ecmweb.com /news/electric_san_diego_convention/index.html   (529 words)

  
 Embassy Suites Hotels San Diego Bay - Sign On San Diego . com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
We are located at the corner of Harbor Drive and Pacific Highway, across from Seaport Village, and only three blocks from the San Diego Convention Center.
We are within steps of the San Diego Trolley, which can take you through the center of town or directly to the Mexican border.
Visit SignOnSanDiego.com for more local entertainment including reviews of San Diego restaurants, bars, nightlife and the arts.
www.embassysuitessd.signonsandiego.com   (155 words)

  
 NBC 4 - Politics - Top Marine General's Blunt Comments Draw Fire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
SAN DIEGO -- At a panel discussion in San Diego Tuesday, a top Marine general tells an audience that, among other things, it is "fun to shoot some people."
About 200 people gathered for the discussion, held at the San Diego Convention Center.
While many military members laughed at the comments, a military expert interviewed by NBC 7/39 in San Diego called the comments "flippant."
www.nbc4.tv /politics/4155808/detail.html   (244 words)

  
 San Diego Convention Center and Civic Theatre
The convention center underwent an expansion in 2001 that doubled the total amount of space.
There are plenty of San Diego hotels and resorts nearby with access to both the Convention Center and the many activities available in this year-round vacation community.
The San Diego Civic Theatre, located at 202 C. Street, is home to the San Diego Opera, California Ballet, La Jolla Chamber Music Society and the Nederlander Presentation, San Diego Playgoers Broadway Series Theatrical and musical productions.
www.inetours.com /San_Diego/Convention_Center.html   (327 words)

  
 Port of San Diego - (Proposed) Hilton San Diego Convention Center Hotel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sales and property taxes (over $7 million annually) for the City and County of San Diego and TOT estimated at over $8 million annually for the City of San Diego.
On July 27, the San Diego City Council approved a contract with T.Y. Lin International to draw up preliminary plans for the bridge.
Development of the Hilton Convention Center Hotel parking Garage is a requirement of the option agreement between the Port and Hilton San Diego Convention Center, LLC.
www.portofsandiego.org /projects/hiltonhotel/index.asp   (571 words)

  
 Ramada Inn San Diego Gaslamp Convention Center - OneTime
Ramada Inn San Diego Gaslamp Convention Center - OneTime
The Ramada St. James -- confusingly also billed as the Gaslamp Convention Center -- may once have been one of Southern California's leading hotels, but that was long, long ago.
Today, the hotel is a noisy, rundown, just-this-side-of-nasty place where your neighbors may well be partaking too enthusiastically of the Gaslamp neighborhood's Red Light District attractions.
www.onetime.com /hotel/6430/CA/San_Diego/Ramada_Inn_San_Diego_Gaslamp_Convention_Center.html   (277 words)

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