I’m going to take a chance.
Readers have commented that they don’t want commercials, but others have mentioned giving more exposure to the surrounding neighborhoods and attractions.
There are a few reasons to take in the Lodge at Torrey Pines:
1. It provides a quality sampling of the Craftsman architecture.
2. It’s right on the storied golf course.
3. You don’t have to stay there to appreciate the benefits (rooms start around $500/night).
4. They have a video tour!
From their website:
With its post-and-beam construction, expansive spaces, respect for the natural landscape and integration of indoor/outdoor living, The Lodge at Torrey Pines® pays homage to the California Craftsman style of architecture of the early 1900s. The Craftsman style was an offshoot of the Arts & Crafts Movement, itself a response to the Victorian excesses of ornamentation and patterns, which emphasized clean lines, open spaces and rough hewn materials.
The Lodge is modeled after the Gamble and Blacker houses in Pasadena, California, two of the best examples of early 1900s Craftsman-style architecture by Greene & Greene. Arriving guests are greeted at The Lodge’s grand porte-cochère by doormen attired in kilted Scottish dress. Inside are 170 guest rooms including 8 suites, more than 13,000 square feet of indoor meeting and banquet space, a 9,500 square-foot full-service spa and two restaurants, including A.R. Valentien which serves contemporary California cuisine, and expansive public rooms with fireplaces, large mantelpieces, overstuffed couches, comfortable leather chairs and amazing views of the Torrey Pines Golf Course and the Pacific Ocean beyond. Behind The Lodge is a heated pool with relaxing poolside cabanas, whirlpool, croquet lawn, and a large terrace with chaise lounges for basking in the Southern California sun.
Designed with the look and feel of a residence, The Lodge at Torrey Pines® authentically reflects the California Craftsman style of architecture, featuring a natural color palette, graceful wing-like rooflines, shingle and sandstone-bluff exteriors, clinker-brick masonry, rich Jatoba woodwork and natural stone surfaces. The Lodge’s design complements the pristine beauty of the area’s pines and sandstone formations, with beam details that echo the windswept Torrey Pines themselves. World-renowned Craftsman expert Randell L. Makinson of Pasadena’s Gamble House Trust supervised the resort’s design team to ensure the authenticity of The Lodge’s Craftsman style. We encourage you to stay with us at the Lodge, the preferred choice among San Diego luxury hotels.
Thanks to Stormin for sending this in, from Beacon Economics:
On a regional basis, growth was widespread across California. Several smaller metros saw solid gains, including Santa Rosa (+2,100 positions) and Hanford (+400 positions) — two areas that don’t typically make it onto the list of ‘most job gains’. San Diego took the top spot this month, adding 8,600 positions, followed closely by Sacramento which added 6,200 positions in July. Orange County and San Jose posted the greatest job losses this month, down 5,300 and 8,500 positions respectively.
nice crib. I would love to stay there some day. can you reserve me a room and I will serve as you intern for a week?
Stayed there recently before our little guy was born! Had a memorable time. First class all the way!
the devil is in the details.
1.) what sectors were those positions in?
2.) are they contract/temp or full time salaried positions?
I’m in biotech and we have hired A LOT of temp/contract scientists. A job is a job, but contract employment is not healthy in the long term.
I work in software, and we can’t hire engineers and architects fast enough. There is a shortage of qualified talent.
Chrisg,
I work in software as well and we can’t find people either. I’m still close to development but I no longer code. If this continues coders will be making more than their bosses.
A word to anyone considering college or going back. Get into programming and after a couple of years you’ll have offers thrown at you left and right.
And also Jim’s right The Lodge at Torrey Pines is awesome! It’s an amazing rendition of the Mission/Craftsman style. The restraunt is always packed.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303505504577405221289491972.html
The uneven recovery of Silicon Valley reflects divisions across California. Areas with high-tech clusters, such as Orange County, south of Los Angeles, are adding jobs at a healthy pace. But much of California, including Los Angeles County, lags behind. The state’s 10.7% unemployment rate is higher than all but two other states. Unemployment tops 10% in 39 of the state’s 58 counties.
California is “an economy of haves and have-nots,” says Sung Won Sohn, an economics professor at California State University, Channel Islands. Moving from robust coastal areas to languishing inland regions is “like falling off an economic cliff.”
It doesn’t help that California also has high costs. The state ranks poorly in many business-climate surveys because of its tax and regulatory policies. Real-estate prices are among the highest in the nation. And a study released in January by the Tax Foundation found that California’s business-tax climate was the third worst in the country, ahead of only New Jersey and New York.
