Confessions of a Digital Heretic: Nonprofit journalism crashes the paywall
By Henry Dubroff When Pacific Coast Business Times staff writer Alex Kacik won a USC Annenberg School fellowship in health journalism this year, the last thing on my mind what that his project would run head-on into our paywall. But that’s precisely what happened after he wrote the first in a series of stories about Read More →
Resonant hires new chief financial officer
Resonant, a late stage Goleta development company designing small smartphone technology, said Oct. 12 it named Jeff Killian its new chief financial officer. Killian previously served as the CFO of Oregon-based Cascade Microtech from April 2010 until June 2016,, when Cascade Microtech was acquired. Killian will receive a salary of $275,000 and a signing bonus Read More →
Amgen sells Colorado facility to AstraZeneca for $64.5 million
Thousand Oaks biotech giant Amgen continued its Colorado exit plans recently as it sold a Longmont, Colo., facility to London-based pharmaceutical and biotech company AstraZeneca for $64.5 million. Amgen built the 692,000-square-foot facility in the 1990s to make ingredients for its blockbuster anti-anemia drug Epogen. The site used large vats to produce lines of cell Read More →
Invoca’s new CEO former Salesforce.com executive
A Salesforce.com executive is the new CEO of Santa Barbara call intelligence company Invoca, the company announced Oct. 11. Greg Johnson took over at the beginning of October for former CEO Mark Woodward, who stepped aside after 15 months as Invoca CEO because of personal matters. Johnson, formerly a senior vice president of product management Read More →
Avis Rent a Car property in Funk Zone purchased for $2.5 million
The Avis Rent A Car location in Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone was purchased in a sale-leaseback transaction for more than $2.5 million, Lee & Associates announced on Oct. 11. The transaction of the 1,350-square-foot property at 34 E. Montecito St. marked a record-setting price per square foot at $1,866, said Lee & Associates’ Rob Adams, Read More →
Lure Fish House property in Westlake Village sold
Story updated Oct. 13 at 10 p.m.: The Lure Fish House property in Westlake Village was sold for $6 million to private investor Lucrit LLC, Westcord Commercial Group announced on Oct. 10. The 7,470-square-foot property sits on a 1.76-acre parcel at 30970 Russell Ranch Road. Tony Principe of Westcord and Kamal Banki represented the buyer Read More →
Lloyd Properties donates 860 acres on Ventura hillsides to conservation trust
Owners of the Lloyd Ranch in Ventura donated 860 acres of agricultural and open space to the Rancho San Buenaventura Conservation Trust. Gary Brummett, president of Lloyd Properties, said he is proud to partner with the conservation trust to preserve part of the Ventura hillsides, an area that has been eyed by developers for many Read More →
