By pacbiztimes / Friday, September 18th, 2015 / Columns, Real Estate / Comments Off on Project to build hotel, housing in Carpinteria up for review
The Carpinteria City Council and Planning Commission will review a proposal next week for a 154-room hotel, 45 single-family houses and 40 multifamily apartments. The 23.4-acre project is slated for the Bluffs 1 property between the Carpinteria Bluffs Nature Preserve and city hall, which is currently home to a driving range and blueberry crops. Jack Read More →
Synergy convinced David Potter to locate his second Santa Barbara wine venture at The Mill, a newly renovated 1904 building that has been converted into an artisan marketplace. Since 2007, Potter has owned Municipal Winemakers, whose no-frills tasting room in the city’s Funk Zone offers his everyday-priced wines. His new brand, named Potek after Read More →
By Henry Dubroff / Friday, September 11th, 2015 / Columns, Personal Finance / Comments Off on Dubroff: Investors should be skeptical about exchange-traded funds
Exchange-traded funds are the newest, latest, greatest Wall Street creation. In the past decade and a half, they’ve grown from a niche product with just $72 billion in assets invested to a behemoth totaling $2.7 trillion. Thanks to real-time daily pricing and low fees, ETFs are rapidly supplanting mutual funds in retail accounts. But the Read More →
By pacbiztimes / Friday, September 11th, 2015 / Columns, Real Estate / Comments Off on Santa Barbara Museum of Art plans $50M renovation project
The proposed overhaul of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art is going through the final stages of approval. The $50 million renovation, which will be privately funded, includes $42 million in construction costs and $8 million in ongoing maintenance, SBMA Director Larry Feinberg said at a planning commission meeting. The remodel will include roofing and Read More →
By pacbiztimes / Friday, September 11th, 2015 / Columns, Law & Goverment / Comments Off on Bill would require equal pay for ‘substantially similar’ work
What was once a taboo question in the workplace may become a more explicit employee’s right. “How much does my co-worker make?” Even though workers are allowed to ask such a question under the protection of the National Labor Relations Act enacted in 1935, employees were often told — either overtly or implicitly — to Read More →
The announcement that Richard Rush was going to retire next spring after a decade at the helm of CSU Channel Islands took a number of folks by surprise. And as Business Times writer Tony Biasotti pointed out in his article on the resignation in our Aug. 28 edition, his departure leaves a vision for the Read More →
By Tony Biasotti / Friday, September 4th, 2015 / Columns, Latest news / Comments Off on UCSB No. 8 on ‘Best U.S. Colleges for Business Majors’ list
UC Santa Barbara has a familiarity with Top 10 lists that rivals David Letterman’s. U.S. News & World Report routinely ranks UCSB’s engineering and materials programs in the top 10 and this year ranked UCSB overall as No. 10 among public universities in the U.S. But the top-10 ranking that came out a few weeks Read More →
