Daily Business Report: July 10, 2026
No resort yet, but SeaWorld’s 40-year plan lives on in updated blueprint
By Thomas Murphy | Times of San Diego
SeaWorld has no specific plans to resurrect a long-proposed theme park resort, but the idea remains in the park’s long‑term vision 40 years after it was first introduced.
On Thursday, July 9, San Diego’s Planning Commission will decide whether to support SeaWorld’s long‑term development roadmap, keeping the park’s long‑standing dream of a resort on Mission Bay alive for now.
While no specific hotel construction project will be discussed during the planning commission meeting, commissioners will consider a plan that preserves a four-decade-old resort hotel concept that was proposed in 1985 and abandoned 33 years later, in 2018.
The 2020 Hotel Tax Won’t Do Exactly What It Promised
by Mariana Martínez Barba | Voice of San Diego
Back in 2020, many people had their doubts about a proposed increase to the hotel tax, called Measure C, that promised new money to expand the Convention Center, help solve homelessness and fix city streets.
Homelessness advocate Michael McConnell was one of the skeptics. He had a criticism shared by many.
“There’s no guarantee that there will be any net increase in homelessness funding at all,” he said at a Politifest event on Measure C in 2019. “They could simply replace existing general fund money with this money.”
NORTH BY NORTHWEST FACT SHEET
by The Old Globe
North by Northwest
North American premiere
Adapted and directed by Emma Rice
Based on the Turner Entertainment Co. film North by Northwest
An Emma Rice Company, Kay & McLean Productions, and Jonathan Church Theatre Productions co-production
Produced by special arrangement with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures and Kay & McLean Productions
RUNS: July 3 through August 2, with the official opening night performance on Thursday, July 9.
THEATRE: Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage in the Old Globe Theatre, part of the Globe’s Conrad Prebys Theatre Center in San Diego’s Balboa Park.
