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By Stephen Nellis / 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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By Henry Dubroff / Friday, November 1st, 2013 / Columns, Opinion / Comments Off on New $20M software campus will put SLO at the cutting edge
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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By Marlize van Romburgh / 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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By Stephen Nellis / 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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By Henry Dubroff / 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.
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By Marlize van Romburgh / 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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By Tom Bronzini / Friday, October 18th, 2013 / Central Coast, Columns, Tri-County Economy, Wine & Viticulture / Comments Off on Paso looks to future after long-delayed step toward 11 AVAs
The TTB designates viticultural areas to help vintners better describe the origin of their wines and to inform consumers about wines they might purchase.