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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, September 6th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Biofuel firm raises cool $3M
Camarillo-based Cool Planet Biofuels has raised another $3 million and leased 50,000 square feet of space to propel the development of a biofuel system it says could produce usable gasoline with a negative carbon footprint. Cool Planet plans to use its newly leased space to start building what it dubs its “biomass fractionators.” Where traditional Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, September 6th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Head of the class: Lynda.com expands its Carpinteria empire
With the purchase of almost 60,000 square feet of space in Carpinteria, Lynda.com has become one of the biggest technology firms headquartered on the South Coast. The Internet-based firm calls itself “education as a service.” Users pay about $25 a month to access an online library of almost 900 software courses. Originally oriented toward creative Read More →
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By Marlize van Romburgh / Monday, September 6th, 2010 / Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Top Stories / Comments Off on Cal Oaks deal puts small banks in play
The $17.3 million proposed merger of Thousand Oaks-based California Oaks State Bank and a larger San Fernando Valley bank may hint at what the community banking world will look like in the aftermath of financial overhaul. Many smaller banks, especially those with less than $500 million in assets, are looking to their neighbors or larger Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, September 6th, 2010 / Columns / Comments Off on Dirt is flying again as building picks up in the Tri-Counties
After a year or more of struggling to find work, contractors are ready to dig in their shovels and let the dirt fly as construction projects large and small break ground throughout the Tri-Counties. Several notable projects are in the construction pipeline, and builders I spoke with said they’re finally starting to see new business Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, September 6th, 2010 / Columns / Comments Off on Taking stock of PCBC, one share at a time
Generally speaking, it’s not a great idea for a journalist to own stock in a company he or she covers. In fact, it’s entirely unethical. But there is one exception. Back before the SEC’s Regulation FD, Yahoo Finance, the Internet and instantaneous disclosure of everything to everybody, it was an established practice for a Read More →
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By Staff Report / Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 / Latest news / Comments Off on RiverPark units sell for $81.5M
A 400-unit luxury apartment community in Oxnard’s RiverPark development has been purchased for $81.5 million by three L.A. area firms. Los Angeles-based Urban Partners LLC and Beverly Hills-based Capri Capital Partners and Kennedy Wilson purchased Serenade, a “resort-style community” within RiverPark, Oxnard’s proposed master-planned development. “Our focus has been on supply constrained, infill West Coast Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 / Uncategorized / Comments Off on First Solar buys Cuyama array site
The first proposed commercial-scale solar energy project in Santa Barbara County has changed hands. The Cuyama Solar Array Project is now being shepherded by First Solar, the same company proposing the much larger 550-megawatt Topaz Solar Farm on San Luis Obispo County’s Carrizo Plain. The Cuyama project was originally proposed in September 2009 by Edison Read More →
