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San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA

The state of disclosed CRE credit in this market · CA
The read
$3.1B of CMBS across 146 loans. Nothing in this book is distressed today; Retail is the largest exposure at $876M. The heaviest maturity load lands in 2029 ($564M). Distress is flat in the filed record — 0.0% as of 2026-07. 99 on-the-ground distress events in the past year (4,220 jobs).
Overview
CMBS
Submarkets
Local Banks
Jobs & Demand
On The Ground
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The CMBS properties our stress model flags here, plus recent store closures and layoffs. Stressed is a wider net than distressed — the distressed figure above counts only loans already in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent, while these dots also include performing loans facing maturity or coverage pressure. Property dots sit at the center of their ZIP code, not the building — they show where stress concentrates, not which asset. Closures and layoffs are pinned to address where we have it. Open any dot to the building and the loan behind it →
San Diego's Book Is Clean — but the On-the-Ground Ledger Is Filling Up

San Diego carries $3.1 billion of CMBS across 146 loans, and by the servicer's own count none of it is distressed: the metro's distress rate stands at 0.0% as of July 2026, and it has been flat in the filed record. Retail is the heaviest exposure at $876 million and shows no distress against a 2.7% national retail rate. The pattern holds across the book — Office at $0.8 billion sits at 0.0% versus 11.3% nationally, Hospitality at $0.6 billion against 6.1%, and Mixed-Use at $0.4 billion against 5.0%. A 2.25 median DSCR underwrites the calm.

The refinancing wall is real but distant. The heaviest maturity load lands in 2029 at $564 million, with roughly $0.4 billion each rolling in 2027, 2030 and 2031, and $0.6 billion maturing inside the next 24 months. Every one of those maturity buckets currently reads 0.0% distressed.

The softer signal comes from outside the loan tapes. The metro logged 92 on-the-ground distress events over the past year — 25 store closures and 67 layoff notices — accounting for 3,984 jobs. Office-using employment is down 3.7% year over year, even as the metro's unemployment rate has eased to 4.7%, down 0.3 point. None of that has reached the servicer's ledger, but it is the record worth watching against a book that otherwise reads pristine.

CMBS Distressed UPB
under $1M / 0.0% in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent
CMBS Maturing ≤ 24mo
$644M
Local Banks (stressed)
0 / 9
Bank Early-Warning
1 flagged
Store Closures (1y)
30
Layoff Notices (1y)
69 / 4,220 jobs 0.33% of metro employment
CMBS Loans / UPB
146 / $3.1B
Unemployment · Jul 2026
4.7% -0.3pp yr
Office-Using Jobs · 2024
320,602 -3.7% yr

How much CRE distress is there in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA right now?

In San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA, distress signals are clearly elevated across most independent feeds. Store closures run at a rate of 2.01 per 100,000 jobs (20th of 392 metros by count, 168th by rate), while WARN layoff notices show 0.29% of the metro's employment (5th by count, 76th by rate). Bank CRE over the noncurrent line stands at 8.57% of allocated dollars (30th by count, 86th by rate).

However, the securitized loan leg reads 0.0% in special servicing, ranking 220th of 335 metros — this is notably quiet. Of the six possible pairings among the four legs, three show both elevated, zero both quiet, and three disagree. The disagreements are structural: closures hot with the tape quiet reads as retail failing on properties this tape doesn't hold; WARN hot with the tape quiet suggests employers cutting while the securitized book hasn't moved; and bank hot with tape quiet implies lenders are stressed on a portfolio the tape can't see. No adjudication was needed, as no leg is blind.

