North Bay Business Journal

  • Ramekins Culinary School: A courtyard that takes one back centuries

    December 5th, 2011

    SONOMA – When Sarah and Darius Anderson bought the Ramekins Culinary School in 2008 at 450 W. Spain St., they saw an opportunity to transform the facility into an elegant European-style learning center, event locale and inn.

  • Construction: Santa Rosa ordered to pay $243,000 in legal fees after losing tax-district suit

    June 6th, 2011

    Sonoma County Superior Court judge Mark Tansil late last month ordered the city of Santa Rosa to pay the Building Industry Association of the Bay Area and its legal counsel, Pacific Legal Foundation, $243,417.50 in legal fees. … Robert Fedrick, 56, youngest son of North Bay general engineering contracting icon C.R. Fedrick, is restarting his father’s namesake company, which was founded in 1948, acquired by Arizona-based contracting giant Sundt Corp. in 1972 and renamed as Sundt in 2004. … The Veterans Home of California at Yountville received certification under the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design for New Construction project rating system following a $17 million renovation of the Member Services Building, according to the California Department of Veterans Affairs. The project achieved Gold-level certification, the second-highest. … H2hotel, completed last July at 219 Healdsburg Ave. near the Healdsburg Plaza, recently received Gold-level certification under the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design for New Construction project rating system.

  • Buck Institute pursues own graduate program, revisits on-site housing project

    March 31st, 2011

    NOVATO — The Buck Institute for Age Research is planning to launch its own graduate degree program and is preparing to add more parking and on-site housing for employees and students.

  • SRJC culinary center on track

    March 28th, 2011

    The new Culinary Arts Center will be the latest academic addition to the Santa Rosa Junior College campus.

  • Sonoma State receives $12 million for Green Music Center

    March 22nd, 2011

    ROHNERT PARK — Sonoma State University said today it had received a $12 million gift for the Green Music Center from Joan and Sanford I. “Sandy” Weill, the largest single cash gift in the university’s history. The gift will enable the university to complete the concert hall and adjoining lawn and commons venues in time for the 2012-2013 performance season.

  • College of Marin board OKs plan for new academic center

    March 17th, 2011

    KENTFIELD — The College of Marin Board of Trustees has approved an updated bond spending plan to include a new academic center at the Kentfield campus.

  • Top Projects: Education: McCarthy Library & Media Center, Napa Valley College

    December 6th, 2010

    NAPA — The 60,000-square-foot, two-story library and learning center at Napa Valley College opened this fall and replaced the original 21,000-square-foot facility in June of this year.

  • Luther Burbank Savings to take ex-Traverso’s site

    July 21st, 2010

    SANTA ROSA — Luther Burbank Savings, the largest Sonoma County-based financial institution with $3.5 billion in assets, is moving to the old Traverso’s Gourmet Foods site in downtown Santa Rosa, doubling the size of its current headquarters branch to 6,000 square feet.

  • Guide Dogs planning $30 million project

    July 12th, 2010

    SAN RAFAEL – Guide Dogs for the Blind, which each year teaches hundreds of new “teams” of dogs and visually impaired people to work together, plans to start construction on a $30 million renovation of its San Rafael main campus next year.

  • Sonoma Co. Airport new terminal opens

    July 7th, 2010

    SANTA ROSA — An expanded commercial airline passenger terminal for Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport partly reopened to the public today with key upgrades such as indoor baggage pickup and an integrated security checkpoint.

  • American Canyon dedicates green high school

    June 21st, 2010

    NAPA – After more than five years of environmentally sensitive planning, design and construction, American Canyon High School, set to open this fall, was dedicated Friday by the Napa Valley Unified School District.

  • Circle Bank completes purchase of future site for headquarters

    March 15th, 2010

    NOVATO — Circle Bank today announced it completed the acquisition of property to house its headquarters at 999 Grant Ave. in Novato.

  • Non-transportation projects around the North Bay

    May 18th, 2009

    NORTH BAY – Here’s an update on major construction projects around the North Bay:

  • MEDICAL: Memorial Hospital, Santa Rosa

    December 15th, 2008

    Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital’s new $57 million Heart & Vascular Institute officially opened after a final state inspection of this 27,328- square- foot state-of-the-art “hospital within a hospital” dedicated to providing excellence in cardiovascular care and research.

  • EDUCATION: Santa Rosa Junior College – Petaluma Campus expansion

    December 15th, 2008

    “One of the most remarkable highlights of Santa Rosa Junior Colleges’ 90th anniversary during 2008 was the completion of the Petaluma Campus at a 40-acre site on Sonoma Mountain Road,” said Dr. Robert Agrella, superintendent and president of SRJC.

  • New project profile: Sonoma Academy, Santa Rosa

    October 6th, 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.

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