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Editorial Department


| Monday, November 30th, 2009

San Luis Obispo jet center breaks ground

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A San Luis Obispo-based aviation company that provides private jet charters has broken ground on a $10  million corporate jet center near the regional airport. Aviation Consultants, a private company that runs the San Luis Jet Center, is building a massive new facility near the San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport. The nearly 80,000-square-foot project includes Read More →

| Monday, November 30th, 2009

Atascadero on the rise

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For years now, the city of Atascadero has retained a strong resemblance to the mudhole for which it was named. Dominated by construction zones, detours and piles of dirt, the core of the city is usually one storm away from being a muddy mess. But one development — the Colony Square Project — could provide Read More →

| Monday, November 30th, 2009

ValueClick moves could point to acquisition

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Despite turning in a $25 million profit last quarter, Westlake Village-based online marketing firm ValueClick disappointed Wall Street analysts with a gloomy revenue forecast for the fourth quarter. But the company has quietly signed more than 70,000 square feet of new lease agreements and stockpiled hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and untapped credit Read More →

| Monday, November 30th, 2009

REC Solar soaks up wine, stimulus dollars

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Wine profits and stimulus money are helping fuel expansion at one of the fastest-growing renewable energy companies on the Central Coast. San Luis Obispo-based REC Solar has expanded from 20 employees in 2005 to about 500 today and will install 1,700 solar systems this year. The company predicts that business in the agriculture sector — Read More →

| Monday, November 30th, 2009

Bailing out the party crowd

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Each year on Halloween, tens of thousands of partiers descend on Isla Vista near the University of California, Santa Barbara, and most stores within a 10-mile radius stock up on booze to meet the swell in demand. The results this year: 25,000 revelers, 311 arrests and 701 citations, according to the Santa Barbara County Sherriff’s Read More →

| Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Conjeo Valley

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She’s been at the job for less than a year, but former Domino’s pizza queen Jill Lederer’s kingdom may already be expanding. Lederer is the president of the Thousand Oaks-Westlake Village Regional Chamber of Commerce, an organization that may just add Agoura Hills to its title if city officials decide to swap chambers next month. Read More →

| Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Westlake

Features

Move Inc., the realty-related Westlake Village online firm that has only turned in a profit three times since 1993 and whose stock has lost more than 90 percent since its bubble-fueled peak, has moved. Sort of.   The company is the parent of Move.com and Realtor.com, Web sites aimed at selling homes and connecting Realtors Read More →