North Bay Business Journal

Calendar: Week of June 29

Calendar of business events in the North Bay for upcoming weeks

Cuvaison remakes tasting rooms with green design

NAPA VALLEY – Cuvaison Estate Wines redesigned its historic Calistoga tasting room as well as its Carneros site at the winery’s 400-acre estate vineyards. Green features used in the remodel include solar energy watch on its Web site, storm water routed through bioswales, reclaimed and certified sustainably grown wood, windows positioned for natural temperature control and used-denim insulation.

Business News: Week of June 29

News submitted by North Bay businesses for publication in the Business Journal for June 29th

Airport readies for terminal improvements

SANTA ROSA – The Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport is getting ready for a major facelift, thanks to funds coming from two different sources totaling more than $3.3 million.

Leases & Sales: Week of June 29

Size and location; use; tenant; agent or landlord; approximate date of occupancy or transaction.

Residency consortium members,not giving up hope, back at table

SONOMA COUNTY – A consortium brought together to provide a long-term structure for the county’s 71-year-old residency program has gone back to the table after two years of efforts recently hit a major funding roadblock.

Public input meetings set for Cloverdale plan

CLOVERDALE – The city of Cloverdale completed the purchase of 5.32 acres of the Thyme Square commercial development site using $3.1 million in funds for low-moderate income housing projects. It also conducted the first of three workshops to gather public input on the Station Area Plan, which will guide the development of a connection between downtown and the SMART station and provide a design for a gateway to downtown as well as proposed uses for the Thyme Square site.

Women in Business 2009: Technology: CamelBak leader finds similar lessons in outdoors and office

PETALUMA – Since her first backpacking trip at age 5, Sally McCoy knew she loved the outdoors. Her passion for business came much later.

But the combination produced a one-of-a-kind individual: a woman who is equally at home in a boardroom or on a mountaintop.

SSU business students step into the field to learn

ROHNERT PARK – Students at Sonoma State University’s School of Business are trying out a new way of learning operations management by attending classes onsite at local companies.

Who’s Who in Independent Wine Companies

What follows are brief introductions to the top leaders of independently owned wine companies from the Business Journal’s Independently Owned Wineries list, published in March, and the Wine Companies list, published in this issue.

Commentary: Now is the time to win the race for the best talent

Whew – that was a close one. For a while there, it was economic Armageddon, financial meltdown, the collapse of the world economy and the Earth falling off its axis. Not even Superman, Greenspan or Bernanke-in-a-cape could come to our rescue.

Palm Drive lenders forgive $1 million loan

SEBASTOPOL – Palm Drive Hospital board President Dan Smith will forgive a $1 million loan he and his wife made to the hospital, according to a release sent last week.

Hotels that Help seeks to raise $10 million for nonprofits

SAN ANSELMO – Recently retired California Hotel & Lodging Association Chief Executive Jim Abrams and San Anselmo entrepreneur Dave Levenson this month officially launched the Hotels that Help program, a program that raises funds for local nonprofits by adding a dollar onto the room rates of participating hotels.

NBLC seeks entries for leadership awards

NORTH BAY – The North Bay Leadership Council is seeking nominations for its 2009 Leaders of the North Bay Awards, created to recognize leaders within business, organizations or partnerships that contribute to the community through their leadership.

Workers comp increases arrive

CALIFORNA – The halcyon days of diving California workers’ compensation insurance rates have finally subsided with the first of what appears to be across-the-board premium increases. Rates have exhibited signs of a potential change for months, and last week one of the state’s largest carriers filed for a 15 percent change. Prices in other insurance [...]

Women in Business gala Thursday

NORTH BAY – The Business Journal’s ninth annual Women in Business Awards Dinner Gala Thursday will honor eight women from Sonoma, Marin and Napa counties who have distinguished themselves as leaders, innovators and visionaries in their fields. The 2009 Women in Business winners in their respective categories are: Marlene Soiland, Soiland Management Co., Construction; Kate [...]

Mill Valley gets green mixed-use project

MILL VALLEY – The Tamalpais Commons housing and retail development under construction along the Miller Avenue major thoroughfare of this small southern Marin County city is set to be a certified green project.

Green Business: Water officials OK B20 for tanks; new organic wine rules

State water-quality regulators are allowing storage of biodiesel blends up to 20 percent, or B20, in approved, compliant underground fuel tanks through Dec. 1 on an “emergency” basis as they work on permanent rules. The temporary rule went into effect June 1.

Efficient-cooling startup Core4 to launch

NAPA – Core4 Systems, which applied its energy-saving cooling solutions to Sonic.net’s server room in Santa Rosa, is ready to take its product to a huge and growing market.

Healdsburg breaks ground on green, affordable rental housing

HEALDSBURG – Healdsburg Family Housing held a ceremonial ground-breaking for an affordable and green housing development on its site near downtown Healdsburg Wednesday.