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A CSU turf war over an MBA program

By   /  Monday, September 21st, 2009  /  Columns  /  Comments Off on A CSU turf war over an MBA program

Dick Rush is not a fan of Cal Poly’s plan to study the possibility of setting up an MBA program in or around Santa Barbara. Rush, president of California State University Channel Islands, has put a lot of time and fundraising muscle behind the Martin V. Smith School of Business. He’s been wooing donors and Read More →

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San Luis Obispo holds its own in commercial real estate market

By   /  Monday, September 14th, 2009  /  Columns  /  Comments Off on San Luis Obispo holds its own in commercial real estate market

While San Luis Obispo was busy weighing the pros and cons of a possible Target or an Ernie Dalidio development, Lee & Associates released its commercial real estate update, which showed that vacancy is actually down 33 percent from a year ago. The commercial vacancy rate for San Luis Obispo County is relatively small at Read More →

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South Coast needs a path for recovery

By   /  Monday, September 14th, 2009  /  Columns  /  Comments Off on South Coast needs a path for recovery

Up until the crash in the global financial markets last September, it looked like the South Coast region of the Tri-Counties would escape the recession largely unscathed.   That turns out not to have been the case. And now the stretch of coast from Carpinteria to Goleta is in danger of losing its status as Read More →

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Shaking up Montecito

By   /  Monday, September 7th, 2009  /  Columns  /  Comments Off on Shaking up Montecito

For the past few years, hedge fund managers were quietly filling in the gaps of their classic car collections, while the headlines oozing from around Montecito’s stone walls were largely celebrity dustups. Revelation of actor Rob Lowe’s already public address sparked major upheaval at the Santa Barbara News-Press. Julia Louis-Dreyfus took her best shots at Read More →

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September conferences forecast Ventura Co. real estate market

By   /  Monday, September 7th, 2009  /  Columns  /  Comments Off on September conferences forecast Ventura Co. real estate market

You won’t have to wait long to get the scoop on Ventura County’s housing market. September’s conferences will fill in all the gaps. • First up is the 2009 Ventura County Economic Outlook Conference, slated for Sept. 10 at the Westlake Hyatt. Economist Mark Schniepp will have a forecast for not only the housing market Read More →

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Conejo leads SoCal into new decade

By   /  Monday, August 31st, 2009  /  Columns  /  Comments Off on Conejo leads SoCal into new decade

Would the last person in Dos Vientos please turn out the lights? That’s what some residents of the toney subdivision in Thousand Oaks were wondering not so very long ago as the Conejo Valley underwent a series of economic tremors. First, struggling mortgage giant Countrywide Financial Corp. was sold at near fire-sale prices to Bank Read More →

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Moorpark industrial building sold in lease-to-own deal

By   /  Monday, August 24th, 2009  /  Columns  /  Comments Off on Moorpark industrial building sold in lease-to-own deal

A family trust has acquired a 32,233-square-foot industrial building that its family business, Pindler & Pindler Inc., had been occupying for the past two and a half years with an option to purchase. “These types of lease-to-own arrangements have become a lot more popular as the leasing market has slowed,” said Mike Tingus, president of Read More →

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