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For the week of June 20, 2025, here’s what we’re reading:
- SAN opens T1 Parking Plaza
- UC San Diego debuts BEACON Lp(a) center
- YMCA Mission Valley unveils $300K expansion
- Austal USA aces US Navy’s USNS Point Loma sea trials
- Hotel Del Coronado’s $550M renovation and expansion reaches completion
- San Diego State University, UC San Diego rank top three percent of global universities
- HAYA Therapeutics relocates to Lilly Gateway Labs for RNA platform development
- BioMed Realty earns Fitwel recognition for 3M square feet of lab and office space
- Del Mar’s Seaside Equity Partners raises $723M
- San Diego-based Sirius, CRISPR ink development deal worth up to $800M
- San Diego among eight A-rated cities in the US for climate action
…and here are some events and opportunities:
- Apply by Aug. 1—WTCSD, EDC
Join the MetroConnect VIII export accelerator cohort - Aug. 14—EDC
Join us at San Diego: Life. Changing.’s 2025 Summer Bash
From our partners:
- June 26—North County Transit District
Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Goals: Federal Fiscal Years 2026-2028 - June 28—Fabletics
Fabletics Westfield UTC Grand Opening - July 9—ArkusNexus, Startup San Diego
Hackfrontier: Borderless Builders
Investor Spotlight: Excelerate, LLC
San Diego Regional EDC is supported by investments from more than 150 organizations like Excelerate, LLC. As part of our series spotlighting EDC investors, we sat down with the local consulting firm to learn more about its efforts to strengthen San Diego’s business community and its exciting collaboration with the New Children’s Museum, which recently launched Artopia: NCM Creative Studios, a classroom and gallery expansion.
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Enya Castañeda
Coordinator, Investor Relations & Marketing Communications