Geyserville – North Bay Business Journal - North San Francisco Bay Area, Sonoma, Marin, Napa counties

River Rock restructures $200 million in debt

November 2nd, 2011

GEYSERVILLE — River Rock Entertainment Authority, which oversees the River Rock Casino, said today it has reached an agreement to restructure $200 million in debt with creditors.
River Rock Casino revenues $31.2 million for quarter

August 15th, 2011

GEYSERVILLE — The River Rock Authority, operator of the River Rock Casino, said net revenues for the second quarter ended June 30 this year were $31.2 million, compared to $32.4 million during the same period last year.
Ascentia to move Buena Vista wine brand to Geyserville

March 1st, 2011

HEALDSBURG — California’s oldest wine brand, Buena Vista, will be relocating north to Alexander Valley this spring to increase efficiency and allow greater sourcing of grapes, Ascentia Wine Estates announced today.
Top Projects: Solar: Constellation Wines U.S. solar project

December 6th, 2010

CALIFORNIA — Constellation Wines U.S., one of the world’s largest wine companies and operator of several North Coast wineries, undertook one of the largest such projects for the wine industry this year.
Coppola unveils ‘wine wonderland’

November 15th, 2010

GEYSERVILLE – Work crews last week were putting the finishing touches on Francis Ford Coppola’s “wine wonderland” makeover of the former Chateau Souverain winery in Sonoma County’s Alexander Valley.
Constellation launches 4-megawatt solar project

September 13th, 2010

GEYSERVILLE — Constellation Wines U.S., one of the world’s largest wine companies and operator of several North Coast wineries, on Monday unveiled a solar-electricity project at four California wineries — including Clos du Bois and Ravenswood — expected to be one of the largest such projects for the wine industry when completed by the end of this year.
Venture offers a place for grapes

August 9th, 2010

GEYSERVILLE — M. Draxton Inc. is one of the options North Coast winegrape growers have for extending the marketability of their crops in case they have unsold grapes at harvest.
Green Business: Clos Du Bois, Simi and Ascentia win energy awards

August 9th, 2010

Also: Hall recognized for ‘excellence in sustainable winegrowing’
Community Foundation, Oliver Ranch in novel partnership

June 21st, 2010

SANTA ROSA — A novel agreement between the Community Foundation Sonoma County and the Oliver Foundation will keep an artistic enclave operating for both public and private benefit for years to come – with more attractive tax benefits and less onerous regulation.
Some river gravel removal proposed to protect fish, bridge, land

June 7th, 2010

ALEXANDER VALLEY – Sonoma County planning officials will have to decide starting this month whether a proposal to commercially skim gravel bars in several miles of the Russian River through Alexander Valley would be worth it for increasing the supply of choice aggregate, protecting acres of riverside vineyards and a key bridge from erosion and opening creeks to migration of protected fish.
Wine: Coppola set to open new digs; also, Nordby’s ‘reskinning’

May 24th, 2010

Francis Ford Coppola had about 450 applicants turn out earlier this month for 130 positions at his newly renovated Geyserville winery. The number of experienced applicants, mainly in hospitality functions, negated the need for a second job fair, according to a spokeswoman. | The battle against the European grapevine moth has expanded to six California counties. | Healdsburg-based Ascentia Wine Estates, which started in June 2008 with more than $200 million raised from GESD Capital Partners of San Francisco and wine marketer W.J. Deutsch & Sons of New York, is now in a legal battle with the latter. | Recent crop reports underscore the larger 2009 winegrape crop in the North Coast. | Pigs will soon be flying through winery pipes. Named after the squealing noise made by devices the petroleum industry uses to maintain pipe interiors, these food-grade silicone “pigs” were devised by ARS Enterprises of Calistoga to move the remainder of wine between areas of a winery without water as well as clean deposits left in the pipes. |
River Rock completes $4 million renovation

May 17th, 2010

GEYSERVILLE – River Rock Casino in Geyserville completed a $4 million renovation project, including a new stage, poker room, Center Stage Bar & Grill, Asian fusion-themed Fortune Cafe and self-serve beverage area.
Construction: Mi Pueblo opens in Marin; Santa Rosa store plans second location

March 22nd, 2010

Mi Pueblo Foods opened its San Rafael store, renovated from a 36,000-square-foot shuttered Circuit City store, on Wednesday. … Rancho Mendoza Super Mercado is reworking 14,000 square feet of former high-technology development and furniture store space at 1201 Piner Road in northwest Santa Rosa to create a second location. … The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service last week expanded the critical habitat for the threatened California red-legged frog into six counties not covered by the 2006 ruling on habitat, including 21,814 acres along Mill Creek on the Mendocino Coast and two locations in Sonoma County, encompassing 1,564 acres in and around Annadel State Park east of Santa Rosa and 4,932 acres on Sonoma Mountain. … Ken Lafranchi of Santa Rosa-based Lafranchi Architecture and Development said the bulk of interest for the forthcoming remodel of the 2,400-square-foot Geyserville Post Office is coming from a group of boutique vintners interested in setting up a collective tasting room. … The Dutra Group’s proposal for an asphalt plant and aggregate distribution facility along the Petaluma River was postponed from March 16 to the May 11 Sonoma County Board of Supervisors meeting.
Who’s Who in Independent Wine Companies

June 29th, 2009

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.
New project proﬁles: Sonoma Co. courts, Trione winery, Skylane Business Park,

September 15th, 2008

Editor’s note: The Business Journal features profiles of North Bay construction projects that are complete or nearly so. Send details to jquackenbush@busjrnl.com or fax to 707-521-5292.
Commercial projects remake Geyserville

March 19th, 2007

GEYSERVILLE — Marble-floored offices, structural glass exteriors and commercial condominiums are part of a multimillion-dollar wave of private construction projects set to restore some of the glory of yesteryear to the former crossroads boomtown of Geyserville.