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Editorial Department


| Monday, August 16th, 2010

Arizona real estate firm makes one of year

Columns

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 →

| Thursday, August 12th, 2010

Spirit of Small Business awards 2010 slideshow

Small Business

| Monday, August 9th, 2010

Universities haul in grants, but cash still tight

Uncategorized

With its state funding level still up in the air, UC Santa Barbara broke its records for external research funding by bringing in $222 million this year, nearly double the outside funding it brought in a decade ago. But as much as that money helps, it often goes to specific programs. With the state budget Read More →

| Monday, August 9th, 2010

Cal Poly out, Pepperdine in: Santa Barbara will get first MBA classes in January

Uncategorized

With Cal Poly San Luis Obispo out of the running, Pepperdine University is set to win the race to open the first master’s in business administration program in the Santa Barbara area. Cal Poly announced June 30 that it was abandoning plans for an MBA program, at the request of the office of California State Read More →

| Monday, August 9th, 2010

A smarter brand: IQMS grows and profits in Paso Robles

Technology

Think of Paso Robles, and golden hills, grazing cattle and some of California’s best wines come to mind. Add to that list a global software firm. Twenty-one years ago, Randy and Nancy Flamm mortgaged their house to found IQMS, a company headquartered in Paso Robles that delivers software in eight languages to more than 400 Read More →

| Monday, August 9th, 2010

Caputo tops the list of winners at construction industry awards

Columns

Caputo Construction took home the top trophy at the Santa Barbara Contractors Association’s 2010 Builder of the Year Awards, presented at a July 30 dinner at Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort. The Subcontractor of the Year award went to Construction Plumbing and the Member’s Choice Award to D.D. Ford Construction. Hayward Lumber Co. won the Industry Read More →

| Monday, August 9th, 2010

Pressure on at Los Padres Bank

Top Stories

Capital is king — that’s the new mantra for community banks the country over. In the Tri-Counties, Solvang-based Los Padres Bank is on the brink of a possible takeover, as regulators placed it under a new order telling it to shore up its capital levels, be merged or acquired, or potentially face regulatory seizure. Other Read More →