{"id":402230,"date":"2026-07-17T13:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/402230\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:27:08","slug":"daily-business-report-july-17-2026-san-diego-metro-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/402230\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Business Report: July 17, 2026, San Diego Metro Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofsandiego.org\/2026\/07\/16\/letter-to-the-editor-apartment-vacancy-rates-paint-an-incomplete-picture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Letter to the Editor: Apartment Vacancy Rates Paint an Incomplete Picture<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By David Malcolm\u00a0| Voice of San Diego<\/p>\n<p>In last Saturday\u2019s \u201cPolitics Report,\u201d Will Huntsberry tackled the thorny issue of apartment vacancy rates (apparently the highest in this century) and the impact on affordability. He also correctly wrote that the city of San Diego needs \u201cstrategies beyond build, build, build.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s Really Happening<\/p>\n<p>My company owns and operates apartment rental complexes in San Diego County (San Marcos, Encinitas, La Jolla, El Cajon and South Bay) and in Temecula (Riverside County). Here is what we are seeing.<\/p>\n<p>Base rents are stable \u2026 but offers of two months\u2019 free rent are common. That is a de facto 16.7 percent reduction on annualized rents. Reducing base rents is not possible in the face of rent control measures and, even more importantly, bank loan covenants.\u00a0Thus, concessions like two months\u2019 free rent are not hard to find.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofsandiego.org\/2026\/07\/16\/letter-to-the-editor-apartment-vacancy-rates-paint-an-incomplete-picture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/health\/2026\/07\/16\/study-promising-parkinsons-treatment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">New study shows promising step forward in improving Parkinson\u2019s treatment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>by\u00a0Nicole Abrams | Times of San Diego<\/p>\n<p>A small molecule was found to increase the benefits and reduce the side effects of the standard drug for Parkinson\u2019s disease, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scitranslmed.aec7409\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">a new study<\/a>\u00a0from UC San Diego startup called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/today.ucsd.edu\/story\/drug-candidate-could-help-l-dopa-work-better-for-patients-with-parkinsons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sinopia Biosciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>L-dopa or levodopa is the main treatment for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.parkinson.org\/living-with-parkinsons\/treatment\/prescription-medications\/levodopa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Parkinson\u2019s disease<\/a>, but its benefits wane over time and can cause involuntary movements called dyskinesia. About 90% of patients with Parkinson\u2019s disease develop dyskinesia in 9 or more years of using L-dopa, and 70% develop motor fluctuations in 9 or more years of using the drug, according to the study.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/health\/2026\/07\/16\/study-promising-parkinsons-treatment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor: Apartment Vacancy Rates Paint an Incomplete Picture By David Malcolm\u00a0| Voice of San Diego&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-402230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}