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Article: Carlsbad goes about business of prospering. (Carlsbad, California)
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- San Diego Business Journal
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- August 19, 1996
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Young city is now giant in golf, high tech
CARLSBAD - Coronado has its Hotel Del and its beaches, Sorrento Mesa has its high-tech industries, and San Diego has its theme parks. But Carlsbad has all three, or will when Lego Family Park comes on-line in 1999.
A young city chartered in 1952, Carlsbad has grown from a bedroom suburb of 30,000 in the 1970s to a full-fledged city of nearly 70,000 today.
It is the golf-equipment manufacturing capital of the world, a still-emerging center of biotech and high-tech, home of the famous flower fields near Palomar Airport Road, and three lagoons and beaches offer views and recreation associated with San Diego ...