NAI report: Ventura County has seen the worst of CRE woes
ColumnsVentura County’s office market is still reeling from the Countrywide collapse, according to a recently released NAI report. Office vacancy in the county is still up, and the NAI market report puts the number around 20 percent and notes that net absorption was negative through the third quarter of 2009. “Office space is tough Read More →
Westmont neglected as donor defaults on $75M
OpinionBy any account, $75 million is a lot of money. If you are a small, Christian college laboring with recovery from a major fire and an ambitious expansion plan, it’s an enormous amount of money. Which is why the report in this issue of the Business Times that Westmont College’s mystery donor won’t be able Read More →
Green Coast summit puts iZone on map
ColumnsOn Jan. 21, some 80 business, community and educational leaders met to kick off a project that has evolved from a column in this newspaper into something called the Green Coast Innovation Zone. It was a rare moment when the leadership of all three counties — Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo — were Read More →
SB County pushes for green energy district
UncategorizedSanta Barbara County is taking the first steps toward developing a new kind of special district that would allow property owners to finance insulation, solar and other energy efficiency projects that would be paid for on their property tax bills. After a feasibility study was completed in November and submitted to the Board of Supervisors, Read More →
Rocking the game world
UncategorizedWarren Dennis isn’t the first person you’d expect to invent a new way to control today’s most popular video games. A onetime race-car mechanic who made his name in the ceiling fan business in the ’70s and ’80s, Dennis calls himself “too old to be a gamer.” But he’s an inventor at heart, and his Read More →
