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Uplift offering $9M in grants for predevelopment projects
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Read More →Dubroff: Bracing for the unexpected is the new theme for being prepared
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Read More →Santa Barbara News-Press to host auction sale
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Read More →Good works: Teacher’s Fund surpasses goal, raises over $100K
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Read More →Our view: SLO Airport’s investments is good for business travel
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Read More →Camarillo building bigger biotech cluster
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Read More →U.S. Bank CIO Freedman warns of inflationary pressures over coming months
If you want to navigate a turbulent time on geopolitics, keep your eye on inflation, trade and rising levels of U.S. government debt. That’s the view from U.S. Bank Chief Investment Officer Eric Freedman, who spoke with the Business Times during a swing through Santa Barbara on October 9. He called the inflationary impact of Read More →
Read More →Guest commentary: Early childhood investment helps the tri-county community thrive
By First 5 Ventura County, First 5 San Luis Obispo County & First 5 Santa Barbara County Our community’s well-being and economy improve when we invest in early childhood. Economists and brain researchers alike agree the prenatal period and first five years of a child’s life are critical for developing lifelong social, emotional, and learning Read More →
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CRE: SLO County winery finds its way back to local ownership
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Read More →CRE: Camarillo single-family homes up for sale
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Read More →Cottage Health to build 204 affordable homes for employees
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Read More →CRE: Camarillo construction firm acquired
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Read More →CRE: Limoneira nets $90M in housing project sale; Ventura civil engineering firm announces merger
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Read More →CRE: Large Simi Valley multifamily property sells for $95M; New store coming to Oxnard
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Read More →CRE: Goleta celebrates new homeless housing project
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Read More →Large multifamily property in Simi nets $95M in sale
The Landing at Arroyo, a 212-unit multifamily property in Simi Valley, was sold for $95 million on Aug. 29. The sale was announced by Simi Valley-based Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap. With the $95 million price tag, each unit sold and was worth $448,113. The property is located between California State Read More →
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Camarillo building bigger biotech cluster
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Read More →Agilent, Carpinteria thrive together building a strong area workforce
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Read More →Owning the spotlight: Snappt corners the AI fraud market for the real estate industry
Daniel Berlind, the founder and CEO of Ojai-based Snappt, is used to the grind. For six years, Berlind attempted to live out the dreams of millions of kids across the country and break into the show that is Major League Baseball. A byproduct of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Berlind was a solid pitcher, being Read More →
Read More →Saalex relocates HQ, will maintain Camarillo presence
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Read More →Santa Barbara company gets CHIPS Act funding
By Staff Report Santa Barbara-based Photothermal Spectroscopy Corporation was one of 17 small businesses across nine states to receive grant funding to explore research projects for developing a viable product or service for introduction in the commercial microelectronics marketplace under the Small Business Innovation Research Program. This is the first award for the CHIPS Research and Development Read More →
Read More →AeroVironment shares gain after stop work order lifts
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Read More →Amgen Biotech Experience celebrates milestone of serving 1 million students
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Read More →Agilent doubles down on Carpinteria presence
Agilent Technologies, a supplier of laboratory medical equipment to the biotechnology industry, is an extremely largecompany headquartered in Santa Clara — but to the people of Santa Barbara County, the company has long had a presence in Carpinteria. On Sept. 9, the company decided to double down on that presence announcing the opening of its Biopharma CDx Read More →
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UCSB’s Montell wins $5.5M from NIH
UC Santa Barbara Professor Denise Montell was awarded a Pioneer Award by the National Institutes of Health which comes with $5.5 million of funding over the next five years to further develop her work on immunotherapy, the treatment of disease by activating or suppressing the immune system. She said in a press release that she Read More →
Read More →Agilent, Carpinteria thrive together building a strong area workforce
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Read More →Sansum Clinic marks first year of Sutter Health partnership
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Read More →Cottage Health to build 204 affordable homes for employees
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Read More →Expond continues expansion across SB County
It has been about three years since Expond — short for Experience on Demand — first jumped onto the scene to fill a void left by the Covid-19 pandemic. But even now, as the pandemic becomes more a thing of the past, Expond continues expanding. “Coming out of Covid, everybody is looking to connect, and Read More →
Read More →A taste of community for seniors
Food not only tastes good and satisfies hunger, but it can be medicinal as well. So said the 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, which issued a call to action to end hunger and reduce the prevalence of chronic disease in the U.S. by 2030. Access to nutritious food is critical to health and resilience, according to Read More →
Read More →GCHP’s new CEO reveals plan to expand
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Read More →Santa Barbara nonprofit legends to step down
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Tri-county crop values continue slight ascension
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Read More →Houweling’s takes final step out of Ventura County
All of the remaining operations of Houweling’s Camarillo and its proprietor Casey Houwling will leave the Ventura County area before the end of the year as the company filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act with the state earlier this month. California’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, or WARN, requires companies to notify Read More →
Read More →Calavo completes sale of fresh cut business for $83M
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Read More →Fruit fly quarantines end in east Ventura County
The California Department of Food and Agriculture has declared an end to Mediterranean and Queensland fruit fly quarantines in Southern California, including parts of east Ventura County. The action comes following the eradication of the two invasive species, the department announced Aug. 6. In Ventura County, the nine-month-old quarantine had encompassed areas around Thousand Oaks, Read More →
Read More →Freska strikes deal to enter strawberry market
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Read More →Tri-county ag companies hit key milestones in Q2
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Read More →Homebuilder Lennar buys 554 residential homesites at Harvest at Limoneira
Homebuilder Lennar has bought 554 residential homesites at the Harvest at Limoneira master-planned community in Santa Paula, lemon grower Limoneira announced May 2. The transaction completes the sell-out of Phase 2 of the 1,500-unit development. “This is a big deal,” Limoneira CEO and President Harold Edwards told the Business Times. Limoneira did not disclose the value of the Read More →
Read More →Apeel CEO steps down, mission remains same
When James Rogers founded Goleta-based Apeel Sciences in 2012, he believed the hardest part of steering the company would be finding new ways to coat each fruit to help the quality last longer and help eliminate food waste. Turns out, the hardest part was finding a way to align the mission of the business while Read More →
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