Mathew Hose

When it opened in 1985, development of the Horton Plaza shopping mall in San Diego was hailed as a blueprint for how retail can revitalize a downtown area. The mall in its heyday attracted millions of shoppers to the city’s core with its unorthodox, multicolored and multi-pattern

While many of the bedroom communities in Silicon Valley have clung to their residential character, even amid the Bay Area’s housing affordability crisis, San Jose has of late embraced a decidedly urban vision. Google plans to build a mixed-use headquarters downtown, and city lead

The San Diego City Council unanimously approved a new Climate Action Plan , one of the nation's most ambitious plans to cut carbon emissions by creating legally binding mandates for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. >>read more