North Bay Business Journal

TLCD Architecture: ‘Fit Force’ sets a healthy tone

 SANTA ROSA – At TLCD Architecture, company leaders encourage employees to embrace social responsibility with genuine care for people, community and sustainable principles. This commitment is reflected in a work environment that supports healthy choices in food, exercise, flexible hours and a sense of wellness — principles that carry over into a variety of practical [...]

Napa County planning $76 million health and human services project

NAPA –Napa County is moving along its plan to renovate the aging Health and Human Services Agency Department, a $76 million project that will rebuild the Old Sonoma Road campus with phased development over a span of 20 years.

Corporate wellness taking center stage

NORTH BAY — As wellness emerges as a key business strategy in containing health care costs, questions often arise on what, exactly, the term means — what works for one company or one industry won’t necessarily work for another, and how do you define wellness to employees? More importantly, how do you get a staff to fully buy-in to the concept?

Business Journal names Healthiest Companies award winners

NORTH BAY — The Business Journal selected recipients for its inaugural Healthiest Companies Recognition Awards with winners to be honored at the North Bay Business Journal’s 2011 Health Care Conference.

Profiles of the winners will appear in a special publication supplementing the Nov. 28 issue, and winners will be honored at the Business Journal’s annual Health Care Conference on Nov. 30 at the Hyatt Vineyard Creek in Santa Rosa.

Hospital projects highlight local adoption of BIM

NORTH BAY — In less than a decade, building information modeling (BIM) has become a major construction simulation and visualization process, and it’s being employed heavily on two large hospital projects now under construction in North Bay counties.

Project profiles: DeTurk Round Barn, Santa Rosa; Morimoto, Florence restaurants, Napa

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.

College of Marin board OKs plan for new academic center

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.

Wellness programs draw more interest

SANTA ROSA – Growing numbers of employers of all sizes in the North Bay are embracing wellness programs for their employees. A recent survey of commercial insurance carriers by the Business Journal revealed a common theme of business clients seeking information or actively developing wellness programs both to manage employee health care costs and prepare for the impact of health care reform.

Construction: $26 million Roseland school gets funds

Also: Tracking the Target proposals; new phase for Napa Gateway

Health Care: Sutter breaks ground for hospital

Also: Kaiser prepares to unveil tower; Napa’s Queen in expansion

Education: Former Pennsylvania educator to lead Napa Valley College

Mendocino College library under way; Schools Plus sets Oct. 23 fundraiser

Contractors have seen the best and the worst in a battered industry

The 2010 Spotlight on Leaders in Contracting on pages 6 to 13 illuminates how top general and specialty contractors have remained on top as a number of sectors of the construction industry have contracted significantly in the past four years.

Luther Burbank Savings to take ex-Traverso’s site

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.

2010 Forty Under 40: The winners

The winners of the Business Journal’s fourth-annual Forty under 40 awards were selected from more than 75 nominees and represent new honorees not previously chosen in 2007, 2008 or 2009.

Partners hope to transform bland AT&T structure into glass beauty

SANTA ROSA — The five-story vacant AT&T telecommunications switching building in the heart of the downtown area could become a 10-story glass-skinned work of modern art with apartments, offices, museum and restaurant under a proposal city redevelopment officials are considering.

$133.8 million bond bears fruit at Napa Valley College

Napa Valley College has a number of building projects in the works thanks to the $133.8 million Measure N bond passed by the community in 2002.

Construction: Building industry monitoring Obama’s order on union labor

Construction trade organizations are watching closely how President Obama’s Feb. 6 executive order on project labor agreements, or PLAs, on federally funded construction projects larger than $25 million will be implemented with the pending economic-stimulus package. The order rescinded a Bush administration ban on such arrangements.