Dubroff: Loan program will stabilize America’s small businesses
Within the next week or so, thousands of small companies are going to be applying for loans — and possible loan forgiveness — under the Paycheck Protection Program or PPP that’s part of the $2 trillion in federal funding approved under the CARES Act. I’ve been studying the PPP since the first details began to Read More →
Hair: Evictions might be on hold but landlords still want rent
As the end of the month approaches, the question of rent looms — who can pay it, and what happens when people don’t? The answer depends on where you live. On March 24, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to place a ban on evictions through May 31. On the same day, Read More →
Leonard: How coronavirus impacts construction
By Sean Leonard The coronavirus is impacting all of our daily lives in ways we would not have imagined 60 days ago. The situation is fluid as each day brings new understanding and changing public policy. The potential impacts to the construction industry are wide reaching. Consequences on a project site can include shelter-in-place directives Read More →
Dubroff: Predicting the impact of coronavirus on the economy
One thing is clear about the coronavirus pandemic — it is moving so fast moving that it is an almost perfect made-for-Twitter event. News updates come so frequently that it is a 24/7 phenomenon. But that speed sometimes makes for a poor framework for decision-making and, as Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman told me in a Read More →
T.O. industrial building sold for biotech lab redevelopment
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Dubroff: Assessing the impact on tri-county economy
It might be the understatement of the new decade to say that the economics of coronavirus are not well understood. That doesn’t help the hundreds of hotel and restaurant workers who’ve been laid off during a crisis that Acme Hospitality Group leader Sherry Villanueva described as “unprecedented and still unfolding” in a note explaining why Read More →
Dubroff: 20 years in business and the challenges keep coming
When a very small team launched Pacific Coast Business Times in March 2000, there was still a bit of optimism about a new decade and a new century. But there were clouds on the horizon as we sat in an alcove of our printer down by West Beach and used an ancient Mac to build Read More →
