SLO Spencer’s to close, be replaced by Grocery Outlet
Spencer’s Fresh Markets in the Laguna Village Shopping Center in San Luis Obispo is closing at the end of January and will be replaced by two new stores, according to the business and mall management.
In the Zone: Investors cash out on redevelopment projects
Three recent commercial property sales totaling $20 million cap several years of investment and a burst of development in Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone area.
An advocate for women in business: Attorney elected president of NAWBO California
An attorney with Santa Barbara-based law firm Buynak, Fauver, Archbald & Spray is the new president of the state-level chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners, a group that advocates for the more than 1.3 million female entrepreneurs in the Golden State.
Attorney found passion for environmental law in Antarctica
Kristin Larson took the long route to the law and back to the Tri-Counties. Larson, who specializes in combing over deals for potential environmental law issues, spent a decade in Antarctica as a research scientist before heading off to law school and a career in M&A law.
A speed bump on the way to creating a chamber-led vitality group
The most concentrated effort to date to create a Santa Barbara County economic vitality organization has hit a roadblock. And that roadblock appears to be the Board of Supervisors’ bitterly divided vote on the Santa Maria Energy project, where South County supervisors banded together to impose severe carbon emissions limits on an innovative onshore oil and gas development that had broad support in North County.
Lockheed relies on Trust: Motion-control firm lands defense contract
San Luis Obispo-based Trust Automation is rapidly expanding on the heels of an important defense contract.