The figures behind this answer
SignalLevel Rate Rank by count Rank by rate Reading
store closures
store closures per 100,000 jobs
26 closures 2.01 per 100k jobs 20 of 392 168 of 392 elevated
trailing 365 days to today
layoff notices (WARN)
workers on layoff notices as a share of the metro's employment
144 notices 0.29% 5 of 386 76 of 386 elevated
trailing 365 days to today
bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line
share of the CRE lent into this metro that sits at a lender over the blended-noncurrent line
$1.90bn 8.57% 30 of 393 86 of 393 elevated
allocated
2026-03-31
securitized loans in special servicing
share of the securitized balance read here that is in special servicing
0 loan records 0% 220 of 335 220 of 335 quiet
2026-07-29
6 pairs compared 3 both elevated 0 both quiet 3 disagreeing 0 unreadable — a side is blind 3 of four legs elevated
one metro, four independent feeds, each on its own denominator
{'coverage': "114 of 441 metros have at least one blind leg and 48 are blind on all four. Those 48 are the same metros the board's map cannot place and the metro resolver cannot name: one ZIP-to-CBSA crosswalk boundary, showing up three ways.", 'a_count_ranks_by_size': 'Elevation is computed on the COUNT, over a flat threshold, which is a size filter. New York is 2nd of 392 by store closures and 264th of the same 392 by closures per job — both true, and which one you lead with decides what the reader believes. Every leg carries both ranks over ONE population; quote the rate beside the count.', 'disagreement_is_not_severity': 'Where two legs disagree, that is usually a fact about WHICH mechanism is running, not an error in either feed and not a worse metro. The six pairs read different populations, and each note is a STRUCTURAL prior about those populations — nothing here measures a lead or a lag between two legs, so never report one as timing.', 'a_blind_leg_is_not_a_quiet_one': "A leg with no denominator, or whose numerator cannot be measured, reads LOW and means nothing. Each leg publishes a measurement state (allocated, floor, measured, no denominator, no rate, not measurable) for that reason. Never report a blind leg as 'no distress'."}
{'leg': 'closures', 'unit': 'jobs', 'as_of': 'trailing 365 days to today', 'value': 1291034, 'measures': 'store closures', 'available': True, 'as_of_kind': 'window', 'what_it_is': "all metro jobs, QCEW annual average — a SIZE normaliser, not a matched population: the feed spans retail, food service and pharmacy and no single QCEW sector covers it. The MATCHED read sits beside it as this leg's second reading"}
{'leg': 'warn', 'unit': 'employed', 'as_of': 'trailing 365 days to today', 'value': 1567556, 'measures': 'layoff notices (WARN)', 'available': True, 'as_of_kind': 'window', 'what_it_is': 'employed persons, BLS LAUS, not seasonally adjusted'}
{'leg': 'bank', 'unit': '$mm', 'as_of': '2026-03-31', 'value': 22147.8, 'measures': 'bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line', 'available': True, 'as_of_kind': 'stamp', 'what_it_is': 'bank CRE allocated to this metro by branch deposits'}
{'leg': 'cmbs', 'unit': '$mm', 'as_of': '2026-07-29', 'value': 3254.0, 'measures': 'securitized loans in special servicing', 'available': True, 'as_of_kind': 'stamp', 'what_it_is': "current balance on the non-pari-passu rows of this tape — the trust's slice, not the whole loan, on both sides of the ratio"}
Written from the figures above · CBSA 41740 · stress_metro · last changed 28 Aug 2026 · Ask your own question →

Which distress signals are elevated in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA, and which cannot be read?

In San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA, the elevated distress signals include bank-distressed CRE (with distressed lender CRE at $1.90bn and 10.1% of bank CRE at risk at the 90th percentile), store closures (26 in one year), and WARN notices (144 in one year). The reading for CMBS special servicing is unavailable, as the CMBS special servicing UPB is $0.0mm with a 0.0% share of metro UPB, indicating no CMBS distress is currently measurable.

