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By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, May 18th, 2012 / Columns, Real Estate / Comments Off on Building on Buffet’s $2B Topaz Solar Farm heats up
First Solar and Warren Buffett’s MidAmerican Solar have started major construction on a 550-megawatt photovoltaic solar project on northern San Luis Obispo County’s Carrizo Plain. The $2 billion Topaz Solar Farms hopes to be the largest solar-electric plant in the world. The developers said the project will create about 400 construction jobs over the next Read More →
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By Dana Olsen / Friday, May 4th, 2012 / Central Coast, Real Estate, Top Stories, Tourism / Comments Off on Hampton Inn marks first new hotel in SLO since recession
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By Dana Olsen / Friday, April 6th, 2012 / Real Estate, Top Stories / Comments Off on $350M CMH project will meet deadline
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, March 30th, 2012 / Law & Goverment, Real Estate, Top Stories / Comments Off on Melchiori, UC lawyers clash over $6.5M project
Santa Barbara-based Melchiori Construction Co. and the University of California appear to be headed for a showdown over a project at UC Santa Barbara that was originally awarded at $6.5 million. The UC Regents Office says the Ocean Science Education Building at Lagoon and UCEN roads should have been completed by Aug. 15. The system’s Read More →
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By Dana Olsen / Sunday, March 18th, 2012 / Agribusiness, Latest news / Comments Off on County moves forward on $43M Moorpark desalinization plant
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By Dana Olsen / Friday, March 2nd, 2012 / Features, Real Estate, Tourism / Comments Off on With coming hotel boom, Goleta weighs raising bed tax
Bed taxes in Goleta may be jumping as early as next year if the City Council approves a proposed plan to help raise revenue for the 10-year-old town.
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By Dana Olsen / Friday, February 10th, 2012 / Real Estate, Top Stories, Tourism / 1 Comment
A year after 35 State Street Hotel Partners took over the long-dormant La Entrada project on the waterfront end of Santa Barbara’s State Street, plans to jolt the hotel back to life are right on schedule. The hotel partnership, led by Michael Rosenfeld of Los Angeles-based investment and development company Next Century Associates, bought the Read More →