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Concert venue plans humming along By Bianca Kaplanek
DEL MAR — Plans to transform Surfside Race Place into a 1,900-seat concert and entertainment venue are officially under way. The 22nd District Agricultural Association board of directors, at the Jan. 3 meeting, authorized staff to begin identifying funding sources, hiring a full-time project manager and securing detailed planning, scheduling, budgeting and engineering drawings. They also agreed to form partnering relationships with concert booking and promotion experts and approved a not-to-exceed $250,000 budget for the preliminary work. Additionally, the 22nd DAA, which governs the Del Mar Fairgrounds where Surfside is located, TURN TO SURFSIDE ON A14
The Del Mar Fairgrounds board of directors initiates preliminary activity to transform Surfside Race Place into a 1,900-seat concert and entertainment venue. File photo by Bianca Kaplanek
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ENCINITAS — A little over a month after the Encinitas Planning Commission signaled it would look at limiting alcohol sales along Coast Highway 101, the group must decide the fate of a beer tasting room in Old Encinitas. City planning staff is recommending the commission approve the proposed Culture Brewing Beer Tasting Room, which would be in the former Cork & Keg Bottle and Gift Shop building near Coast Highway 101 and E Street. The Solana Beachbased brewer currently operates tasting rooms in Solana Beach and Ocean Beach. A representative from Culture Brewing said while he is concerned about the
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brewery’s ability to get a fair hearing in Encinitas given the anti-alcohol rhetoric, he feels that the tasting room wouldn’t cause the problems associated with bars and other establishments that have led to growing concerns in town. “There is no way that this community will turn into PB (Pacific Beach),” said Steve Ragan, a brewmaster and co-founder of Culture Brewing, referring to the belief held by some residents that Encinitas’s coastal drag could become like the rowdy bar scene in the San Diego neighborhood. “Although there might be small windows of time where they appear similar, my business will not contribute to that at all, in fact it will be the opposite.” The decision regarding the tasting room comes a month after the commission hosted a workshop in
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