Historic Spreckels Building and Theatre in downtown San Diego hits the auction block

The storied Spreckels Building and Theatre at 121 Broadway, once a symbol of opulence and San Diego’s emerging status in the ...
Hoodline

Broadway Bombshell: Downtown San Diego's Spreckels Building Hits the Auction Block

One of downtown San Diego's most recognizable addresses is headed to the virtual auction block. The iconic six-story ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

With new owner, downtown San Diego office tower will be converted to low-income housing

A developer new to San Diego has purchased an empty, downtown skyscraper and is fast preparing to refashion the building with 200 residential units for low- and very-low-income households. On Tuesday, ...
Times of San Diego

Every other downtown theater has reopened after 2020 — but Spreckels is still dark

The Spreckles Theatre marquee in November of 2025. (Photo by Adrian Childress/Times of San Diego) For nearly six years, Spreckels Theatre has stood frozen in time, a visible monument to the early ...

Whalers to cable railways: 5 snapshots of San Diego’s early days

In the 1800s, people were building parks, moving goods along dirt trails, hunting whales for oil, and even testing cable cars ...
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A real-estate tycoon’s San Diego exit is turning the city upside down

A famed investor’s decision to dump a half-dozen San Diego office buildings is turning this city’s image upside down. Donald Bren, the 93-year-old tycoon who owns real-estate firm Irvine Co., has been ...
Orange County Business Journal

Irvine Co. Exits Downtown San Diego

Irvine Company has sold One America Plaza, San Diego’s tallest office tower, in a $120 million deal that concludes the Newport Beach firm’s rapid exit from downtown San Diego, a now-struggling office ...