Port of San Diego’s Urban Trees Exhibit Goes Viral

Major kudos to the Port of San Diego:

“OMG, text messaging has come to the Port. This new form of Port communication was unveiled when the Public Art department rolled out its fifth installment of Urban Trees. Text messaging, or texting, is sending out "short" text messages from mobile phones using the Short Message Service (SMS). It is available on most digital mobile phones. On each of the 31 Urban Tree sculptures is a title plaque that credits the artist and Port for the exhibit. Also included is the short code 69944. By typing, or texting, a unique code assigned to each tree, text users can receive additional information about the artwork.

To see how text messaging works with the Port's Urban Tree exhibit, send a text message on your cell phone to 69944. In the body of the message, type "TREE01" and you will receive a reply with information about the tree titled "Ramble On." For more information on other trees, just swap out "01" for another number, up to 31. Standard text rates apply.”

For more information visit: http://www.portofsandiego.org/public-art/1453-learn-about-the-ports-urban-trees-via-your-phone.html

“Time to Spring-Diego”

Great news! The San DieGO Downtown has been approved by the San Diego Tourism Promotion Corporation, a nonprofit mutual benefit corporation dedicated to improving tourism and hotel room night consumption in the City of San Diego, for a spring travel campaign called “Time to Spring-Diego!” If you know someone looking to travel to San Diego, March 1st – April 31st, please direct them to book their travel and hotel room nights on the San DieGO Downtown Web site!!!!

To make trips more cost effective, convenient and all around extra fun, we have created sample trip itineraries, event calendar listings, and more to ensure every moment is maximized to the fullest.

San DieGO Downtown Launches New Blog!!!!

We are so thrilled to report our new blog for the San DieGO Downtown program! For those of you unaware, the San DieGO Downtown program was created back in July 2005 as an outreach tool to bring awareness to San Diego’s urban playground. We partnered with various organizations and business in San Diego to launch it, and we are now in our 4th year and still trucking away.

Our newly designed Web site is here to serve as a resource, both for visitors to San Diego, local residents, and media looking to cover Downtown San Diego. We have information on hotels, restaurants, shopping, nightlife, happy hours, attractions, and cultural establishments within the Downtown 92101 zip code (Marina, Gaslamp Quarter, Little Italy, East Village, Cortez, Columbia, Horton Plaza, and Core).

We hope you find the information useful and will spread the word about our site to your friends, family, co-workers, babysitters, roommates, neighbors, bartenders …essentially anyone and everyone to help our site grow!!!!!