Marian rebuilding project to top $210M
UncategorizedThe framework has been set for one of the biggest construction projects to ever hit the Central Coast. On June 11, the towering four-story steel skeleton in Santa Maria was completed — the first step in a $210 million expansion project at Marian Medical Center. In response to the rapidly growing population of the Santa Read More →
Feds give $14M for training
UncategorizedThe Tri-Counties’ Workforce Investment Boards have gotten nearly $14 million in federal stimulus money and are teaming up to go after an additional $1 million grant to help create green jobs in the region. The boards have both public- and private-sector members and oversee federal workforce investment money that flows through the state government. Much Read More →
Top executives followed their own paths
UncategorizedFollow your own instincts. Don’t be afraid to go against the conventional wisdom. Chaos creates opportunities. Those were the lessons that two of the Tri-Counties’ top business leaders hammered home at the annual South Coast Business & Technology Awards Dinner on June 4. The annual dinner has become an attraction for business leaders from across Read More →
Trouble in Thousand Oaks – Rancho Serrano developers file Chapter 11
UncategorizedThe developers of 22 upscale townhomes near the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza face civil claims that they failed to repay a $9.1 million construction loan and have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The lawsuit and bankruptcy are the latest in a string of woes for residential real estate developers in the Tri-Counties who are Read More →
Your guide to financial sanity – Green Sherpa takes money management software online
Women Inc.As a financial advisor for nearly 15 years, Erin Lozano became good at seeing patterns in the numbers she crunched. Overspending on clothes … again? Check for overspending in other areas. Spending more on luxury items than on educational entertainment for the kids? Budgets and values may need realignment. These “life layer” patterns of personal Read More →
A first-hand look at future of automakers
ColumnsListen to the CNBC gang talk about the collapse of the automotive industry and you just might believe we have witnessed a catastrophe equal to the dinosaur extinction. But to Jamey Power, whose family pioneered the idea that customer satisfaction could be a driver for auto sales, the bankruptcies of General Motors and Chrysler signal Read More →
In this fight the winner, by split decision, is plaintiffs
ColumnsCallWave’s attempt to take itself private caused a brief flare-up in Santa Barbara County Superior Court that likely will result in a payday for some out-of-town attorneys. The former Santa Barbara company hit the markets with a $40 million initial public offering in 2004. But its flagship products — most notably, a service to let Read More →
