Girl Scouts San Diego CEO Jo Dee C. Jacob spends time with Scouts Makayla Soto, left, and Maria Burritt at the organization’s Groce Family Tree House in Balboa Park.
When land was set aside for scout camps in Balboa Park just after World War II, the story goes, the boys program got there first. The Girl Scouts arrived a few years later and took up residence on an adjacent site that was largely a canyon.
Verenium Closes Sale of Biofuels Business Verenium Corp., based in Massachusetts but with San Diego operations, closed the sale of its cellulosic biofuels business to BP Biofuels North America for $98.3 million, the firm said Sept. 2.
$451M Camp Pendleton Hospital Deal Awarded The Navy has awarded a contract worth as much as $451 million to design and build a new hospital at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.
Mission Plaza Hotel in San Diego Has New Owners Mission Plaza Hotel & Suites in San Diego, which was foreclosed on earlier this year by its lender, has been sold to an affiliate of La Jolla-based Reven Capital and Jet Stream Hotels & Resorts.
AMN Closes Purchase of Nursefinders AMN Healthcare Services, the San Diego-based nursing staffing company, said Sept. 1 it completed the purchase of the parent firm of Texas-based Nursefinders Inc.