The redevelopment of Mira Mesa's most important park seemed last spring, after nearly two decades of nothingness, to be on the cusp of becoming real. The project ran into a bureaucratic snag, and questions later surfaced about the city's financing plan.
SAN DIEGO
A new study shows businesses owned by women and minorities are getting significantly less than their fair share of the billions that San Diego awards in city contracts for construction projects, consulting and purchases of goods.
Businesses owned by White women and minorities received only 19 percent of $2.2 billion in city contracts awarded during a five-year period analyzed in the study, compared to the 31 percent the study says they should have landed.
When the results are broken down by individual group, the disparities are much larger for businesses owned by White women, Blacks and Native Americans than they are for businesses owned by Hispanics and Asians.