PBO Advisory Group, a San Diego-based accounting and business consulting firm, announces that Francesca San Diego has become a minority member of the firm. San Diego joined PBO Advisory Group in 2015 and is a member of the executive management team. She holds nearly 30 years of experience in finance and business management, providing the....
Southern California is dotted with mid-20th Century-era garden-style, multifamily housing complexes that are not only showing their age, but can also be out of compliance with safety regulations. Gafcon, Inc. and real estate economist Alan Nevin are teaming up to help property owners realize the financial potential these complexes hold through a unique renovation process....
The San Diego‐based firm of Wilson Turner Kosmo, one the largest certified women‐owned law firms in California, has elevated Parada Ornelas to partner. A civil litigator in WTK’s Product Liability and Warranty group, Ornelas began her new leadership role Jan. 1. “Parada is an impressive leader both in and out of Wilson Turner Kosmo,” said....
Journalists use a proven formula to get, and keep, people reading their articles. That same formula can easily be applied to marketing content. In a three-part series on adopting journalistic principles for marketing writing, TW2 Senior Consultant Denise Nix, a former news reporter, explains how journalists write first sentences, structure articles using the inverted pyramid and....
Westcore, a leading industrial real estate acquisition, development and asset management firm based in San Diego, California, has acquired a 4.08-million-square-foot industrial real estate portfolio over nine major markets across the nation. Westcore purchased the portfolio from San Antonio, Texas-based USAA Real Estate for an undisclosed amount. The portfolio includes 17 Class A buildings constructed....
The San Diego-based law firm of Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek announces that Michele Muns Devine has joined the firm’s Estate Planning Practice Group as of counsel. Devine focuses her practice on estate planning, trust, wealth transfer planning and trust and probate administration. She advises businesses and individuals with diverse financial, tax and asset protection requirements,....
Lavine, Lofgren, Morris & Engelberg, LLP announces that Scott Jablow has taken the reins as managing partner of the San Diego-based accounting firm, effective Jan. 1, 2021. Jablow has been with LLME since 2008 and has more than 25 years of experience assisting clients with their tax planning and compliance needs. Jablow, who works with....
Each year, the Urban Land Institute releases its “Emerging Trends in Real Estate” outlook on the evolving trends shaping the real estate industry. The local San Diego/Tijuana chapter of ULI, where TW2’s Jennifer Whitelaw serves on the board as programs co-chair, invited Andrew C. Warren, director of real estate research at PricewaterhouseCoopers and co-author of the 2021 Emerging Trends in Real Estate....
Lavine, Lofgren, Morris & Engelberg, LLP announces that Bill Abel has joined the San Diego-based accounting firm as a tax manager. Abel is a CPA with more than 10 years of experience in public accounting and tax compliance. He specializes in individual, partnership, and corporate taxation, including tax compliance and tax planning. He serves a....
Cuyamaca College held a groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday, February 4 for its three-story, 36,374-square-foot student services building. Gafcon, Inc., the San Diego-based international program, project and construction management firm managing construction for the new building on behalf of the Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District, estimates completion by the middle of next year. The new building modernizes student....