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Find out how Novartis plans to spend $1 billion in San Diego – San Diego Union-Tribune Novartis Breaks Ground on $1.1 Billion San Diego Research Campus Amid Regional Biotech Expansion BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis has broken ground on a 466,000-square-foot, $1.1 billion research campus at Campus Point Drive in La Jolla, directly adjacent to UC San Diego Health's Jacobs Medical Center and clinical research facilities. The facility, scheduled to open in 2029, will consolidate West Coast operations and employ approximately 1,000 workers, strengthening the symbiotic relationship between pharmaceutical research and UC San Diego's clinical and academic infrastructure while highlighting the geographic and economic divide between San Diego's thriving northern life sciences cluster and a struggling downtown core that has seen limited spillover benefits from the region's biotech boom. Major Pharmaceutical Investment Anchors San Diego's Bio...

San Diego residents seek curfew for Colina Del Sol Park  When "No Response" Becomes Policy New York's proven approach to urban disorder contrasts sharply with San Diego's paralysis, raising questions about political accountability ahead of November elections TL;DR: The Broken Windows That San Diego Won't Fix The Core Problem: San Diego parks have become centers of crime, drug use, and violence after dark. At Colina del Sol Park, residents have endured three years of escalating disorder—public drug use, vandalism, trespassing, defecation in apartment stairwells, a stabbing, and a fatal shooting—while city officials refuse to implement even basic remedies. New York Did It Right: In the 1990s, New York used "broken windows" policing—strict enforcement of minor offenses to prevent escalation to serious crime. The approach worked: NYC transformed from America's most dangerous city to one of its safest. The core principle: address disorder early befo...