The figures behind this answer
CMBS in special servicing
$0.0mm
… as a share of this metro's CMBS balance
0.0%
Bank CRE lent into this metro
$22.15bn
… at risk at the 90th percentile
10.1%
CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line
$1.90bn
Assets at those lenders
$0.00bn
… share needing no branch-deposit allocation
3.3%
Signals reading elevated
bank CRE over the noncurrent line, store closures, WARN layoff notices
Legs agreeing
3
Phase
early
CMBS loans in special servicing
0
Distressed banks
0
Store closures (past year)
26
WARN notices (past year)
144
the ground is deteriorating but CRE credit has not yet been hit — the leading edge
little to no distressed CRE dollars behind the signals
the ground is wobbling (closures / layoffs) but little CRE-credit distress sits behind it yet — a real-economy signal, not (yet) a CRE-credit event
Written from the figures above · CBSA 41740 · geo_metro_signals · last changed 28 Aug 2026 · Ask your own question →
Jobs & Demand — the labor market under the collateralWatch it change →
Every other zone on this page reads the credit — what the loan is doing. This one reads the demand underneath it. Office jobs pay office rent; office rent services the office loan. When the jobs go, the DSCR follows — but not for another year or two. That lag is the whole point of looking here.
Unemployment · Jul 2026
4.7% -0.3pp yr
Last 24 months
3.9%5.1%
Monthly metro unemployment (BLS LAUS) — the freshest labor signal there is, about six weeks behind. Read the direction, not the level: a 4% metro that is rising and a 6% metro that is falling are not telling you the same thing.
Jobs by CRE-relevant sector · 2024
Office-using
320,602 jobs · -3.7% yr · 25% of all jobs
Retail trade
136,918 jobs · -1.1% yr
Industrial
36,073 jobs · +4.5% yr
Annual employment by sector (BLS QCEW, 2024; 1,291,034 jobs in the metro). QCEW lags — it is the structural read, not the current one, and we pair it with the monthly unemployment above on purpose. Office-using sums five supersectors; where BLS withholds any one of them for disclosure, we show nothing rather than a number we know is too low — so a missing sector here means “suppressed at the source,” not “zero.”
Sector Heat — CMBS distress rate by property type (metro vs national)See the loans behind the bar →
This metro's CMBS runs 0.0% distressed where its own property mix predicts 6.0% — $185M less than this book would carry at the rate each property type runs elsewhere in the country, dollar-weighted and excluding this metro. The gap is measured; the cause is not. 0 of 5 property types here run a higher distress rate than the national average for that type (the tick on each bar).
Hospitality
0.0% metro · 6.1% US · $559M
Industrial
0.0% metro · 2.7% US · $207M
Mixed-Use
0.0% metro · 5.0% US · $397M
Office
0.0% metro · 11.3% US · $802M
Retail
0.0% metro · 2.7% US · $876M
Elimination — does the gap survive a control?
Each row re-prices this metro's book on a finer cell — its own property types, then those types split by loan size, then by vintage — always at the rate that cell runs elsewhere in the country, dollar-weighted. A gap that shrinks toward zero is explained by the control; one that stays has ruled it out. What is measured is what survives, not a cause.
property mix alone
-6.0pp
… and loan size held fixed
-6.0pp
the gap is still there with loan size held fixed too
… and vintage held fixed
-4.9pp
the gap is still there with vintage held fixed too
The largest single contributor is Office: 37 loans, $802M, running 0.0% where the same type runs 11.4% elsewhere — worth 3.0pp of this metro's own rate.
Maturity Wall — CMBS coming due by year, distress within eachSee what’s maturing →
$644M — 21% of the metro's balance — matures within two years; the red slice of each bar is already distressed.
2026
$25M · 5 loans · 0.0%
2027
$438M · 26 loans · 0.0%
2028
$396M · 24 loans · 0.0%
2029
$564M · 30 loans · 0.0%
2030
$448M · 18 loans · 0.0%
2031
$420M · 25 loans · 0.0%
2032
$60M · 5 loans · 0.0%
2033
$419M · 2 loans · 0.0%
2034
$160M · 4 loans · 0.0%
2035
$93M · 6 loans · 0.0%
2036
$72M · 1 loan · 0.0%
Distress Trend — is this market turning?Track it quarter by quarter →
