North Bay Business Journal

SANTA ROSA — After more than six years of planning, the larger new home of Redwood Empire Food Bank is set to open Tuesday.

WINDSOR — Wine Country Shipping plans to more than double the size of its Windsor facilities next year to satisfy vintner demand for casegoods storage.

SANTA ROSA — American AgCredit plans to build a new, 50,000-square-foot headquarters in Santa Rosa, with company executives citing the expertise of current staff and a regional talent pool as key drivers to keep its administrative nucleus on the West Coast at a time of rapid national expansion.

“The best way to keep them working is to keep them happy,” said Rob Turner, founder and president of EMG, Inc., about the more than five dozen production employees in the north Santa Rosa factory.

From injection molding for plastic cases around the company’s dozens of variations of electromagnetic pickups for amplifying musical instruments to precise wire winding for pickup coils to cable assemblies, the factory staff make and assemble most all the key components in a 30,000-square-foot factory in an industrial park near Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport.

SANTA ROSA – NeilMed Pharmaceuticals Inc., the developer and principal maker of saline nasal rinses and related products, has expanded into an additional 90,000 square feet near the Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport.

Over 2009 the Santa Rosa north corridor real estate market saw an increase in both the office and industrial vacancy for the region.

Marin County residential and commercial property owners may soon get access to long-term financing for energy- and water-efficiency upgrades, similar to what has been available since this spring through the Sonoma County Energy Independence Program.

SANTA ROSA – Under a deadline this fall to cut irrigation by 50 percent, owners and operators of commercial properties around Charles M. Schulz – Sonoma County Airport have nearly reached that goal.

WINDSOR – The largest chain of farm and ranch stores in the U.S. is making a push into Sonoma County with a planned store in Windsor.