Building Industry Association
of San Diego

The top construction industry trade associations have thrown their support behind  Carl DeMaio in his bid to be the next Mayor of San Diego.  The BIA, along with the Associated General Contractors (AGC) and the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) held a joint press conference to announce that DeMaio is their candidate for San Diego Mayor.

“San Diego cannot compete unless we have the types of reforms (DeMaio) has been talking about for the past four years… and he needs the office of the mayor to make those reforms a reality,” said Borre Winckel, President and Chief Executive Officer of the BIA. (more…)

A memorial service honoring the life of Horace will be held on:

Saturday, February 25 at 11:00 a.m.
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
890 Balour Drive
Encinitas CA 92024
Map and directions

The family suggests contributions in lieu of flowers to either the City of Hope or UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.

View Horace’s obituary in the San Diego Union~Tribune.

It is with profound sadness that we share the passing of our friend, great leader and industry giant Horace Hogan II, a veteran California homebuilder and San Diego Building Industry Association leader.  Hogan died Monday after a lengthy battle with cancer.

“Horace was a pillar of our tight-knit industry community and even more importantly, an extraordinary generous human being,” said Guy Asaro, Chairman of the Building Industry Association of San Diego County. “  His legacy is vast, and his efforts helped lead our industry through good times and bad.  All of us who knew and worked with him will miss him sorely, especially his infectious spirit-lifting signature laughter.”

At his death, Hogan was a principal with LandArc Group, a private land development company of planned residential and mixed-use communities based in Carlsbad.  He previously was president and chief executive officer for Brehm Communities in San Diego, and before that was division president for Ryland Homes, a cofounder of Pacific Gateway Homes in Aliso Viejo, and was vice president of the Mission Viejo Company.  In all, he had more than 30 years of executive leadership experience in the homebuilding industry. (more…)

The Solana Beach City Council voted to continue its hearing on whether to increase Inclusionary Zoning fees and requirements on new home construction.  Responding to concerns raised by the BIA, the council voted unanimously to push the hearing to January 12, 2011 rather than adopt an ordinance that would result in a regulatory ‘double dip.’ The proposed ordinance would have required homebuilders to still pay the city’s in-lieu fee of up to $35,000 per unit even if the project is building low income units on site as part of the state’s affordable housing density bonus program.   The state Department on Housing and Community Development requires local cities to provide density bonuses for projects that build low income housing but Solana Beach maintains that still does not satisfy their local ordinance

Pleased to share with you news of our new hire, Matthew Yunker, as our Senior Communications Advisor.  Matt comes to us from our friends at the Downtown Partnership where he worked in Public Policy and Communications. He will serve in a similar capacity at BIA and will make sure the membership and our external audiences hear from us often and hear us right!  Matthew is an alumnus of USD and currently studies at SDSU as a graduate student in Communication Studies.  You can reach Matthew at myunker@biasandiego.org.

Matt Yunkers joins BIA Staff