North Bay Business Journal

  • Q&A with leaders in North Bay contracting

    October 10th, 2011

    The Business Journal asked several leading general contractors in the North Bay about the outlook for construction activity and the trends shaping the industry.

  • Spotlight on leaders in contracting

    August 16th, 2010

    The following are the largest commercial general, general engineering, plumbing, electrical, HVAC and solar contractors in the North Bay, based on their ranking on Business Journal lists in the past 12 months.

  • Nordby CEO leaves company

    June 15th, 2010

    SANTA ROSA — Wendell “Del” Nordby III, chief executive officer of Nordby Construction Inc., one of the North Bay’s largest commercial general contractors, left the company June 1. His brother, Craig, is now president and CEO.

  • Del Nordby emerges from Chapter 11

    June 7th, 2010

    SANTA ROSA — Developer and general contractor Wendell “Del” Nordby III has emerged from U.S. Bankruptcy Court protection after creditors signed off on a reorganization plan for his personal finances.

  • 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. |

  • Goldeneye winery

    December 14th, 2009

    PHILO – In a county that markets itself as “America’s greenest wine region” for its long history of natural-minded methods, Duckhorn Wine Co. aims to raise a new symbol of environmentalism with its winery for the Goldeneye brand from Mendocino County. The winery, completed this summer in the Anderson Valley winegrowing region, has been registered [...]

  • Seghesio, B.R. Cohn move forward with parts of expansions

    August 24th, 2009

    HEALDSBURG – The Seghesio winemaking family has found that an economic recession can be a good time to save money by spending money on construction that will make more money in wine sales.

  • Green project profile: Duckhorn’s Goldeneye winery in Mendocino

    August 9th, 2009

    Duckhorn Wine Co.’s new winery in Mendocino County’s Anderson Valley winegrowing region has been registered with the U.S. Green Building Council for certification under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating system for new construction, or LEED-NC. Verdier Architects, which has designed a number of boutique wineries, and Zach Rasmuson, Goldeneye vice president, general manager and winemaker, aimed project features to achieve “silver” level certification, which is the second of four levels in the LEED system. If certified, it would be the first winery to earn that distinction in Mendocino County.

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