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Sonos sets tone for tech firms as it snaps up downtown space

By   /  Friday, November 8th, 2013  /  Columns, Real Estate, Technology  /  Comments Off on Sonos sets tone for tech firms as it snaps up downtown space

Music equipment maker Sonos markets some of the highest-quality audio equipment around, but the company is being very quiet as it snaps up thousands of square feet of space in downtown Santa Barbara. According to the brokers at Radius Group’s economic and commercial real estate forecast on Oct. 31, Sonos has now leased about 100,000 square feet of new space over the last year, and is looking for more.

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Appellate attorneys lend eye for legal issues to trial lawyers

By   /  Friday, November 8th, 2013  /  Columns, Law & Goverment, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Appellate attorneys lend eye for legal issues to trial lawyers

Let’s face it: Sometimes you lose. And sometimes, it’s really not your fault. Judges and juries are only human and can misapply the law to the facts. That’s where appellate attorneys come in. The region has a number of bar-certified appellate law specialists who work closely with trial attorneys on whether and how an appeal can be pursued.

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New $20M software campus will put SLO at the cutting edge

By   /  Friday, November 1st, 2013  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on New $20M software campus will put SLO at the cutting edge

Henry Dubroff

At precisely 2:25 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, the future of San Luis Obispo county as an emerging hub for technology companies suddenly got a lot brighter.

That’s the moment when Mindbody CEO Rick Stollmeyer and a half-dozen local dignitaries dug the first shovelful of dirt for the software and services company’s new $20 million campus.

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Montecito Medical’s $54M buy raises stake for health properties

By   /  Friday, November 1st, 2013  /  Columns, Real Estate  /  Comments Off on Montecito Medical’s $54M buy raises stake for health properties

Montecito Medical Acquisition Co., a Santa Barbara-based real estate investment firm, has made one of its largest purchases to date, paying $54.6 million for the UCLA Outpatient Surgery and Oncology Center in Santa Monica. The firm now has about $170 million in assets, even after divesting some of the properties it purchased with its first fund between 2006 and 2008.

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With merger and TechPitch win, SLO’s startups are on the fast track

By   /  Friday, November 1st, 2013  /  Central Coast, Columns, Small Business, Technology  /  Comments Off on With merger and TechPitch win, SLO’s startups are on the fast track

In the past couple of weeks, Alex Minicucci has successfully merged his fast-growing mobile marketing company with a publicly traded firm out of Iowa. Meanwhile, an entrepreneurial emergency room doctor from Nipomo came up a with a brilliantly simple solution for holding an iPad one handed that swept the most comprehensive tech pitch night on the Central Coast to date.

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Santa Barbara tourist hostel sells as developers eye lower State St.

By   /  Friday, October 25th, 2013  /  Columns, Real Estate, South Coast, Tourism  /  Comments Off on Santa Barbara tourist hostel sells as developers eye lower State St.

“We were drawn [to the property] by the proximity to the Amtrak station and lower State Street, but really the hostel is in its own class for budget-savvy kinds of travelers and international students,” said Jared Filippone, a vice president with Capitoline Properties, which recently purchased the hostel.

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Timing is everything with $56M Central Coast banking merger

By   /  Friday, October 25th, 2013  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Timing is everything with $56M Central Coast banking merger

Regulators will have one less bank to regulate and the combined bank will get benefits from economies of scale.