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B corp architect to talk business social responsibility in SLO

By   /  Monday, September 24th, 2012  /  Top Stories  /  Comments Off on B corp architect to talk business social responsibility in SLO

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In Ventura County, too much space, not enough office jobs

By   /  Friday, September 21st, 2012  /  Columns, Real Estate  /  Comments Off on In Ventura County, too much space, not enough office jobs

“We go around to offices and every eighth or 10th desk is empty.”

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Pierpont purchase caps hotel investment spree

By   /  Friday, September 21st, 2012  /  Real Estate, Top Stories, Tourism  /  Comments Off on Pierpont purchase caps hotel investment spree

A Los Angeles County-based hotel management firm is betting more than $30 million on the Ventura County hotel market, with its purchase of the Pierpont Inn & Spa last week bringing the company’s total number of properties in the region to six. Brighton Management, a real estate firm headquartered in Diamond Bar, purchased the historic Read More →

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Westlake film makers bank on fraternity humor site

By   /  Friday, September 21st, 2012  /  Banking & Finance, Latest news, Small Business, Technology  /  Comments Off on Westlake film makers bank on fraternity humor site

Word, brah. A pair of Westlake Village film industry veterans are out to raise $3.5 million to make a motion picture based on Total Frat Move, a wildly popular website that chronicles, sometimes crassly but always humorously, Greek life on campus from the male viewpoint. The brand’s ultimate owners hope it will ultimately become a Read More →

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These three middle-class firms are fighting their way to the top

By   /  Friday, September 21st, 2012  /  Columns, Op/Eds, Opinion  /  Comments Off on These three middle-class firms are fighting their way to the top

This is turning out to be a tough time for some of the region’s biggest names in fashion, fast food and financial services.

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Santa Barbara’s Urban Wine Trail: too big to fail to organize

By   /  Friday, September 21st, 2012  /  Columns, Wine & Viticulture  /  Comments Off on Santa Barbara’s Urban Wine Trail: too big to fail to organize

A look at the Santa Barbara Urban Wine Trail’s latest map of 17 locations where you can sample wines from the county’s vineyards gives a hint of why the group decided this year to formally organize as a 501(c)(6) mutually beneficial nonprofit. “It got to a point where communication wasn’t working out as well and Read More →

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Op/ed: Let’s look at the world as something other than scorched earth

By   /  Friday, September 21st, 2012  /  Op/Eds, Opinion  /  1 Comment

By Scott Harris on September 21, 2012 My wife and I recently spent a very enjoyable weekend in a small resort town in California. The town was beautiful, the people were great and the scenery was fantastic. As we drove in, we fell in love with the mountainsides, the deep forests with huge old-growth trees Read More →