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A SPIRITED SOLUTION

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Ocean Home February/March 2025

HOW GIN & TONIC HELPED SHAPE DISCUSSIONS FOR A NEW HOME ON MISSION BAY IN SAN DIEGO.

- BY J. MICHAEL WELTON

A SPIRITED SOLUTION

Developer Chris Loughridge built his new house on a small lot. It takes advantage of its site by opening up to boardwalk and beach.

Sure, the Gin & Tonic may have saved "more Englishmen's lives and minds than all the doctors in the Empire," as Winston Churchill once said.

imageBut more recently, it played a key role in negotiating a San Diego property for real estate developer Chris Loughridge. Despite its zesty bite.

imageAbove: Architect Taal Safdie created places where people can hang out and enjoy themselves on the water. Below: The house faces left with a large overhang hovering inside and out.

imageIts tonic may taste bitter, but that's from the quinine contained in the 18th-century, antimalarial cocktail. And with a simple twist of lemon or lime, the G & T packs a double whammy: Its tangy dose of Vitamin C staves off scurvy too.

imageA few years back, though, when Loughridge was working on that 21st-century real estate deal in San Diego, the G & T had been elevated well beyond the realm of medicine.

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This story is from the Ocean Home February/March 2025 edition of Ocean Home.

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