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  • Volvo acquires North Bay construction equipment rental business

    May 18th, 2012

    AMERICAN CANYON — A subsidiary of Sweden-based manufacturer Volvo AB acquired a North Bay construction rental equipment company as part of a rapid nationwide expansion.

  • Hudson Street Design expands to Napa

    May 14th, 2012

    NAPA — A year after it significantly expanded a high-end residential interiors dealership in Marin County, Healdsburg-based HLC Inc. is planting roots in Napa Valley.

  • People: Week of May 14, 2012

    May 14th, 2012

    Construction Carilile Macy, a Santa Rosa-based civil engineering, landscape architecture and surveying firm, has hired Christopher Brown as its  finance manager. Health Care Chris Bandy, MD, FACS, has been named trauma medical director of Kaiser Permanente’s Vacaville Medical Center. Dr. Bandy joins Kaiser Permanente from Enloe Medical Center in Chico where he was a trauma and [...]

  • Sonoma Valley Hospital gets $3 million gift for emergency wing

    May 10th, 2012

    SONOMA — Staffing company founder Gary Nelson and his wife, Marcia, are making a $3 million gift toward an extensive upgrade of Sonoma Valley Hospital, including a new emergency department and other improvements, it was announced today.

  • Assembly approves Casino in Rohnert Park

    May 10th, 2012

    ROHNERT PARK — The California State Assembly today approved a pact between the state and the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria that will allow for a Las Vegas-style casino on the outskirts of Rohnert Park, a move that all but assures construction will begin on the controversial project.

  • Sutter selects developer for Santa Rosa medical office building

    May 9th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa today announced it selected Irvine-based Hammes Company to develop an on-campus, state-of-the-art medical office building as part of the new $284 million hospital just north of Santa Rosa.

  • Lucasfilm moves forward with affordable housing at Grady Ranch

    May 8th, 2012

    NOVATO — Lucasfilm has partnered with the Marin Community Foundation to explore options for building affordable housing on the Grady Ranch property near San Rafael that George Lucas originally planned for a sizable digital-movie studio.

  • Sonoma Valley Hospital to break ground on $39 million upgrade

    May 7th, 2012

    SONOMA — Sonoma Valley Hospital will break ground this week on a $39 million upgrade that will bring the hospital in line with state-mandated seismic standards while significantly improving the 83-bed facility’s emergency department along with other improvements, officials said

  • Report: Homebuilding to rebound after prices hit bottom in 2013

    May 7th, 2012

    SONOMA COUNTY — Residential construction in the North Bay’s most populous county is projected to improve this year as prices for unsold homes finally hit bottom heading into 2013, but the pace of homebuilding going forward will be slower than before the economic recession and profits will be pinched harder, according to a new county government report.

  • Food bank expects to open new building in January

    May 7th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — More than 100 representatives from many of the 149 nonprofit and faith-based agencies served by the Redwood Empire Food Bank were given an advance preview of the new headquarters building and food distribution hub on April 17.

  • Marmot got RP building permits in eight days

    May 7th, 2012

    ROHNERT PARK — High-end outdoor clothing and gear maker Marmot Mountain LLC wants to have its expansion to 58,000 square feet of office and light-manufacturing space in two vacant Rohnert Park buildings completed by summer, and thanks to a gamble by one of the new landlords and a fast-moving city permitting process, building permits for the bulk of the tenant improvements were approved in just eight calendar days.

  • Psych hospital opening pushed to August

    May 5th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — The long-awaited opening of a 93-bed psychiatric hospital in Santa Rosa has been pushed back until August due to construction delays, according to the forthcoming hospital’s chief executive officer.

  • May 15 event: Contractor rules, regulations and today’s projects

    May 5th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — State regulators are cracking down on contractors trying to cut corners on employment and licensing law to win jobs amid the steep contraction in the building industry in the past six years, while local governments increasingly have been actively looking for ways to speed projects that will revive the economy and tax base, according to experts set to speak at the Business Journal’s 2012 Construction Conference next week.

  • Developer buys Napa Town Center after council OKs downtown plan

    May 2nd, 2012

    NAPA — A major proposed redevelopment of 156,000-square-foot shopping center in the heart of downtown Napa will now go forward, after the Napa City Council unanimously approved a 20-year plan to guide the area’s development and the months-long suitor for the property purchased it.

  • North Bay health centers get $11.8 million in construction grants

    May 1st, 2012

    A handful of health centers in and near the North Bay received grants totaling $11.8 million as part of a national program under the health care reform law, it was announced today.

  • Share your thoughts on the proposed Rohnert Park casino

    May 1st, 2012

    ROHNERT PARK — A Las Vegas-style Indian casino has been proposed — and is nearing approval — for the outskirts of Rohnert Park, prompting a high-pitched debate on whether the city and the county are properly suited for the project.

  • Loss of Lucas project could reverberate for years

    April 30th, 2012

    SAN RAFAEL – The decision by Lucasfilm to withdraw advanced plans for a new digital movie studio in San Rafael’s Lucas Valley will reverberate throughout the Marin County economy for many years and result in the loss of hundreds of jobs and tens of millions of dollars to the regional economy.

  • Kentfield hospital to get $9 million upgrade

    April 30th, 2012

    KENTFIELD — Kentfield Rehabilitation and Specialty Hospital will soon undergo a $9 million renovation and upgrade, a project five years in the making that is poised to begin in mid-May or early June, officials announced.

  • North Coast water board names new executive officer

    April 27th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — The North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board announced the appointment of Matthew St. John, an 11-year staff member and head of logging and erosion regulation, as executive officer.

  • Memorial set to begin $15 million upgrade to emergency department

    April 23rd, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, the only level II trauma center in the region, said it will soon begin site preparation work on a $15 million renovation to its emergency department, a project that was delayed with the financial collapse of 2008.

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