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Center offers gateway to success for small businesses By Steve Puterski
CARLSBAD — Tucked away along El Camino Real sits an eclectic mix of retail and commercial businesses. The Carlsbad Gateway Center is reinventing itself by providing small start-up shops with an avenue to grow, expand and flourish. In addition, the center also has mainstays such as offices for attorneys, sportswear, mountain bikes, textiles, Time Warner, college prep, finance, Pilates, breweries and more. Turning in the main entrance, meanwhile, features a rare collection of pine trees, a sort of Northern California-feel in the middle of Carlsbad. But for owners Chris and Jud Cornish, who bought the property in 2003, their success has come in recruiting small business owners looking for stable and cheap accommodations. As for space, a majority of the center offers offices up to 1,800-square feet, Chris Cornish J.J. Cutbirth, owner of Leap Coffee, watches his beans roast at his store at the Carlsbad Gateway Center. Photo by Natalie Warr
Schneider wins final EUSD seat
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ENCINITAS — Leslie Schneider has defeated Encinitas Union School District incumbent Patricia Sinay for the second and final seat available on the five-member board. With less than 30,000 votes countywide remaining to be counted, Schneider’s lead of 516 votes is likely insurmountable, The Coast News has determined. Sinay led the race on election night, but Schneider steadily closed the gap as the registrar counted mail and provision ballots before she finally took the lead two weeks ago. Scheider joins Rimga Viskanta, who is currently the top vote recipient in the contested election, as the victors in the four-candidate race. Anne-Katherine Pingree, who campaigned with Schneider, finished in fourth place. Schneider campaigned in tandem with fellow parent Pingree on a shared platform of transparency and fiscal responsibility after following district affairs over the past two years and coming to the conclusion that the current school governance falls
said. The Cornishes realized their “M” zoning made for a unique opportunity. It allows for all types of retail businesses and industries mixed together, eradicating the permitting process. “It cuts through the red tape and we began to realize what was available to us, the same time the foodies got big,” Chris Cornish said. “Everybody was looking for these small people who made really good products. It’s exciting to watch it, participate in it … and now they are starting to come to us.” The center has become a pseudo-incubator for its food and drink clients such as Leap Coffee, Happy Pantry, Prager Brothers Artisan Breads, OH! Juice and dozens of others. The Cornishes and Property Manager Toni Adamopoulos visit each potential tenant, whether it’s at their home or another prop-
A redesigned alternative of Watermark Del Mar features 10 fewer units, more guest parking spaces, increased setbacks, additional trees and wider, more spacious and functional courtyards. Public input is welcome at a Dec. 3 workshop, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Del Mar Plaza. Courtesy rendering
Design team reveals scaled-back Watermark plans By Bianca Kaplanek
DEL MAR — Guided more by community input than the housing element, the Watermark Del Mar development team created an additional design featuring 38 units, 10 fewer than the previous proposal. It is the fourth iteration of the multifamily project slated for a 2.37-acre vacant lot at the intersection of Jimmy Durante Boulevard and San Dieguito Drive and one of two options that will be presented for approval. “The 48-unit project is still on the table as proposed,” Kitchell Vice President Don Glatthorn said. “We had a wide range of responses to the 48-unit proposal that ranged from enthusiastic support to active opposition. “There were many people who loved it and told us they thought that project could go forward, which is why we’re keeping it as an option,” he added. “And there were other people that thought it was too dense. So we really, sincerely reached out with the revised design to the people who were
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not happy with our first 48unit proposal.” In addition to adding more trees, changing the building styles, creating more open space and increasing setbacks, the reduced version has a new affordable housing component. The 48-unit option provides seven affordable units, with four gifted in perpetuity to a nonprofit benefit corporation. In the new plan there will be six affordable, with three gifted. The project is included in the city’s state-approved housing element as a way to meet its affordable housing requirements. The design team, which includes Kitchell, Watermark DM LP and San Dieguito Land Partners, has been working on the project for about five years. It started with 57 units and has been reduced based on community input. In creating the most recent design, which started about 10 months ago, Glatthorn said his team divided TURN TO WATERMARK ON A14
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