High-tech manufacturing facility to break ground
One of the largest industrial spaces planned for the Goleta area in recent years will soon break ground. Alliant Techsystems Space Systems plans to move the first dirt for a new 25,000-square-foot facility on Pine Avenue on Oct. 12, the company said in a release. Better known in the Tri-Counties as ATK Space Systems, the Read More →
PCBC stockholders approve new shares
Pacific Capital Bancorp shareholders passed two proposals on Sept. 29 that could make it easier for the capital-strapped banking firm to accommodate a new infusion of cash from investors and bolster its sagging stock price. Meeting at Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort in Santa Barbara, shareholders quickly voted to give Pacific Capital’s board the power to Read More →
Financier not at fault in daughter
[Editor’s note: An update is attached below.] The late financier Michael Klein wasn’t negligent in the crash that killed him, his daughter and a pilot when their plane slammed into the side of a volcano in Panama on Dec. 23, 2007, a jury found. The Santa Barbara Superior Court jury instead found that the pilot Read More →
Local economist: Real estate will unfreeze slowly
Luxury home prices are likely to remain frozen at current levels for a long time, a lingering effect of the panic that disrupted financial markets a year ago, a top economist said in Santa Barbara. Speaking on the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, California State University Channel Islands economist Sung Won Sohn said Read More →
Employee arrested on suspicion of stealing almost $1M
A Ventura County woman has been arrested on charges of stealing more than $950,000 from Conejo Valley Women’s Group. Elizabeth Ann Jones, a 43-year-old Newbury Park resident, was arrested on Sept. 10 on suspicion of grand theft, forgery, computer fraud and aggravated white collar crime enhancement following an investigation by the Ventura County Sherrif’s Department. Read More →
Pacific Capital faces shareholder lawsuit
A New York law firm is fishing for clients in a shareholder class-action suit it filed against Pacific Capital Bancorp. Stull, Stull & Brody filed a complaint in federal court in Los Angeles on Sept. 9 seeking to speak on behalf of Pacific Capital Bancorp’s common stockholders from April 30 to July 30. Pacific Capital Read More →
Breaking news: Affinity Bank seized by regulators
In the first bank failure in the Tri-Counties in almost 20 years, Ventura-based Affinity Bank was seized by federal regulators Aug. 28. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. took Affinity into receivership and said San Diego-based Pacific Western Bank will assume Affinity’s ten branches and $922 million in deposits. Pacific Western also agreed to buy essentially Read More →
