WILSHIRE BLVD — Technology and web startups took top billing at the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce’s State of the City event Thursday morning, with city officials pointing to the flourishing industry as a sign of a bright economic future in “Silicon Beach.
A community meeting on the Pico-Centinela project is being held on Thursday, Jan. 26, at Fairview Library, located at 21st Street and Ocean Park Boulevard in Sunset Park.
EASTSIDE — A unique development model meant to make home ownership affordable on Santa Monica’s eastside may turn into more rental housing because of financing issues, highlighting the ongoing struggle to make home ownership affordable in Santa Monica.
DOWNTOWN — The Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce has selected Santa Monica College as the recipient of its 2012 Economic Excellence Award, which will be presented during the annual State of the City event on Jan.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — The committee that will shape a controversial fundraising policy for the school district will get started on its work this month amidst concerns that its unwieldy size and difficult subject matter will disrupt plans to enact the policy by 2013.
City officials can talk all they want about how Santa Monica is becoming more business friendly, but unless you’re Yahoo!, MTV or Activision, the reality is it’s far from it.
DOWNTOWN — While the holiday season is about more than just gift giving and receiving, those times spent by the Christmas tree or the menorah opening presents painstakingly selected by loved ones make for some of our fondest memories.
CITYWIDE — Check your inbox each morning and you’ll probably see one, an e-mail promising you half off of a cosmetic service, a steal on a tropical vacation to Mexico or buy-in to a lottery of sought after sports tickets.
If small business owners decided to stop paying our fair share of taxes, we’d be sent to jail. Big business tax dodgers want Congress to reward them with a tax holiday.
DOWNTOWN — Santa Monica’s reputation for being a hot spot for technology and entertainment businesses received a boost with the reported $90 million purchase of five “creative” office buildings by a Houston-based real estate investment firm.
DOWNTOWN — With his own architectural design firm and asset management company, Sheldon D. Liber knows what it costs to do business in Santa Monica, and it isn’t cheap.
CITY HALL — The Malibu City Council unanimously endorsed a move by its school subcommittee to start a process that could end in Malibu’s secession from the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District.
