“As a real estate investment company and developer, Crescent’s focus is to continually improve the customer experience. We do that through enhanced technology and design to build better buildings and operate buildings more efficiently,” Crescent CEO Conrad Suszynski said in a news release. “This is consistent with Dvele’s mission to offer cutting-edge, sustainable homes using the latest technology.”
Dvele has a 75,000-square-foot production foundry in Loma Linda, where it builds prefabricated modules that are shipped out across the country. It also provides architecture, interior design and general contracting services.
“Dvele is creating the template for a software-defined home and construction site that will change the expectations for how a home is built and delivered. We believe our customers should be able to order a home with the same ease and high-end experience they expect in buying a luxury car brand or quality consumer electronics,” Founder and CEO Kurt Go
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She stalked Nato ships during the Cold War, lurking in the depths of the ocean on long-range patrols. And these photographs show just what a grim job it would have been for those on board.
They show the poky interior of a Foxtrot-class Soviet submarine called B-143, operational from 1960 to 1991 and which would have carried a complement of nearly 80 men - and an armament of heavyweight torpedoes, including a nuclear one.
The pictures were taken by Ukrainian-Belgian couple Olga Sorukhanova and Vladimir Kouksov, who run Chiffa Photography, and record a slice of Cold War history for posterity. The pair boarded the sub in January 2020 in Belgium, close to where it was being scrapped. It had previously been on show at the Seafront Zeebrugge maritime theme park until the summer of 2019.
Maritime Museum of San Diego, serving as the community memory of our seafaring experience by collecting, preserving, and presenting our rich maritime heritage and historic connections with the Pacific world, announced today it is reopening for a fourth time February 13, 2021, as the Governor’s Stay at Home Order is lifted and San Diego County returns to the Purple Tier. This restriction requires Museum indoor operations to temporarily close to continue to fight the spread of COVID-19. Therefore, the Museum is extending the outdoor adventure option which includes top deck tours and free boat ride with the purchase of general admission. According to Raymond Ashley, Ph.D., K.C.I., President/CEO of the Maritime Museum of San Diego, “this healthy, safe, outdoor, educational and fun escape for all ages can be a welcome break as the community comes together to fight the global pandemic.”
Postcard from America’s finest city
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Postcard from America’s finest city
Postcard from America’s finest city | Sunday, February 07, 2021
Downtown San Diego at sunset. | Dennis Lennox
San Diego isn’t the first place that comes to mind when you think of California. That is understandable given the prominence of Los Angeles and San Francisco in all things culture and media.
Yet, San Diego is a destination in its own right. So much so that “America’s finest city,” as San Diego bills itself, is the perfect citycation.
What to do and see
As one might imagine, given its location along California’s coast, the Pacific has had a huge influence on San Diego’s development. This location became militarily strategic after the Panama Canal opened in 1914, leading to San Diego becoming the home port of the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet.
Also reopening this week following the lifting of the state's stay-at-home order are the USS Midway and the Maritime Museum, which will be limited to outdoor-only visitation