Thousand Oaks, Santa Barbara and Morro Bay will be part of the 2016 Tour of California professional bicycle race. Organizers announced the route at a news conference Oct. 22 in San Diego. The 2016 race will run 800 miles from San Diego to Sacramento from May 15 to May 22. This year will also be Read More →
The El Segundo-based grocer Fresh & Easy will close all of its stores throughout California, Arizona and Nevada, including seven tri-county locations, the company announced Oct. 21. Tesco, the third largest global retailer based in the United Kingdom, opened the small format grocery chain in 2007. It filed for bankruptcy protection in 2013 after the concept Read More →
Haggen will be able to sell all of its stores in California, Arizona and Nevada, including 36 to Smart & Final and Gelson’s Markets, a Delaware bankruptcy court ruled. Smart & Final and Gelson’s got the first pick of the 127 shuttering Haggen stores. Commerce-based grocer Smart & Final signed a deal for 28 Read More →
Tom Adamski of San Luis Obispo, who was chief executive officer of Publicis Groupe’s Razorfish Global network, died after a battle with cancer. He was 43 years old. Adamski was an advertising account executive at Web Associates in Santa Barbara, which later became Level Studios and relocated to San Luis Obispo. He served as CEO Read More →
A team from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo placed third at the U.S. Department of Energy’s biennial solar decathlon in Irvine on Oct. 17. For the competition, about 100 Cal Poly students designed and built a house that was powered only by solar energy. The Department of Energy held the competition to accelerate the adoption Read More →
Ontario-based Citizens Business Bank will acquire Oxnard-based County Commerce Bank in a cash and stock deal announced Oct. 14. The deal will strengthen Citizens’ commercial banking presence in Ventura County and CCB will have more lending power, the companies said in a news release. In exchange for all of CCB’s common stock and options, Citizens Read More →
Appfolio is expanding in Goleta. Appfolio will lease an additional 7,855 square feet of space at its office at 50 Castilian Drive in Goleta, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Oct. 14. The new space will increase the amount of space Appfolio leases from Nassau Land Company to 26,490 square Read More →
