Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, June 28th, 2010
Top Stories As multimillion-dollar foreclosures continue to hit Ventura County, commercial real estate insiders and observers are worried that the pain in the market is a long way from over. “We have a recovery in place, but it’s a very, very slow and weak recovery,” said Kirk Lesh, the senior real estate economist at California Lutheran University Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, June 28th, 2010
Top Stories A craft beer movement is brewing in the heart of Santa Barbara County’s wine country. By the end of summer, the Santa Ynez Valley — on the national radar as prime California wine country since the 2004 film “Sideways” — will have two companies brewing beer in hand-crafted batches. Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co. is retrofitting Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, June 21st, 2010
Opinion The city of Santa Barbara is the latest among the region’s cities to review and update its general plan. The next public meetings are on June 22 and June 23 at 630 Garden St. This is a chance to create a denser, more energy efficient and more prosperous city that better attends to the needs Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, June 21st, 2010
Opinion U.S. Rep. Lois Capps usually is content to capably represent her district and stick to her strengths on issues such as education and health care. But in her response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster on the Gulf Coast, she’s demonstrated real leadership — and proven to her constituents in the 23rd Congressional District that when Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, June 21st, 2010
Top Stories In one of the biggest stimulus grants to filter down to a tri-county business, Goleta-based Occam Networks will supply equipment for a $101 million project to bring broadband access to rural Western Kansas. Occam will provide networking equipment to Kansas-based Rural Telephone’s Nex-Tech, which will connect 23,000 households and businesses across 4,600 square miles. “In Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, June 21st, 2010
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If you bought anything made of plastic in the past 15 years, chances are it read “Made in China.” Central Coast Molding, a new venture launched by longtime Santa Maria manufacturer Prince Lionheart, is working to make more plastic products read “Made in the U.S.A.” Founded in 1973, Prince Lionheart has expanded to become a Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, June 21st, 2010
Top Stories Sharpen your pencils and get out your notebooks, Santa Barbara. Two different MBA programs aimed at working professionals will launch in the city over the next two years. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and CSU Channel Islands are both setting up part-time MBA programs in Santa Barbara, with Cal Poly’s launching first and CSUCI planning Read More →
