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By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, October 7th, 2011 / Columns, Restaurants / Comments Off on Santa Barbara restaurateurs profiled in book talk about avoiding kitchen nightmares
Two of the partners behind Santa Barbara’s Arch Rock Fish restaurant share their recipes for success in a new book about culinary entrepreneurs.
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By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, October 7th, 2011 / Top Stories, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Chevron, SLO weigh development pact
Chevron has big plans for remediation and commercial development of a 332-acre plot along the Tank Farm Road corridor of San Luis Obispo. But the petroleum giant says those plans don’t pencil out unless the city agrees to a development agreement that would have taxpayers reimbursing $11.1 million of the costs. San Luis Obispo city officials Read More →
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By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, September 30th, 2011 / Latest news, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Forecast: Crummy, with a slight chance of worse
The professional services and hospitality industries are leading the South Coast’s private-sector job creation, with each adding about 1,000 jobs since the recession ended.
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By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, September 30th, 2011 / Columns, Real Estate / Comments Off on Deardorff Family Farms builds $10M green building in Oxnard
Deardorff Family Farms in Oxnard is spending more than $10 million on a new 115,000-square-foot facility designed to become green-building certified.
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By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, September 30th, 2011 / Features, Small Business, Technology / Comments Off on Scan this, eat that: Honest Label launches nutrition app
Honest Label Foods launched a smart phone app earlier this year that helps users make sense of the nutrition labels on the back of grocery store foods.
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By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, September 23rd, 2011 / Columns, Real Estate / Comments Off on Large projects bring commercial, residential development to SLO
San Luis Obispo’s largest residential project in years broke ground Sept. 21, and a major downtown mixed-use project appears to be moving toward final approval.
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By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, September 23rd, 2011 / Features, Small Business / Comments Off on Healthy and growing: B.R.A.T drink gears up for national expansion
B.R.A.T, a “feel better” drink based in San Luis Obispo, is seeing sales and distribution grow.
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