Auto exports drive record year at Port of Hueneme
The Port of Hueneme in Ventura County posted its best-ever year for international trade and its second-highest year on record for domestic and global trade combined, it said Sept. 22. Auto exports, up 30 percent year-over-year, led the surge during the port’s 2013-14 fiscal year. Total tonnage moving through the port during the year was Read More →
Chumash award $112M hotel contract, eye October groundbreaking
Tutor Perini Corp. has been selected to head up construction of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians’ controversial hotel expansion project. The building contract for the property at 3400 E. Highway 246 in Santa Ynez is valued at $112 million, Sylmar-based Tutor Perini said in a statement. It’s the first time a dollar Read More →
Watkins: California jobs boom not what it seems
The Golden State has been outpacing the U.S. in job creation over the last three years, but all is not well. Skyrocketing housing costs mean that with a few exceptions clustered around the tech boom, California’s coastal counties are retirement havens, not entrepreneurship hubs. That’s the view from Bill Watkins, director of the California Economic Read More →
T.O. Boulevard revamp hinges on key project
Champions of the Thousand Oaks Boulevard Specific Plan are feverishly optimistic in their expectations for the future of the three-mile-long, mostly commercial corridor. But some remaining constraints are putting all eyes on the fate of one particular project — developer Rick Principe’s 53-unit mixed-use concept at 1850 Thousand Oaks Blvd.
Impact Radius offers alternative to advertising network model
Santa Barbara-based marketing technology firm Impact Radius says it is growing fast and signing up marquee customers.
Nurturing the sole: Heeluxe leverages deals with Deckers, New Balance
Four years after launching a shoe insert that failed to bring homerun sales, Geoffrey Gray now has a thriving business in Heeluxe, a Goleta-based research lab for developing high performance footwear for the likes of New Balance, Mizuno and Deckers Brands, the parent company of Teva sandals.
