Asphalt plant gets go ahead
Ventura County has approved plans for an asphalt plant west of Santa Paula, which removes the need for a plant within city limits. Granite Construction Co. plans to build an asphalt plant on a 35-acre property on Mission Rock Road, near the Briggs Road exit on Highway 126, according to a letter issued July 24 Read More →
Quick diagnosis delivery – Carpinteria firm
A cancer patient lies on the operating table having a tumor removed. The surgical team wants to know whether they’ve removed all the offending tissue, but only a lab test can tell. Those tests, read by a pathologist, involve what’s known as immunohistochemistry, or IHC, and usually take at least an hour and half to Read More →
Emergencies underscore need for peaker plant
The California Coastal Commission hearing for Southern California Edison Co.’s Oxnard peaker power plant project is planned for Aug. 6. A peaker kicks in with extra electricity when demand exceeds the supply and the commission should give serious consideration to approving this needed project. In an area with relatively slow and steady economic growth, this Read More →
Bio-tech turnaround pays dividend for area economy
During the past year, Ventura County, the Conejo Valley and the economic health of the entire region has been closely tied to the fate of two troubled companies – Countrywide Financial Corp. and Amgen. After 12 months of financial torture, the future of these two companies suddenly is getting a lot clearer. After a near Read More →
South Coast welcomes new brokerage, old names
Two of the biggest players in the South Coast commercial real estate industry have switched teams. Stephen Leider and Clarice Cornell Clarke, now shareholders of Lee & Associates commercial real estate, will launch a Santa Barbara office for the national real estate brokerage on Aug. 1. Leider was a founding partner of Leider Hayes Commercial Read More →
Lawsuits may shed light on Klein crash
A pair of lawsuits filed against the late Michael Klein’s estate and its posthumous trust could do more than gain as much as $525 million for death and injuries suffered when a small plane he had hired crashed into a mountain in Panama just before Christmas. It also might provide testimony that sheds light on Read More →
CPA firms launch
Following a reorganization of one of the region’s top 10 accounting firms, Barbich Longcrier Hooper & King no longer exists on the Central Coast. In its place, two new firms have opened in San Luis Obispo, both run by former partners of BLH&K. Eric Schwefler and Gary Jensen have opened Caliber Accounting Group with Read More →