Realized distress is FLAT0.0% now (2026-07), +0.0pp over the year.
Same definition as the cards above — distressed means in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent, dollar-weighted — on a different clock. The cards are today’s tape; this is the disclosed history panel, quarter by quarter, so you can read direction rather than level. Trusts file monthly, so a quarter is usually well covered within weeks of opening and the newest one shown is normally the current one; it is withheld only when its filed book falls below 60% of recent quarters.
Share of the metro’s CMBS in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent, by quarter — a firmer, backward-looking read. A loan under 1.0x DSCR that is still paying is not counted here.
Submarket Heat — where in the metro the distress sitsOpen the submarket →
The top three submarkets hold $1.1B of the metro's $3.1B; each bar's colored share is its distress rate.
Mission Valley
$523M · 0.0%
Point Loma / Sports Arena
$312M · 0.0%
Downtown San Diego
$293M · 0.0%
Kearny Mesa
$260M · 0.0%
Chula Vista / South County
$242M · 0.0%
Del Mar Heights / Carmel Valley
$223M · 0.0%
UTC / La Jolla
$170M · 0.0%
Encinitas / Solana Beach
$158M · 0.0%
Rancho Bernardo / I-15 Corridor
$156M · 0.0%
Carlsbad
$118M · 0.0%
Vista / San Marcos
$115M · 0.0%
El Cajon / East County
$111M · 0.0%
Sorrento Mesa / Sorrento Valley
$104M · 0.0%
Oceanside
$81M · 0.0%
Scripps Ranch
$64M · 0.0%
La Mesa / Spring Valley
$61M · 0.0%
Escondido
$50M · 0.0%
National City
$35M · 0.0%
Mira Mesa
$19M · 0.0%
Bank Door — what the local bank sector could absorbSee it on every loan’s exit read →
$644M of CMBS matures here within two years. The 15 regional and local banks that gather deposits here could write roughly $357M more CRE before the 300% supervisory line, so the maturing balance is 1.80× that room. The median metro sits at 0.12×.
Regional Bank Room
$357M
After Committed Draws
$220M / −37%
Maturing ÷ Room
1.80×
Banks In Footprint
15 / 4 at the line
The room above is already part-sold. Construction lending is a promise drawn down over two or three years, and the undrawn part is an obligation the bank cannot decline while the borrower performs — every one of those dollars lands in the same CRE book the 300% line governs. These banks have $295M of construction committed and not yet advanced, of which $129M comes out of the room above, leaving $220M, with 8 banks whose entire remaining room is spoken for. A bank with no room contributes zero here, never a negative one — capacity does not net across balance sheets — so $166M of what has been promised is not deducted at all, because there is nothing left to deduct it from. On today’s capital that is funding already contracted which would cross the line as it draws. SR 06-26 draws a second line at 100% of capital for construction and land: 2 more cross it once their own commitments fund. 2% of the room above sits at banks we could not match to a commitment filing; they are left out of this deduction rather than assumed to have promised nothing.
Counted — 15 regional & local CRE lenders
BankDeposit shareCRE / Capital*Room contributedNoncurrent CRE
Endeavor Bank CA 100.0% 182%
total 416%
🔒 0.54%
Calprivate Bank CA 57.5% 252%
total 431%
🔒 0.40%
Banner Bank WA 5.9% 253%
total 379%
🔒 0.22%
First Bank MO 3.1% 184%
total 273%
🔒 0.09%
Banc Of California CA 6.6% 291%
total 334%
🔒 4.24%
Balboa Thrift And Loan Association CA 58.5% 235%
total 238%
🔒 0.00%
Shinhan Bank America NY 6.8% 257%
total 382%
🔒 0.88%
State Bank Of India (California) CA 14.1% 276%
total 327%
🔒 1.91%
First Pacific Bank CA 23.1% 243%
total 395%
🔒 0.31%
Citizens Business Bank, National Association CA 1.1% 281%
total 406%
🔒 0.06%
Beach Cities Commercial Bank CA 18.6% 273%
total 633%
🔒 0.00%
C3bank, National Association CA 84.9% 361%
total 403%
🔒 0.00%
California Bank Of Commerce, National Association CA 22.0% 313%
total 437%
🔒 0.22%
Poppy Bank CA 2.7% 360%
total 557%
🔒 2.15%
Mechanics Bank CA 0.0% 340%
total 362%
🔒 0.30%
Not counted — 25 banks with deposits here
These hold deposits in this metro but are left out of the capacity above, because for them deposit location stops indicating where they lend — or they do not lend CRE at all. Real money that could refinance here is deliberately not counted.
