Area elections show voters back business
OpinionReading the minds of voters is always difficult. But in elections in Santa Barbara and Ventura there are stirrings of an electoral backlash against the extreme regulation of business in the Highway 101 corridor. By substantial margins, voters turned back height-limit measures in both Santa Barbara and Ventura. In Ventura they also turned back an Read More →
Cabrillo Business Park breaks ground, 12 years in the making
ColumnsIn 1997, Bill Clinton was president, Harry Potter was introduced to the world, and the development process began on an office project in the as-yet-unincorporated city of Goleta. Now, almost 12 years later, the Cabrillo Business Park has finally broken ground. It will eventually have 956,000 square feet of space on Hollister Avenue and 42 Read More →
Small business sees brighter future
OpinionNothing lasts forever. That goes for recessions as well as good times. The City Business Journals Network, an organization based in Charlotte, N.C. — of which the Business Times is an affiliated member — reports that small- and medium-sized businesses are more optimistic about the economy than at any time in the past year. In Read More →
A clear vision
UncategorizedClairvoyance means the ability to see things or events that remain invisible to our normal senses. So it’s fitting that when David Hardee, head of Santa Barbara-based renewable energy developer Clairvoyant Energy, looks at a shuttered Ford Motor Co. factory in Wixom, Mich., he sees the largest renewable energy plant in the United States and Read More →
Sieg Borck finds niche in aerospace
ColumnsSieg Borck is not a rocket scientist, but he certainly knows a lot of them. Products built by his Camarillo-based company, Hi-Temp Insulation, have helped carry astronauts into space and every day they keep thousands of airliners flying by dissipating the heat from their high-tech engines. As Stephen Nellis reports on this page, his 500-person Read More →
Small businesses get into acquisition mode
UncategorizedThe most obvious effect of a recession is that some businesses go away. Weak business plans, poor management or just being in the wrong industry at the wrong time can force companies under. But a recession also offers strong businesses large and small an opportunity to expand and to grab market share and offer customers Read More →
