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Innovation Hockey Expects Warm Reception on S.D. Ice DOWNTOWN SPORT: Gulls Bank on Ties to Ducks, Higher Level of Play ■ By MICHAEL LIPKIN Lori Steele founder of Everyone Counts VIEW Seven minor league hockey teams have thinks it’s time to tried to make it in San Diego since 1944, none bring democracy up to date using the lasting much more than a decade and many tools of technology to folding as their leagues shut down. create a more secure So it may not immediately be clear why yet and at the same time another team is reviving the San Diego Gulls more open voting name this year to bring professional hockey process. Page 4 back to Valley View Casino Center, starting Oct. 10. But the shared name is one of the only things connecting the new Gulls to their ultimately unsuccessful predecessors. Special Report ¨Gulls page 14 Co.’s Space Mission Is To Protect, Deliver Data

Stephen Mayfi eld TECH: Space Micro Takes Shot of the Center for Algae At More Commercial Business Biotechnology is part of those working ■ By MICHAEL LIPKIN on the eco-friendly evolution of surfi ng. Our Sustainability In a few years, NASA will spend $87 million Surf Report reports to send its latest satellite into space, hoping to on what else is fi nd small planets roughly the size of Earth. heading for the beach. The satellite, dubbed TESS, will track the Page 15 brightness of a half-million stars over two years, watching for a fl icker caused as a planet crosses in front of the star it is orbiting. Development On board TESS, which is expected to Bill Wechter launch in August 2017, will be vital electronics Developer Douglas Manchester, standing on the roof of the 21-story former Sempra Energy building built by a San Diego company that enable that now houses his offices, is refocusing his energies on completing several major downtown TESS to process and send its data back to San Diego projects. ¨Space page 46

PROPERTY: A Project and Manchester is also now that building’s co-landlord, having purchased a 49 percent Ready or Not: New Stacey Pennington A Purchase Turn Developer’s stake in the Ash Street property from long- an urban planner time owner Sandor Shapery, who retained Credit Cards Arrive for Makers Quarter Attention Back to City’s Center a 51 percent stake in a $20 million deal said that artistic ■ and community By LOU HIRSH announced in July. event spaces have In a recent interview at his new offi ce, FINANCE: Changes in Liability contributed to creating Nearly 35 years after he built his earliest Manchester said a key reason for his Practices to Be Implemented an inviting sense of offi ce and hospitality projects in downtown corporate location choice — after many place for the area. San Diego, including the region’s fi rst high- years in La Jolla, where he resides, and ■ By MICHAEL LIPKIN Page 8 rise waterfront hotel, Douglas Manchester ’s more recently Mission Valley — was the primary development focus is now returning apparent jump-starting of his company’s Visa , MasterCard and American Express to that neighborhood. long-delayed, $1.25 billion redevelopment are hoping to speed adoption of an anti-fraud One of several changes this year for the The Lists of downtown’s Navy Broadway Complex. technology for credit and debit cards this longtime San Diego resident, who prefers month by warning retailers they may be liable Alternative Energy to be called “Papa Doug,” is his company’s Going Paperless for fraudulent activity in their stores unless Suppliers new home. Manchester Financial Group Page 17 With the 73-year-old Manchester recent- they get new card readers. recently moved into the 19th fl oor of the ly transitioning from publisher of the San But retailers seem slow to upgrade their Environmental downtown tower that previously housed Diego Union-Tribune—which he sold earlier point-of-sale systems and say the cost may Consultants Sempra Energy . not be worth it in industries with low-value ¨Manchester page 30 Page 18 transactions. ¨Cards page 32

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