At home in California: Oxnard furniture chain is growing fast
Oxnard-based Urban Home has 200 employees and expects to outgrow its new headquarters again within a few years.
Op/ed: An open letter to Ventura County — True pension reform is long overdue
Ventura County is clearly an outlier in its pension system and taxpayers are bearing the burden.
Ventura County brokers hold out ’til 2013 for real recovery
Economists are predicting job growth in Ventura County will gain steam in 2012, but don’t look for that to leak over into the commercial real estate markets until 2013. That was the word from CBRE brokers at the 2012 Ventura County Real Estate & Economic Outlook on Feb. 3 at California Lutheran University. Tom Dwyer, Read More →
Ventura County created 4,603 private-sector jobs in 2011
After an unexpectedly slow recovery in 2011, economists are pinning their hopes on 2012. That was the word from Bill Watkins and Mark Schniepp, two tri-county-based economists who gave separate outlooks for the U.S. and Ventura County economies at a Feb. 3 event at California Lutheran University. “2011 really didn’t shape out to be the Read More →
Wells Fargo warns growers of globalization risks
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Suit targets tax bill: Owners say county overvalued property
The owners of 328 residential lots in Oxnard’s RiverPark development are suing the county of Ventura for a tax refund after the assessor’s office more than doubled the valuation used to calculate taxes on the property.
