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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, August 16th, 2010 / Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: Signs of a gradual comeback in tourism
It’s hard to overstate the powerful influence that tourism exerts over the region’s economy. In San Luis Obispo County, there really isn’t much else, outside of government, universities and agriculture. In Santa Barbara County, the post-“Sideways” wine tourism boom has added a new dimension to what was already a national and global brand as well Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, August 16th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on ValueClick makes its move
With its $42 million acquisition of the financial website Investopedia and a new plan to put its data to work for big digital ad campaigns, Westlake Village-based ValueClick is aiming to give its online display advertising business a big boost. It’s an essential strategy, analysts say, because ValueClick faces aggressive competition in display ads from Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, August 16th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Dynacorn muscles in: Classic car firm grows in Ventura County
Oxnard-based Dynacorn International is revving up for a move into bigger environs. For the past 26 years, the company has supplied parts and even whole body shells for classic muscle cars, the big-block, deep-throated monsters that came out in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Later this year, Dynacorn will move from its 60,000-square-foot space Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, August 16th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Pay disupte breaks out at wind firm
A pay dispute has broken out between Continental Wind Power and two of its former engineering consultants, as timelines for the Carpinteria company’s plans to build wind turbines in Santa Paula stretch into the future. In a lawsuit filed in Santa Barbara County Superior Court, William Miller and Rain Byars say they were not paid Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, August 16th, 2010 / Columns / Comments Off on Arizona real estate firm makes one of year
Healthcare Trust of America, an Arizona-based real estate investment firm, purchased a 45,000-square-foot medical office building on the Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center campus for $10.9 million. HTA bought the San Luis Obispo property directly from the developer, Chicago-based Healthcare Development Partners, on Aug. 5, marking one of the largest SLO commercial property sales this Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, August 16th, 2010 / Columns / Comments Off on Bunnin grabs a car deal on South Coast
A diminutive car with just four seats, four cylinders and a price tag under $20,000 is not the sort of vehicle likely to grace one of Leo Bunnin’s Ventura County GMC, Cadillac or Buick showrooms. But it just might be the car that turns Bunnin’s impending purchase of a Santa Barbara County auto store into Read More →
