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SBA-backed deals are propping up commercial real estate market

By   /  Monday, October 25th, 2010  /  Columns, Real Estate, Small Business  /  Comments Off on SBA-backed deals are propping up commercial real estate market

Small businesses are starting to look like the heroes in the commercial real estate market’s turnaround tale. Businesses buying property for their own use, also known as owner-users, have fueled a number of deals in the Tri-Counties recently, many of them aided by financing through U.S. Small Business Administration lending programs. In Oxnard, Industrial Park Read More →

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Totaling up the hefty price tag of Mozilo

By   /  Monday, October 25th, 2010  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Totaling up the hefty price tag of Mozilo

The lifetime ban against former Countrywide Financial Corp. CEO Angelo Mozilo serving as an officer or director of a public company may be the most positive result to come from his settlement of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission complaint. But Mozilo’s company and his conduct created a decade-long road to economic ruin that reached Read More →

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From the editor: Mozilo’s ban a true black mark

By   /  Monday, October 18th, 2010  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on From the editor: Mozilo’s ban a true black mark

The lifetime ban against former Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo serving as an officer or director of a public company may be the most positive result to come from his settlement of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission complaint. As reported over the weekend, the SEC settled with Mozilo and two top lieutenants in a case Read More →

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A new addition to Santa Barbara’s courthouse corridor

By   /  Monday, October 18th, 2010  /  Columns, Real Estate  /  Comments Off on A new addition to Santa Barbara’s courthouse corridor

As one of the only ground-up buildings to be constructed in Santa Barbara’s downtown core in years, the new law office complex at 1100 Santa Barbara St. is something of an anomaly. Also rare is the $1.3 million price tag and eight-month construction time line — the 6,000-square-foot project was under budget and ahead of Read More →

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‘J.R.’ takes on Wall St., and charities win

By   /  Monday, October 18th, 2010  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on ‘J.R.’ takes on Wall St., and charities win

A generation after “Dallas” disappeared from the small screen, Ojai actor Larry Hagman has staged a comeback as a media star. The man who played J.R. Ewing was the subject of global news coverage — including a flattering column in the Sunday New York Times — after he won a big settlement against Citigroup and Read More →

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Nonprofit seizes opportunity to turn hassle into new facility

By   /  Monday, October 11th, 2010  /  Columns, Nonprofits, Real Estate  /  Comments Off on Nonprofit seizes opportunity to turn hassle into new facility

Question: The city wants to extend a road through your property, right through a corner where several key buildings are located. What do you do? (a) Put up a fight. (b) Sell the city the land, and use the proceeds as seed money to build a new facility on your remaining property. Santa Maria-based VTC Read More →

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Southwest on South Coast: A LUV story

By   /  Monday, October 11th, 2010  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Southwest on South Coast: A LUV story

At Santa Barbara Municipal Airport these days, construction crews are making progress on a $60  million expansion. When it opens next spring, the airport will get a new, two-story terminal, waiting areas that actually have bathrooms and five gates served by jetways. Thirteen hundred miles away in Dallas, the nation’s most profitable airline is also in Read More →

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