By Editorial Board / Friday, August 12th, 2011 / Editorials, Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: Newhall Ranch will test housing market
In the borderland between Los Angeles and Ventura Counties along the Santa Clara River Valley, a regulatory barrier to a major development has been removed.
New stormwater regulations for Ventura County are scheduled to take effect this fall, marking the final test of whether rules that building advocates call the strictest in Southern California will grind to a halt commercial and industrial development.
By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, January 21st, 2011 / Columns, Real Estate / Comments Off on Ventura real estate investor is thinking big in Texas market
Dick Fausset is partying in Texas like it’s 1999. The California real estate investor and his Ventura-based firm, Fausset Neely, recently sold a 104,500-square-foot shopping center in Amarillo, Texas, for $4.4 million — twice as much as they paid for the property in 1998. The sale follows a year of scooping up more than 300,000 Read More →
The arrival of COLAB, the Coalition of Labor, Agriculture and Business, in Ventura County gives property-rights advocates another tool to protect what has become an endangered liberty in the Tri-Counties.
By Marlize van Romburgh / Monday, December 27th, 2010 / Columns, Top Stories / Comments Off on The verdict on courthouse project: Construction boom across region
Santa Barbara’s proposed $152 million criminal courthouse project is expected to create 3,500 direct and indirect jobs in the area over a five-year period, representing a major economic boost to the region’s sagging construction industry. Local builders say the project will likely be handed to a larger, out-of-town general contractor who can handle the scope Read More →
