U.S. Airways to more than double SLO airport flights
The San Luis Obispo County Air Transportation Alliance announced Sept. 22 that U.S. Airways will soon more than double the service it provides at San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport. Alliance representatives, Economic Vitality Corporation President Mike Manchak, San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce President David Garth and airport manager Klaasje Nairne, met with top Read More →
Seeking office: Business owners tackling municipal politics
Small-business owners can do many things: create jobs, make payroll and turn a profit, or at least break even, in trying times. But can they do all that while juggling city politics? Two tri-county small-business owners – Don Gilman in Goleta and Sylvia Muñoz Schnopp in Port Hueneme – are betting they can. Both are Read More →
Josh Kane leaves the nest, tries spreading his own wings
Josh Kane, long known as an owner of Santa Barbara-based The Apartment Specialists [now called TAS Commercial], has flown the coop and built a new nest for himself in Ventura, leading a satellite office for national commercial brokerage Sperry Van Ness. Kane’s real estate career was hatched alongside TAS owner and founder Craig Lieberman. While Read More →
Reeling in the years: Northern Trust marks 20th on South Coast
In 1988, George H.W. Bush was elected president, a first-class postage stamp cost 22 cents and the Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series. That also was the year Northern Trust’s Santa Barbara office received its banking charter. The Chicago-based firm marked two decades in California with a Sept. 25 celebration at its office at Read More →
Wind firm projects 300 jobs in Ventura Co.
Jim Winsayer has ambitious plans: to create hundreds of jobs and begin building a factory to make wind energy turbines in the Tri-Counties, all within the next year. Winsayer heads Santa Barbara-based Continental Wind Power, which aims to make mid-sized wind turbines for large power consumers such as factories, farms, and county and city governments. Read More →
A return to
No two bailouts are exactly the same. And when it comes comparing the savings and loan era Resolution Trust Corp. to the $700 billion banking industry rescue now before Congress, there is one difference that really stands out. Back in the stone age of 1988, when we were merely trying to take care of regional Read More →
Forecast looks to the north
At the Santa Barbara County 2008 Real Estate and Economic Outlook, three area experts focused a substantial portion of their talks on the residential crisis concentrated in the north county. Experts said declining property values will take toll on both homeowners and county revenues, but buyers are better off, as plummeting prices have encouraged increased Read More →