no CRE book — CRE under 100% of capital — not a CRE lender
Jpmorgan Chase Bank, National Association OH · Wells Fargo Bank, National Association SD · Bank Of America, National Association NC · U.s. Bank National Association OH · Citibank, National Association SD · Pnc Bank, National Association DE · Bmo Bank National Association IL · First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company NC · Hatch Bank CA · The Northern Trust Company IL · Monet Bank TX
national — operates in more than 5 states, so deposits stop indicating where it lends
Western Alliance Bank AZ · Zions Bancorporation, N.a. UT · Enterprise Bank & Trust MO · City National Bank CA · East West Bank CA · Midfirst Bank OK · Sunflower Bank, National Association TX · Cathay Bank CA · Bank Of Hope CA · Columbia Bank OR · Hanmi Bank CA
booked here — books nearly all deposits to one branch — a charter address, not a footprint
Axos Bank CA · Neighborhood National Bank CA · Home Bank Of California CA
* Two ratios, two perimeters. The large figure is supervisory CRE over total risk-based capital — construction, multifamily and non-owner-occupied nonfarm nonresidential. That is the book SR 06-26 draws its 300% line against, and it is what the red coloring and the room contributed are both measured on. Total beneath it adds owner-occupied CRE — lending to a business on its own premises — which the guidance deliberately leaves out. A bank can sit well above 300% on total CRE and still be inside the line, with real room to lend; both are shown so the gap is visible rather than surprising.
How to read this. It is not whether any particular loan can refinance — a borrower also reaches national banks, life companies, agencies and debt funds. It is how much of this metro’s maturing volume the local bank sector could absorb if it were the only door. Banks are placed by deposit share (FDIC Summary of Deposits, June 2025) — a proxy for where they lend, not a measurement; call reports carry no collateral geography. Room = 3× total risk-based capital less CRE held (SR 06-26, the capital base the rule names — not book equity), from Q2 2026 call reports, apportioned by that share. Committed construction comes from FFIEC Schedule RC-L as filed at 2026-06-30 — the undrawn half of loans already written, which the balance sheet above does not show. Banks in more than 5 states, single-branch bookers and banks that do not lend CRE are excluded — 313 banks holding $268.2B of national capacity not counted here.
Local Lenders — banks headquartered here, worst CRE noncurrent firstUnlock each bank’s early-warning flag →
BankTotal CRECRE / Capital*Noncurrent CREEarly Warning
Balboa Thrift And Loan Association $101M 235%
total 238%
0.00% 🔒
Endeavor Bank $433M 182%
total 416%
0.54% 🔒
Calprivate Bank $1.4B 252%
total 431%
0.40% 🔒
California Bank Of Commerce, National Association $2.3B 313%
total 437%
0.22% 🔒
Axos Bank $5.6B 188%
total 194%
0.09% 🔒
C3bank, National Association $407M 361%
total 403%
0.00% 🔒
Home Bank Of California $182M 404%
total 582%
0.00% 🔒
Neighborhood National Bank $139M 298%
total 541%
0.00% 🔒
* Two ratios, two perimeters. The large figure is supervisory CRE over total risk-based capital — construction, multifamily and non-owner-occupied nonfarm nonresidential. That is the book SR 06-26 draws its 300% line against, and it is what the red coloring and the room contributed are both measured on. Total beneath it adds owner-occupied CRE — lending to a business on its own premises — which the guidance deliberately leaves out. A bank can sit well above 300% on total CRE and still be inside the line, with real room to lend; both are shown so the gap is visible rather than surprising.
Banks are matched to their HQ metro (a proxy for footprint). Noncurrent CRE = CRE-balance-weighted blend of multifamily / nonresidential / construction noncurrent (distress already arrived). Early Warning is a validated leading signal — the bank’s 30-89 early-delinquency rank among all CRE lenders this quarter, which has predicted ~2.3× forward CRE distress. Per-bank flags are on a plan.

