Downtown’s starring role: Atascadero will get new movie theater, retail center
Atascadero’s small-town days may be numbered. The city of 28,000 people has several large developments in the pipeline, including its $13 million Colony Square project, which would bring 14,000 square feet of retail space and 10 movie screens to the currently theater-less city. Plans for a 130,000-square-foot Wal-Mart are about halfway through the environmental review Read More →
Betting on a windfall: A new kind of project for Paso Robles
Windfall Farms may one day be to Paso Robles what Montecito is to Santa Barbara — an enclave for millionaire retirees and the weekend wealthy. But the San Luis Obispo County version has a few extra country charms thrown in, like alfalfa fields, grazing cattle, wine grapes and Kentucky-style horse facilities. The 724-acre Windfall Farms Read More →
Guitar man: High-end instruments, made in Oxnard
The first things you notice when you meet Jean Larrivée, the founder of high-end guitar maker Jean Larrivée Guitars, aren’t the test instruments leaning against the wall of his office, the tool chest in the corner or the small bottles of wood stain that dot the windowsill. It’s the giant red banners bearing Cyrillic script, Read More →
A weekend to Savor: Festival puts spotlight on SLO food, wine
The inaugural Savor the Central Coast promises to bring more than 8,000 food fanatics to San Luis Obispo County, filling up hotel rooms, putting the area on the map as a major culinary destination and extending the county’s tourist season. The four-day food and wine festival is hosted by Sunset Magazine and the San Luis Read More →
All grown up: These SLO entrepreneurs have come a long way
San Luis Obispo’s startups are growing up fast. Thirteen years ago, two San Luis Obispo high school students started their own company because they couldn’t find part-time jobs to fit their busy student-athlete schedules. That business, Meathead Movers, has since grown into a flourishing moving and storage empire that helps some 180 college students put Read More →
Teledyne on another buying spree
Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies is back in acquisition mode. This month, the defense conglomerate made up of dozens of companies has bought two more: Optimum Optical Systems, a Camarillo firm that will complement Teledyne’s infrared imaging systems for unmammned aerial vehicles; and Intelek, a United Kingdom mini-conglomerate that makes electronic systems for satellite communications. Teledyne Read More →
A good sign: C&D Zodiac thriving in Santa Maria
If you’ve ever flown in a Boeing jet and adjusted the air nozzle above your head or rang for a flight attendant, there’s a good chance you’ve touched a product made by C&D Zodiac in Santa Maria. C&D’s factory in Santa Maria employs 475 and is one of 15 facilities owned by the company, a Read More →
