North Bay Business Journal

  • Marin County retail: Shopping center tenants upgrade, backfill vacancies

    March 14th, 2011

    There will be a continued upgrading of tenancies and back-filling of vacancies at shopping centers throughout the county. First-tier shopping centers are posting rental rate growth and will continue to do so throughout the year. Second-tier centers will remain flat or experience limited rental growth and third-tier centers will continue to face downward pressure on rents.

  • Wellness programs draw more interest

    February 14th, 2011

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • New project profiles: Whole Foods-anchored mixed-use Millworks in Novato, Kaiser replacement hospital in Vallejo

    March 22nd, 2010

    (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.)

  • Construction: Whole Foods finishing Marin, to start Santa Rosa

    February 15th, 2010

    Also: Yountville’s Bardessono earns top LEED award

  • Construction: SMART railcar designer leases office; Whole Foods sets October opening

    December 21st, 2009

    LTK Engineering Services (www.ltk.com), which recently won the contract with Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit District (www.sonomamarintrain.org) to design specifications for commuter cars on the forthcoming line from Cloverdale to Larkspur, leased office space in the same Santa Rosa building as the district’s planned project office. … Santa Rosa-based engineering and environmental consulting firm Winzler & Kelly acquired Norris-Repke, a municipal and civil engineering and construction management firm with offices in Santa Ana and Moreno Valley. … Whole Foods Market plans to solicit bids in January for interior improvements of its store in Coddingtown mall in Santa Rosa, according to Glen Moon, vice president of store development for the Austin-based grocery chain. … Associated General Contractors of America asserts that the data collected starting earlier this year under the mandatory reporting of nitrogen oxide (NOX) and soot (PM) emissions from off-road diesel equipment shows that the California Air Resources Board’s original 2000 estimate overstated emissions projections for 2009 by nearly 40 percent. … Clendenen Vineyard Management obtained an SBA loan through Wells Fargo Bank to build a 7,000-square-foot shop and offices at 555 Westside Road near Healdsburg, the site of a future animal shelter as well as a wine warehouse and tasting room. … Melvin and Karen Hahn decided to wind down their Hahn’s Window Center business at 365 Blodgett St. in Cotati after 23 years in business as home construction ebbed and retire to Oregon. San Rafael-based Conservation Corps North Bay, formerly Marin Conservation Corps (www.conservationcorpsnorthbay.org), purchased the 12,100-square-foot building for $1.69 million, backed by state bond money. … The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors postponed until Jan. 12 its deliberation on The Dutra Group’s proposed asphalt plant along the Petaluma River just south of the city to give the U.S. Coast Guard time to look into commercial and recreational traffic on the river. … Principal architects Colin Russell and Larry Davis, who started Russell & Davis Architects of San Rafael in 1998, are parting ways “amicably.”

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