North Bay Business Journal

  • Major private construction projects on tap in 2012

    December 19th, 2011

    A number of major private-sector construction projects will be under way or are set to begin in 2012: Grady Ranch, San Rafael; Madera Vista, Corte Madera; East Washington Place, Petaluma; Marin County Emergency Operations Facility, San Rafael; Safeway expansion, Petaluma; Bell Village, Windsor; Multitenant warehouse, Napa; Kaiser data center expansion, Napa; The Barlow, Sebastopol; and Napa Century Center, Napa.

  • Commercial real estate: Madera Vista apartments get $65 million investment

    November 21st, 2011

    Denver-based Apartment Investment and Management Co. (NYSE: AIV) is betting about $65 million on the renovation of the 126-unit vacant apartment complex in Corte Madera, amounting to $516,000 a unit. Also: Rowland Plaza to be refi’ed not sold; San Rafael Corporate Center gets medical office rezoning; Deer Creek Village courts Friedman’s, Home Depot; Santa Rosa office short-sale lands big tenant.

  • Atlanta private-equity firm acquires Il Fornaio

    June 13th, 2011

    CORTE MADERA — Il Fornaio (America) Corp., which owns the Corner Bakery Cafe and Il Fornaio Restaurants and Bakeries chains, has been acquired by affiliates of Roark Capital Group, an Atlanta-based private equity firm.

  • Zephyr Real Estate moves into Marin

    April 27th, 2011

    CORTE MADERA — Zephyr Real Estate, a 32-year-old San Francisco residential, commercial and luxury real estate brokerage, opened a new location in Marin County.

  • Marin County retail: Shopping center tenants upgrade, backfill vacancies

    March 14th, 2011

    There will be a continued upgrading of tenancies and back-filling of vacancies at shopping centers throughout the county. First-tier shopping centers are posting rental rate growth and will continue to do so throughout the year. Second-tier centers will remain flat or experience limited rental growth and third-tier centers will continue to face downward pressure on rents.

  • Marin County: Corte Madera fixture WinCup leaving for Arizona

    March 7th, 2011

    WinCup, 42 years in Corte Madera, will shut its doors by late June. The maker of Styrofoam cups is consolidating its western region manufacturing operations, according to local WinCup human resources director Jonathan Pardini.

  • Sports Authority to open high-end sportswear store in Marin

    January 4th, 2011

    CORTE MADERA — Sporting goods retailer Sports Authority plans to open one of its first new high-end activewear stores, called S.A. Elite, this spring in Town Center Corte Madera.

  • Urban Outfitters to open store in Marin County

    May 17th, 2010

    CORTE MADERA – Retailer Urban Outfitters will occupy 9,154 square feet at the Town Center Corte Madera this fall.

  • Telecom veterans launch Brevidia

    February 15th, 2010

    CORTE MADERA – Two Telecom Valley veterans have joined forces with a Marin maker of corporate videos to produce an e-learning curriculum, with an initial focus on food safety in the food manufacturing industry.

  • Spotlight on innovators in green technology

    February 1st, 2010

    This spotlight focuses on some of the North Bay people and companies that are creating new green technologies that are being put to work in the field daily. Know someone who should be here? Let us know. Listed alphabetically by innovator name.

  • Healdsburg Lumber acquires Marin window, door dealer

    December 29th, 2009

    HEALDSBURG — Healdsburg Lumber Co. said it will acquire glazing supplier The Window Warehouse LLC of Corte Madera.

  • Macerich takes on loans

    August 9th, 2009

    MARIN COUNTY – The Macerich Company took on $160 million in financing at two of its North Bay properties.

  • Women in Business 2009: Entrepreneurship: Love of books, writers, community defines Elaine Petrocelli

    June 29th, 2009

    CORTE MADERA – Elaine Petrocelli shines like a beam of light in the shadow of the big retail stores. Her Book Passage, the literary center of Marin County since 1976, is proof that independent book stores need not be snuffed out.

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