Do the banks lending in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA have the capacity to refinance its maturing CRE?

In San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA, local bank capacity to refinance maturing CRE appears tight: the metros wall-to-room ratio stands at 2.92, ranking it 21 of 270 among the most strained metros. Regional and community banks have room after committed draws of $220.4mm versus a maturing CMBS balance of $643.6mm across 43 loans, leaving a substantial shortfall even before accounting for committed draws of $295.2mm (room before committed is $357.1mm). However, this reading is likely an exclusion artifact: only 15 banks qualify here versus 14 excluded, and the distressed share is 0.0%, so the apparent strain may reflect that deposit-based footprints undercount lenders serving this market rather than genuine credit distress.

The figures behind this answer
CMBS maturing in the window
$643.6mm
… across this many loans
43
Local bank room, before committed draws
$357.1mm
Committed construction draws
$295.2mm
Local bank room, after those draws
$220.4mm
Wall-to-room ratio
2.92
Rank, most strained
21
… out of this many metros ranked
270
… before committed draws
1.80
Population ranked against
CMBS maturing within 24 months against regional/community bank room in this metro
Qualifying local banks
15
… excluded from the calculation
14
Distressed share of this metro's CMBS
0.0%
Total CMBS balance here
$3.10bn
Capacity band
tight
Compared against a median wall-to-room ratio of 0.20 across the ranked metros.
2.92 is ABOVE the median of 0.20, so this metro is MORE strained than the typical ranked metro
21 of 270, counting from the MOST strained — a LOWER rank number means MORE strain
{'room_is_a_proxy': 'Room is what regional and community banks could still write before the SR 06-26 concentration line, after deducting construction draws already committed. Deposit footprint is a proxy for lending footprint, not a measurement of it.', 'ratio_is_not_size': 'The most extreme ratios belong to the smallest metros. Read maturing_bal_mm beside the ratio — the map sizes bubbles by the wall, not the strain, for exactly this reason.', 'wall_is_cmbs_only': "The wall is the CMBS balance maturing within 24 months — the maturing debt this platform can see, not the metro's whole maturity load. Every ratio is an upper bound on how much of it local banks would have to absorb.", 'exclusion_artifact': 'A high ratio is as often an exclusion artifact as a credit event. Banks whose deposits do not indicate where they lend (nationals, card and charter banks) are excluded from the room, so a metro served mainly by those reads strained while its credit is simply invisible here. Check banks_qualifying against banks_excluded_here, and explained_by_exclusion.'}
Written from the figures above · CBSA 41740 · capacity_metro · last changed 06 Sep 2026 · Ask your own question →
Apartment-REIT Operating Read — same-store disclosures for this metro · as of 2026-07-30Set against the loan book →
Same-Store NOI
+0.4%
Same-Store Revenue
+1.4%
Occupancy
95.8%
Rent Growth
+1.3%
REITSS NOISS RevenueOccupancyRentAs Of
AVB +1.5% 96.0% +1.6% 2026-07-30
CPT -0.2% +1.3% 95.5% +0.7% 2026-04-30
EQR +1.0% +1.3% 96.0% +1.7% 2026-04-28
ESS +1.5% 95.7% 2026-07-30
Same-store operating results disclosed by public apartment REITs (AVB · EQR · ESS · MAA · CPT · UDR) for this market in their quarterly supplements. Directional market context — an operating trend, not a Verstavo score.
On The Ground — recent closures, layoffs & CRE bankruptciesTie these events to loans →
99 local distress events in the past year (4,220 jobs) — store closures, layoffs, and commercial real estate bankruptcies near this metro's collateral.
2026-12-31
CLOSURE
Grocery Outlet
El Cajon
2026-12-31
CLOSURE
Grocery Outlet
El Cajon
2026-12-31
CLOSURE
Grocery Outlet
Poway
2026-12-31
CLOSURE
Grocery Outlet
Poway
2026-09-09
LAYOFF
Sapporo U.S.A. (1999 Citracado Parkway)
200 jobs · Escondido
2026-09-04
LAYOFF
SonTek (Xylem, Inc.)
36 jobs · San Diego
2026-08-31
CLOSURE
F45 Training
La Mesa
2026-08-26
LAYOFF
Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego
San Diego
2026-08-24
CLOSURE
F45 Training
San Diego
2026-08-24
LAYOFF
Sapporo USA
Escondido
2026-08-22
LAYOFF
Stone Brewing
Escondido
2026-08-19
LAYOFF
Stone Brewing CO., LLC - Citracado Parkway
50 jobs · Escondido
2026-08-17
LAYOFF
ICA
San Diego
2026-08-17
LAYOFF
ICA San Diego
San Diego
2026-08-16
CLOSURE
The Roadies Brewing Co.
San Diego

What has actually happened on the ground in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA recently?

Over the past 365 days, San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA has recorded 68 WARN notices, affecting at least 4,063 jobs (a floor, since notices without headcounts contribute 0), and 26 confirmed store closures (approved rows only, ZIP-matched to the metro). Distress signals include 3 CRE-likely bankruptcy filings, though these are a state proxy — not a metro-native count — and the actual number of local CRE bankruptcies is unavailable.

The figures behind this answer
Store closures
26
WARN layoff notices
68
Jobs on those notices
4,063
CRE-related bankruptcies
3
Window, in days
365
STATE PROXY — bankruptcy filings carry the filer's state, not the property's location, so this counts CRE-likely filings in the states this metro's collateral sits in. It is not a metro-native count.
affected_employees is nullable — notices that state no headcount are counted but contribute 0 jobs, so this is a floor.
Closures are matched ZIP -> CBSA and only APPROVED rows count (a pending, machine-extracted row is not yet a closure). This mirrors the Metro Pulse page, not the convergence board — the board applies neither filter and counts higher. Layoffs take the same ZIP -> CBSA and review treatment, and a WARN notice counts if it affects >= 10 people or does not state a headcount (a NULL is not 'fewer than 10').
Written from the figures above · CBSA 41740 · geo_events · last changed 06 Sep 2026 · Ask your own question →
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