Former ReMax office building in Ventura attracts new tenants
The prominent Ventura office building at 1500 Palma Drive is getting a new lease on life.
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Read More →Dreaming big: Arroyo Grande mattress retailer plots national expansion
When partners Jimi Breazeale and Hector Amaya opened Get-A-Mattress in Arroyo Grande in 2009, they wanted to transform the mattress-buying experience from what Breazeale calls “dirty window” into a showroom atmosphere. After all, with the average mattress costing around $2,000, it’s a considerable consumer purchase.
Read More →MB&T chief highlights role of community banks
Locally based banks that take deposits from and make loans to the community form the lifeblood of many regional economies, and yet these institutions have only recently secured a voice in the national debate on financial policy. That was the view from Janet Garufis, CEO and president of Santa Barbara-based Montecito Bank & Trust, in Read More →
Read More →Building a legacy: Boys & Girls Clubs honor Cal Johnston
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Conejo Valley will honor Cal Johnston, an orphan turned successful Southern California commercial real estate developer, with a building dedication later this month that recognizes his vision in setting up after-school programs for at-risk kids. Johnston, chairman and founder of The Johnston Group in Agoura Hills, started the Read More →
Read More →Small-business groups can match banks, borrowers
Business is as much about who you know as what you know.
Long-time art gallery owner Sylvia White came to realize that as she struggled to get financing to purchase a building in downtown Ventura. She had purchased the gallery space with owner financing several years earlier. But now the five-year period on that high-interest loan was coming up, and White needed a bank to take over. She was turned down by lenders again and again.
Read More →Pacifica Commercial uncorks new wine properties division
Pacifica Commercial Realty has launched a new winery division and website aimed at being a one-stop platform for multimillion-dollar winery and vineyard transactions in the region.
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