SFVBJ Current Edition

Insurer Bets on Warner Center

Real Estate: Farmers Insurance move from Mid-Wilshire a boost.

REAL ESTATE: Farmers Insurance Group’s move to Warner Center has brokers. optimistic about the sluggish office market.

Training Program Lifts Off in Desert

Aviation: Flight Research piloted by new ownership in Mojave.

AVIATION: Mojave flight school takes off with new ownership.

Energy Drink Firm Seeks Kick From Listing on Markets

BEVERAGEs: Chatsworth firm’s odorless, colorless liquid makes anything into an energy drink.

Billboard Firm Wants the Lights On

Advertising: Clear Channel seeks legislative solution after legal setback.

ADVERTISING: Clear Channel isn’t giving up the fight for digital billboards. But is it lights out for the advertiser?

Selling Tony Area On Swap Meet

Developer looks to get Newbury Park to buy into discount retail.

RETAIL: A proposed swap meet is a hard sell in tony Thousand Oaks.

Yogurt Chain Sprinkles App Into Mix

Game from Menchie’s lets players set up and run virtual store.

TECH: Frozen yogurt company Menchies rolls out a new app it thinks will keep customers smiling.

Film Veteran Wrapped Up In Ear Buds

Gary Martinez turns to Kickstarter for his tangle-free device.

INTERNET: Veteran Hollywood mechanical engineer Gary Martinez funds ear bud venture with Kickstarter.

Computer Mouse Likes Rough Stuff

Interlink’s Durapoint clicks with harsh working environments.

EQUIPMENT: Interlink’s new computer mouse can take any abuse you throw its way.

Well Done... Raring to Go

Restaurants: Eden Burger Bar is tucked away but its founder has a big appetite for success.

FOOD: Glendale’s Eden Burger Bar thinks about expansion over the hill.

Clothing Store Takes Space – With Alterations

Retail: Marshalls leases Brand Boulevard building long vacated by Borders.

RETAIL: Discount clothing seller Marshalls will take former Borders location in Glendale.

Shifting Focus

Entrepreneur Robin Richards has started multiple businesses in his long career and he’s at it again with a group of jobs sites.

Q&A: With his newest company, Robin Richards wants to find everyone a job.

Telemedicine Gets Good Reception at Hospitals

Technology: Stroke initative led by Burbank’s St. Joseph and four other facilities.

The first “telestroke” network in Southern California will open in the San Fernando Valley and feature robots that will help doctors examine and diagnose patients.

Encino Internet Research Firm Going Mobile

Marketing: uSamp unveils app that allows users to interact with advertisers.

Headed to the grocery store?

Can Juicy Couture Get Going with Active Wear?

Apparel: Struggling Arleta brand to release new lines amid sale speculation.

The days of the velour track suit are long gone, but Juicy Couture, the brand that broke the bank with the late ‘90s trend, hasn’t really recovered.

Downtown Glendale Block Put on the Block

Commercial: CitiGroup selling 3.2-acre property for possible mixed-use

An entire city block is on the market in Glendale, and it may just be the future site of another mixed-use apartment complex.

Around the Valleys

News and notes from around the greater San Fernando Valley

A 20-unit apartment building on Moorpark Street in Sherman Oaks has sold for $4.5 million.

Calendar

Calendar of Events

Stockwatch

Market Watch Summary

Stocks were down across the board for the two-week period ended June 5.

A 20th Century Miseducation

EDITOR: Standardized testing doesn’t hurt tomorrow’s business leaders.

L.A. County crippled by unfriendly attitude toward business

BizFed’s annual survey of over 100 leading business groups representing more than 250,000 businesses throughout L.A. County should be a wakeup call for Southern California leaders:

State’s low ranking in annual policy survey is a partisan attack

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) recently released its sixth annual “Rich States, Poor States” ranking of business policies in the 50 states.

Sig Alert on Congestion Fee

Business group says planned fee on new construction to improve traffic is a bad idea that should be halted.

Year in and year out, the Los Angeles region takes home the prestigious title of being the No. 1 most congested area in the country.

Grounding Airport Curfews

In 1990, members of the then-Democratic Congress drafted a law to control the noise of commercial, business and recreational aircraft departing airports across America.

Editorial Cartoon SFVBJ - June 10, 2013

TAKE TWO - This week's Editorial Cartoon by Steve Greenberg