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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, December 21st, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Runoff rules rile builders
New storm water rules taking shape in Ventura County have public and private builders concerned that costs for routine projects could go way up and that some developments — such as large factories or warehouses — wouldn’t be feasible at all. The big change in the rules is that builders will have to deal with Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, December 21st, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on A wind in Clipper
Carpinteria-based Clipper Windpower is not going anywhere. The wind turbine maker has expanded rapidly and created hundreds of high-paying engineering and finance jobs on the South Coast in recent years. But it’s struggled with losses despite explosive sales, and on Dec. 9, industrial giant United Technologies Corp. agreed to buy a 49.5 percent stake in Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, December 21st, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Select slashes debt with public option
In the region’s second major going-public transaction this year, Santa Barbara-based Select Staffing has agreed to a deal that would let it pay off $200 million in debt and become listed on a major stock exchange. With $1.4 billion in revenue in 2008, Select, a temporary staffing services firm, is the largest privately held company Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, December 21st, 2009 / Columns / Comments Off on Ventura real estate firm sets sights on the Lone Star State
For the first time in eight years, Dick Fausset’s Ventura real estate investment company is buying. Back in the 1990s, Fausset Neely Inc. went on an acquisition spree, buying up more than 2.86 million square feet of commercial property in California, Texas, Louisiana and Alabama. But in 2001, Fausset stopped buying and started selling. “In Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, December 21st, 2009 / Columns / Comments Off on Give small businesses a few tools
It’s bad enough that regulators have basically forced our community banks to redline small businesses and deprive them of capital at a time when it’s most needed. Now comes word that staff have been let go at Small Business Development Centers, which provide technical assistance to operating ventures in Ventura and Santa Barbara centers, which Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, December 21st, 2009 / Uncategorized / Comments Off on UCSB scientists create synthetic blood cells
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have created synthetic red blood cells that could be used to deliver drugs, research diseases and aid diagnoses. Synthetic particles can be used to carry drugs where they need to go for more precise targeting than pills or straight injections. They’re already on the market to deliver Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, December 21st, 2009 / Uncategorized / Comments Off on Chambers warn businesses to be skeptical of map ads
Business owners may be looking for a fresh start for the New Year, but chamber of commerce members might want to think twice before signing up for special advertising promotions. President and Chief Executive Officer Joanne Main said members of her chamber are being targeted by an Iowa-based company called Premier Map Co. And the Read More →
