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Target submits plans for Coddingtown store

February 8th, 2012

SANTA ROSA — Target Corp. wants to replace the vacant Gottschalks store building at Coddingtown Mall with a 144,000-square-foot store.
Banking and finance: Circle Bank to educate Keiretsu-funded startups; 30% solar grant to end

December 19th, 2011

Novato-based Circle Bank has partnered with Keiretsu Forum, said to be the world’s largest angel investor network, to provide financing advice to startup and early-stage companies in the North Bay and San Francisco. … Adam Capital, a Sonoma-based lender specializing in financing small-scale solar projects, is urging solar companies to act before the window closes on a 30 percent federal grant on solar projects at the end of this year. … Westamerica bank is making preparations to move its branch in Ignacio near its current location in the Pacheco Plaza shopping center early next year, said Robert Thorson, the bank’s chief financial officer. … Community First Credit Union signed up the greater number of new members in November than in any month in its 50-year history, beating a record set in October. … The U.S. Small Business Administration is hosting a free web seminar on Dec. 15 to help small business owners prepare for the end of the 2011 tax year. … Images in Motion, a Sonoma-based studio specializing in puppets for television, is filming a series of commercials for Hawaiian Tel Federal Credit Union to “explain the benefits of credit union services to customers on the Big Island.”
Tyler Florence Rotisserie & Wine: The Parisian experience

December 5th, 2011

NAPA — Tyler Florence Rotisserie & Wine, a bistro that replicates an authentic Parisian experience complete with a sidewalk café and retail shop is at 720 Main St. in the Napa Riverfront complex.
Morimoto Napa: Sixth signature restaurant with Wine Country touches

December 5th, 2011

NAPA — When “Iron Chef” Masaharu Morimoto opened his sixth signature restaurant at 610 Main St. in Napa’s Riverfront complex, he was greeted by a long list of fans with advance reservations.
Gasser breaks ground on 12-screen Napa theater

August 24th, 2011

NAPA — Construction has started on a 163,000-square-foot shopping center in southeast Napa that is expected to draw about a half-million people a year to a new 12-screen high-tech movie venue alone, according to the developer.
Santa Rosa Plaza to get multimillion-dollar upgrade

May 12th, 2011

SANTA ROSA — Shopping mall giant Simon Property Group is making another multimillion-dollar investment this year in Santa Rosa, this time a 16-month interior and exterior renovation of its 700,000-square-foot downtown regional center.
Commercial Real Estate and Construction: Leading commercial real estate broker sees ‘growth seeds’

March 28th, 2011

Sonoma County job growth is leading that of other counties in the state, observed Al Coppin, president of commercial real estate brokerage Keegan & Coppin Co. Inc. He pointed to major leases in the Highway 101 corridor in Sonoma and Marin counties in the past several months: Cyan Optics, Calix, Métier, Central Payment Corp., BioMarin Pharmaceutical, ProSight Specialty Insurance and Amy’s Kitchen.
Project profiles: DeTurk Round Barn, Santa Rosa; Morimoto, Florence restaurants, Napa

March 21st, 2011

Profiles of new construction projects: Renovation of DeTurk Round Barn in Santa Rosa and tenant improvements for Morimoto Napa and Tyler Florence Rotisserie & Wine and West Coast Kitchen Essentials.
Cinema deal kick-starts construction on large south Napa retail projects

December 20th, 2010

NAPA — Retail and housing developments the Gasser Foundation has had in the works for years in south Napa are set to start coming out of the ground in spring or early summer now that a lease agreement has been secured for a movie theater that would be an anchor tenant for two projects totaling about 270,000 square feet.
Construction: $26 million Roseland school gets funds

December 20th, 2010

Also: Tracking the Target proposals; new phase for Napa Gateway
Top Projects: Retail: Three new Whole Foods stores in Marin, Sonoma

December 6th, 2010

NORTH BAY — Whole Foods Market takes a location-specific approach to design and product selection, reflected in the farmer’s market, train depot and craft-brew pub features of three new North Bay locations this year.
Good Earth plans to expand in 2011 move

November 30th, 2010

FAIRFAX — Good Earth Natural & Organic Foods today announced plans to relocate next fall to a larger space in a former Albertsons store in Fairfax.
Minnesota family planning sites for Anytime Fitness

August 2nd, 2010

ROHNERT PARK – Several members of a Minnesota building industry family are relocating to the North Bay to open four health clubs, starting in Rohnert Park.
Petaluma group drops suit against center

July 21st, 2010

The Petaluma group opposing the long-delayed Regency shopping center said is has settled its lawsuit with the company.
Driven Raceway prepares second venue in Fairfield

June 21st, 2010

FAIRFIELD – Less than a year after two former Telecom Valley executives turned a vacant “big box” store in Rohnert Park into an entertainment center focused on indoor European electric kart racing, they are planning to do it again in Solano County this fall.
Construction: Whole Foods testing local food concept in Mill Valley

June 7th, 2010

The newly completed renovation of the 29,000-square-foot vacant Albertsons store as a second Whole Foods Market grocery store in Mill Valley represents a testing ground for new concepts for the Texas-based chain, according to regional spokesman Danny Olivas. The company now has four Marin County stores and 25 in the Bay Area.
Commercial Real Estate: Big 5 to move from Coddingtown Mall

May 31st, 2010

Whole Foods resumes Coddingtown store work; Petaluma industrial heats up
Target updates San Rafael store plan ahead of April deadline

April 2nd, 2010

SAN RAFAEL — Up against a mid-April deadline to submit an amended project application for its planned 137,000-square-foot store in Shoreline Center, Target Corp. on Thursday filed the document with three minor changes. The retailer wants to open the store by March 2012 and expects to employ 250 to 300 people, mostly from the surrounding area of the city.
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.
Group sues Petaluma over approval of Regency shopping center

March 12th, 2010

PETALUMA — A group opposed to the East Washington Place regional shopping center project has sued the city of Petaluma, asking for the City Council’s early February project approvals to be set aside and a new round of environmental-impact analysis be conducted because of alleged lapses in following the California Environmental Quality Act.