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By Staff Report / Monday, April 5th, 2010 / Latest news / Comments Off on Santa Barbara Borders building sold for $10M
The $10 million sale of 900 State St. in Santa Barbara makes for the largest commercial real estate deal in the city in more than two years and signals new life in the city’s downtown. The 38,000-square-foot retail space where Borders bookstore is currently housed was sold on April 5 to an affiliate of SIMA Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, April 5th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Donation clouds Blue Shield complaint
Thanks to a law firm’s $10,000 contribution to an assemblymember’s campaign for Insurance Commissioner, a Santa Barbara agent’s crusade to get small-business coverage looks like one more piece of political theater in a tough election year. On March 23, Brent Anderson filed a complaint with the California Department of Insurance against Blue Shield of California Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, April 5th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on South Coast Business & Technology Awards honor five
An international medical nonprofit, the chairman of Oracle Corp. and a top female software entrepreneur will be honored at the region’s biggest business and technology fundraiser. The South Coast Business & Technology Awards Dinner in Santa Barbara is in its 16th year. Regularly drawing more than 600 guests and 70 corporate sponsors to Fess Parker’s Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, April 5th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Health care
Tri-county hospitals are ready to put the recession behind them as they look toward the brave new world of health care reform. For the most part, reform means area hospitals will receive less for reimbursements but will have fewer uninsured patients coming through the system. “The net effect will be the reduction in charity care,” Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, April 5th, 2010 / Columns / Comments Off on Rice Mercado Depot project leads Santa Maria
In keeping with its push towards mixed-use, Santa Maria has plans in the works for a six-acre commercial, residential and manufacturing site at the northwest corner of Depot Street and Morrison Avenue. Developers say the ambitious Rice Depot Mercado project will be a mixed-use hub, drawing pedestrian residential traffic from the densely populated area around Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, April 5th, 2010 / Columns / Comments Off on Recovery may mean the old is new again
Meet the new economy. Same as the old economy. It may just be that the rest of the country looks a lot more like the Tri-Counties as we bid farewell to the Great Recession. By that I mean slow growth, more government, a wider gap between haves and have-nots and a financial system that Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, April 5th, 2010 / Uncategorized / Comments Off on A long-running line
Few businesses are more intertwined with the history of their communities than San Luis Obispo insurance agency Morris & Garritano. Founded in 1885 on Higuera Street, the agency has changed names over the decades but has been in business in San Luis Obispo for 125 years. With about 75 employees today, the company has a Read More →
