Middle-class retailers are being squeezed out of the shopping scene
A pre-holiday walk up and down State Street in Santa Barbara gives a pretty good cross section of what’s happening in retail stores across the nation.
With new owners, Chapala One and La Entrada look to finish line
Rosenfeld’s $30 million bet on downtown Santa Barbara seems to count on three things.
Ventura County hotel efforts appear to be paying big dividends
Hotels in the western part of Ventura County are on track to have one of their best occupancy years ever.
Santa Barbara food market and condo project is ripening
The Alma del Pueblo condo and food market project on Victoria and Chapala streets in downtown Santa Barbara is moving closer to completion.
Buyers bag big grocery store deals
The long-vacant former Home Depot site in Oxnard has been sold for $7.1 million.
Bank profits pay Community Dividends as $1M event salutes 10 years
More than a decade ago, banker and developer Michael Towbes came up with the idea of turning Montecito Bank & Trust into an S Corporation.
Amgen case before SCOTUS could stymie new class-action suits
On Nov. 5, Thousand Oaks-based Amgen argued a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that could make it much harder for shareholders to form a class when suing a company for making misleading statements that distort its stock price. The outcome, which is likely to be decided by the politics of the individual justices, could Read More →