California’s economy is so big—its $2 trillion annual output is bigger than all but nine countries—and so diverse that there are always disparities among regions and industries.
But the divisions this time are greater than usual, analysts say, and greater in California than elsewhere in the U.S. In a recent analysis, the Public Policy Institute of California, a nonprofit research group, found that incomes of upper-income families are roughly 12 times those of lower-income families; nationally, the ratio is 10-to-1. The analysis defined “upper income” as those earning more than 90% of families, and “lower-income” as those earning less than 90% of families.
The gap isn’t just between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class. The institute says median family income in California fell 11% between 2007 and 2010, compared with 6% nationally. By 2010, the group says, fewer than half of Californians—49.7%—lived in middle-class families, down from 60% in 1980.
Such gaps pose new obstacles as California convalesces. Private-sector jobs are growing, but government is hurting. The state budget for the fiscal year that began July 1 cut spending by $8 billion. Schools face an additional $5.4 billion in cuts if voters don’t approve Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed tax increase in November.
In San Jose, transportation director Hans Larsen says five times as many streets need repairs as his budget will allow. What gets done first? Roads near hot tech companies.
“We’re giving priority to the roads going to our job centers,” Mr. Larsen says. As for neighborhood streets, “we’ll have to neglect those until there’s more money.”
The fiscal problems crimp California’s higher-education system, the historic path for ambitious lower-income youth to climb the economic ladder.
The cost to attend the University of California or California State University has more than tripled in the past decade. Annual funding for the 23-campus state-university system is down one-third, or $1 billion, since 2008; in addition to raising fees, CSU has cut enrollment by 40,000 students.
The cuts disproportionally hit lower-income and middle-class students. Elizondo Mendoza, 30, enrolled at Cal State-Fresno in 2007, two years after leaving the Marines. But he is still four courses short of a construction-management degree, in part because a required civil-engineering construction class is now offered only once a year, rather than every semester.
The son of farm workers owes $12,000 in student loans, which supplement his $1,200 monthly GI Bill benefits. The GI benefits expire this year and Mr. Mendoza says he may seek a part-time job when school resumes. “Because they’re raising tuition, we’re struggling,” he says.
Budget cuts also create obstacles for laid-off workers seeking training for new jobs. Funding for the local employment and training centers is 2% less than in 2007, before the recession, though the number of unemployed Californians has more than doubled, to nearly two million. The Los Angeles Unified School District plans to eliminate adult programs that enrolled 97,000 students this year, including technical courses such as welding and machining.
The reductions could saddle California with an undereducated, less-competitive workforce. That is a particular problem in Los Angeles, where 13% of adults have less than a ninth-grade education, the highest share of poorly educated workers among the nation’s 31 largest metropolitan areas, according to William Yu, an economics professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Mr. Yu says the undertrained workforce contributes to Los Angeles County’s high unemployment rate—11.1%—and subpar job growth since the end of the recession. Visitors to four job centers run by the county’s South Bay Workforce Investment Board are up 6% from a year ago, says executive director Jan Vogel. Mr. Yu recently projected that the county wouldn’t regain the 450,000 jobs it lost during the recession until 2016.
The new jobs often pay less than those they replace. The hourly wage for re-employed workers tracked by the L.A. Works job center in Irwindale, in eastern Los Angeles County, is $22, down from $29 for the same workers before they were laid off.
Still, some employers say they can’t find qualified workers. “We could grow so much more if we could just find the right people,” says David Goodreau, sales manager for Superior Thread Rolling Co., an Arleta, Calif., maker of parts for the aviation and aerospace industries. He says machinists are in particularly short supply, but says local schools have cut vocational and technical training.
Christopher Thornberg, of Beacon Economics, says Los Angeles is an extreme example of California’s “barbell economy,” with a greater than average share of college graduates, but also of people who haven’t finished high school. Mr. Thornberg says the state has relatively fewer high school graduates and adults with two-year college degrees who can fill technical, middle-class jobs.
Nationally, home prices languish. In Palo Alto, the median price of a home rose 9% in May from a year earlier, to $1.7 million, according to DataQuick.
At Qvale Auto Group’s British Motor Car Distributors in San Francisco, General Manager Vincent Golde says sales of high-end luxury cars are up 6% to 8% so far this year, compared with a year ago. The dealership’s waiting list for the $400,000-and-up Lamborghini Aventador is a year long.
It was the best of times, it the worst of times. Diversion and bifurcation of community. What could go wrong?