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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, March 8th, 2010 / Opinion / Comments Off on I.V. 2.0 sets example for redevelopment
Long lampooned for being nothing more than an appendage to the University of California, Santa Barbara, the community of Isla Vista is finally getting a major architectural makeover. For years, Isla Vista has been the butt of jokes about sofa burnings and the scene of not-so-funny Halloween mayhem. But powerful forces are reshaping the community Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, March 8th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on The Paredon paradox
When the profits and politics of oil collide in a small town, it puts business owners in a sticky spot. In June, the voters of Carpinteria, a seaside town of 14,200, will decide whether to allow Denver-based Venoco to drill an offshore oil lease from a 175-foot onshore rig concealed in a lighthouse façade. After Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, March 8th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on CKE to go private, stay local
Though it’s going private, CKE Restaurants is hinting that it plans to stay on the South Coast. Carpinteria-based CKE, the parent company of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s fast-food chains, agreed on Feb. 26 to a buyout by a Boston-based private equity firm for $928 million in cash and the assumption of $309 million in net Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, March 8th, 2010 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Partners part ways at Moorpark studio
Moorpark’s proposed $125 million soundstage is still in development, but its major roles are being recast. Commonwealth Studios, set to be the largest independent soundstage in the country, is shuffling some of its key players. City officials said the development team seems to have parted ways in recent weeks, but the project itself is still Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, March 1st, 2010 / Uncategorized / Comments Off on Chamber changes
The Thousand Oaks-Westlake Village Regional Chamber of Commerce announced that it changed its name Greater Conejo Valley Chamber of Commerce. The change follows the chamber’s acquisition of Agoura Hills into its membership. The chamber said its executive committee and board of directors recently voted unanimously to change the name, after the general membership was asked Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, March 1st, 2010 / Small Business / Comments Off on When thinking small pays off
Even with the real estate market in the slumps, one small Santa Barbara construction company is holding its own by focusing on small projects larger firms won’t touch. Projects by Giffin & Crane is a women-run construction business and a division of Giffin & Crane General Contractors, a firm locally renowned for building many of Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, March 1st, 2010 / Columns / Comments Off on Recession lessons will guide future
You can tell a lot about what’s happening in the economy by taking a walk around the block. Or, in my case, across the alley. That’s because, as I am sad to report, the economy has taken its toll on Tuttini’s, Susan and Winston Sullivan’s popular bakery and café located in the building just a Read More →
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