San Diego Metropolitan History
San Diego Metropolitan was founded in 1986 by Sean Patrick Reily, a former account executive with an Orange County magazine. The publication started as a downtown-only newsprint magazine and then was expanded to include three editions serving the downtown, Mission Valley and Golden Triangle markets.
In 1995 Reily condensed the publications back to a single magazine with separate sections for each of the three areas. In July 1996, Reily sold the magazine to Gary Shaw, a long-time San Diego journalist and former editor of the San Diego Daily Transcript. Metro San Diego Communications Inc. was the corporation created to purchase the magazine and subsequent publications. Shaw brought on as his editor, and eventually minority partner, Tim McClain who had served as his managing editor at the Daily Transcript. John Davies, a prominent San Diego attorney, later bought a minority interest in the publication. Shaw introduced glossy pages and converted the magazine from a "pink" publication targeted at consumers and front-office workers to a business-lifestyle magazine. Covers were changed from featuring artwork to photographs of business, civic and non-profit leaders. It is one of the few major print publications in San Diego still 100 percent owned by local residents.
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