Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, September 20th, 2010
Top Stories UC Santa Barbara, a billion-dollar-plus driver for the South Coast economy, is stepping closer to approval of a plan to make it an even bigger force in the region. As the Business Times went to press, the University of California Board of Regents was set to vote on whether to approve UCSB’s long-range development plan. Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, September 20th, 2010
Opinion Lieutenant governor is supposed to be a largely ceremonial position, with a lot of glad-handing and good will at the top of the agenda. But with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on a trip to Asia, Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado got a chance to do something folks in his position rarely get to do — act like Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, September 20th, 2010
Top Stories In the space of a month, Power-One has opened two factories in North America and become the second-largest maker of inverters for solar panels in the world. The Camarillo firm opened factories in Ontario, Canada, and Phoenix. Canadian production has already started, and production lines in Arizona are set to fire up in October, creating Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, September 20th, 2010
Opinion For more than a year there’s been a looming gap in the leadership structure of the region’s technology sector. The departure of Matt Tirrell from UC Santa Barbara, after a decade of exemplary performance as dean at the UCSB College of Engineering, created a void that’s yet to be filled. Tirrell’s term was extraordinary for Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, September 13th, 2010
Top Stories Oxnard’s efforts to rebrand itself as an “international city” may suffer as county and federal agents investigate the possible misappropriation of public money and conflicts of interest among city officials. But the ordeal should be “a footnote in history” by the time serious marketing of the new image begins several years from now, business leaders Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, September 13th, 2010
Columns It’s not just prominent hotelier John King who’s struggling in San Luis Obispo County. Smaller developers and real estate investors are having a hard time, too. San Luis Obispo-based Barkwood Development filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in late July, listing $2.4 million in liabilities and $7.5 million in assets. In an unrelated case filed Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, September 13th, 2010
Top Stories When the Seranade apartment complex in Oxnard’s RiverPark development was sold Sept. 2 for $81.5 million, it was the biggest apartment sale in Ventura County in years. It was also a bet by its new owners that Oxnard has enough white-collar workers to support the 400-unit luxury complex. Three Los Angeles-area firms — Urban Partners, Read More →
