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By Alex Kacik / Friday, September 11th, 2015 / Columns, Real Estate / Comments Off on Santa Barbara Museum of Art plans $50M renovation project
The proposed overhaul of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art is going through the final stages of approval. The $50 million renovation, which will be privately funded, includes $42 million in construction costs and $8 million in ongoing maintenance, SBMA Director Larry Feinberg said at a planning commission meeting. The remodel will include roofing and Read More →
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By Alex Kacik / Friday, September 11th, 2015 / Columns, Law / Comments Off on Bill would require equal pay for ‘substantially similar’ work
What was once a taboo question in the workplace may become a more explicit employee’s right. “How much does my co-worker make?” Even though workers are allowed to ask such a question under the protection of the National Labor Relations Act enacted in 1935, employees were often told — either overtly or implicitly — to Read More →
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By Henry Dubroff / Friday, September 4th, 2015 / Columns, Opinion, West Ventura County / Comments Off on Dubroff: West Ventura County needs to attract more capital
The announcement that Richard Rush was going to retire next spring after a decade at the helm of CSU Channel Islands took a number of folks by surprise. And as Business Times writer Tony Biasotti pointed out in his article on the resignation in our Aug. 28 edition, his departure leaves a vision for the Read More →
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By Tony Biasotti / Friday, September 4th, 2015 / Columns, Latest news / Comments Off on UCSB No. 8 on ‘Best U.S. Colleges for Business Majors’ list
UC Santa Barbara has a familiarity with Top 10 lists that rivals David Letterman’s. U.S. News & World Report routinely ranks UCSB’s engineering and materials programs in the top 10 and this year ranked UCSB overall as No. 10 among public universities in the U.S. But the top-10 ranking that came out a few weeks Read More →
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By Alex Kacik / Friday, September 4th, 2015 / Columns, Latest news, Real Estate, South Coast / Comments Off on Santa Barbara office building for lease until $2M renovation starts
Radius Commercial Real Estate Group recently listed two industrial/office buildings totaling 27,200 square feet at 749 and 759 Ward Drive in Santa Barbara. One 17,200-square-foot building is available for a 58 cent-per-square-foot lease until October 2016 when the owner will begin a $2 million-plus renovation. Both buildings will be ready in early 2017, according to Read More →
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By Henry Dubroff / Friday, August 28th, 2015 / Columns / Comments Off on Straight talk from China would calm stock market turbulence
What a difference a week makes. A mid-August meltdown in the Chinese stock market suddenly went global, putting major U.S. averages in meltdown mode. Federal Reserve Bank of New York President Bill Dudley put it bluntly on Aug. 26, suggesting at a news conference that the case for raising interest rates in September is now Read More →
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By Alex Kacik / Friday, August 28th, 2015 / Columns, Real Estate / Comments Off on Buellton hotel project secures funding to begin construction
A Buellton hotel project recently secured $14 million to start construction. The Los Angeles-based real estate investment company Lowe Enterprises Investors gave a $13.99 million construction loan to Ocean Park Hotels, a hotel construction company in Monterey, to fund building a Hampton Inn and Suites at 600 McMurray Road. The three-story, 99-unit property that will Read More →
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