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By Editor-at-Large Although a downtown high-rise building purchased by the City in 2016 as a new space for over 1,000 staffers was closed down last year over asbestos exposure, a greater threat to people in the building could have been uncontrollable fires. A lawsuit filed this week by a senior City staff engineer claims he warned his superiors about non-functioning heating, air conditioning, and fire systems in the 101 Ash Street building beginning in late 2018, more than a year before the City began moving up to 1,100 staffers into the building in January 2020, but his warnings and those of...

Gloria continues to ignore questions about two thorny issues facing the City despite repeated requests for comments and numerous opportunities to address the growing scandals.

Print The landlord that had been collecting nearly $18,000 a day from the city of San Diego for the past four years to lease a still-vacant downtown building is challenging in court former Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s decision last summer to suspend payments. Wilmington Trust has filed a cross-complaint suit against the city of San Diego, accusing it of violating its 2017 lease-to-own agreement for the 101 Ash Street building by, among other things, causing the damage that has prevented the city from moving workers into the former Sempra Energy building. “Although the 101 Ash Street building...

Sean Elo-Rivera, the Ninth District candidate who beat labor candidate Kelvin Barrios The Cinderella story of last year's November San Diego city council runoff is that of Sean Elo-Rivera, the Ninth District candidate who beat labor candidate Kelvin Barrios, forced from the race as campaign finance chargespiled up against him. Steve Black Cisterra website Barrios was flush with cash from the union he is employed by, along with some of the city's biggest developers, including $2100 from two top Cisterra Development employees, records show. But after the election, Cisterra's cash, in the form ...

By Arturo Castañares Editor-at-Large A lawsuit seeking to undo the City of San Diego’s lease of a downtown building plagued by financial scandal and equipment failures was amended to claim the deal is illegal under the state’s constitution and is now seeking the return of over $23 million already paid by the City. “The lawsuit was filed by a concerned taxpayer to do what the City isn’t doing – demanding the money back for a building that can’t be used. The lease purchase agreement was unconstitutional on its face and is void,” Maria Severson, one of the lawyers representing pla...