North Bay Business Journal

  • City experiment with same-day TI permitting makes perfect sense

    January 2nd, 2012

    At the Business Journal’s Impact Sonoma conference last October, Santa Rosa Vice Mayor and supervisorial candidate John Sawyer said the city’s is gauging progress on reforming permitting processes by the declining number of applicants at the counter who exclaim in frustration”You have got to be kidding?” Mr. Sawyer ran through a litany of overly picky [...]

  • Santa Rosa to test same-day tenant-improvement plan check

    December 19th, 2011

    SANTA ROSA — As part of a wide-ranging review of zoning and permitting policies to spur business growth, the city of Santa Rosa plans to try same-day permitting for simple commercial tenant improvements, possibly shortening a process that can take weeks.

  • Top Real Estate Projects of 2011: Recognition of remarkable projects important in difficult economy

    December 5th, 2011

    Welcome to the Business Journal’s sixth annual Top Projects competition recognizing 11 exceptional contributions to the North Bay’s built environment. Read about what makes each remarkable in 2011.

  • DeTurk Round Barn: Painstaking historic restoration with high-tech, too

    December 5th, 2011

    Since the $2.5 million adaptive-reuse painstaking transformation a 120-year-old historic horse stable into a high-tech community center was completed in March, DeTurk Round Barn in west Santa Rosa has accommodated weddings and receptions, birthday parties, business and group meetings, workshops and special events almost once a week, and a number of holiday parties are lined up through the end of this year.

  • Santa Rosa seeks business input

    July 29th, 2011

    The city of Santa Rosa is conducting an online survey of local businesses. Companies small and large are encouraged to log on and give their feedback. Responses will help the city to better understand business challenges, needs and opportunities.

  • Kaiser holds fifth ‘Neighbors in Health’; 400 kids helped last year

    August 2nd, 2010

    SANTA ROSA — Kaiser Permanente Medical Center of Santa Rosa held its fifth annual “Neighbors in Health” on Sunday, an event geared toward providing health care services for uninsured children throughout Sonoma County.

  • Aquatic biomass project drawing broad attention

    May 10th, 2010

    SANTA ROSA – Launching today is the significant second phase of the Fuel from Aquatic Biomass, or FAB, project at the Santa Rosa Laguna.

  • Innovation Forum issues call for startup presenters

    March 8th, 2010

    SANTA ROSA – Start-up and second-stage companies looking for investment expertise should apply to be a presenter at the Eighth North Bay Growth & Innovation Forum. The event takes place on April 28 and the cutoff for applications is March 12.

  • 51 units of affordable housing set for downtown

    March 8th, 2010

    SANTA ROSA – The Hugh Futrell Corp. and Burbank Housing are teaming up on a 51-unit affordable housing project with 2,500 square feet of commercial space in downtown Santa Rosa.

  • JDS plans showcase solar

    October 5th, 2009

    SANTA ROSA – JDS Uniphase has filed plans with the city of Santa Rosa to build a three-and-a-half-acre solar installation on land it owns on Thunderbolt Way in Santa Rosa’s Northpoint Corporate Center.
    When completed, the one-plus megawatt system will be the largest solar array in the North Bay.
    The cutting edge installation, incorporating a sun tracking system and a solar cell under development at JDSU, will provide heat, air conditioning and electricity to adjacent Building C on the Santa Rosa JDSU campus.

  • Construction: Prospect of energy retrofits raises stir

    July 30th, 2009

    A group calling itself the Santa Rosa Neighborhood Association created a furor in the West End portion of the city early this summer by circulating fliers claiming “the city of Santa Rosa is in the process of imposing green building requirements on all existing buildings that will impact your home and business.”

  • Santa Rosa economic officials spent months wooing software firm

    July 19th, 2009

    SANTA ROSA – The Santa Rosa Economic Development Division can take a lot of the credit in Washington, D.C.-based Métier’s decision to open its first branch office in the city.

  • Big changes on housing, land use in Santa Rosa plan

    February 9th, 2009

    SANTA ROSA – Business and construction groups are concerned Santa Rosa is trying to accomplish too much in too little time with a proposed update to land-use policy for the next 25 years.

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