Commercial foreclosures pile up in Ventura County
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 28th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Commercial foreclosures pile up in Ventura County
As multimillion-dollar foreclosures continue to hit Ventura County, commercial real estate insiders and observers are worried that the pain in the market is a long way from over. “We have a recovery in place, but it’s a very, very slow and weak recovery,” said Kirk Lesh, the senior real estate economist at California Lutheran University Read More →
Summer ales: Breweries in season in Santa Ynez Valley
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 28th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Summer ales: Breweries in season in Santa Ynez Valley
A craft beer movement is brewing in the heart of Santa Barbara County’s wine country. By the end of summer, the Santa Ynez Valley — on the national radar as prime California wine country since the 2004 film “Sideways” — will have two companies brewing beer in hand-crafted batches. Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co. is retrofitting Read More →
Robert Caron, investor and attorney, dies at 52
By Tony Biasotti / Friday, June 25th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Robert Caron, investor and attorney, dies at 52
Robert Troy “Bobby” Caron, a Camarillo lawyer and investor who was awaiting trial on fraud charges, died June 17 after fighting brain cancer for seven years. He was 52. At various times in his career, Caron was a personal injury lawyer, a sports agent, a lawyer and adviser to boxer Fernando Vargas, a strawberry investor Read More →
Broadband stimulus cash lands at Occam
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 21st, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Broadband stimulus cash lands at Occam
In one of the biggest stimulus grants to filter down to a tri-county business, Goleta-based Occam Networks will supply equipment for a $101 million project to bring broadband access to rural Western Kansas. Occam will provide networking equipment to Kansas-based Rural Telephone’s Nex-Tech, which will connect 23,000 households and businesses across 4,600 square miles. “In Read More →
Cal Poly set to launch MBA program; CSUCI to follow
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 21st, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Cal Poly set to launch MBA program; CSUCI to follow
Sharpen your pencils and get out your notebooks, Santa Barbara. Two different MBA programs aimed at working professionals will launch in the city over the next two years. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and CSU Channel Islands are both setting up part-time MBA programs in Santa Barbara, with Cal Poly’s launching first and CSUCI planning Read More →
Making the grade: Conejo Valley attracts top corporate talent
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 21st, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Making the grade: Conejo Valley attracts top corporate talent
Over the past two decades, the Conejo Valley has emerged from a collection of sleepy farm towns to a home for major companies. Good schools and proximity to Los Angeles have a lot to do with the attractiveness of the area to companies such as Dole Food Co., Teledyne Technologies, Amgen and J.D. Power & Read More →
Cambria hotel in Chapter 11
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, June 14th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Cambria hotel in Chapter 11
A new luxury hotel in the seaside town of Cambria has found just how tough it can be to get off the ground. The development company for the new El Colibri hotel and spa has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, listing $9.5 million in liabilities, and has put the hotel up for sale seven months Read More →
