Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA) articles from August 2007

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA) archives from August 2007

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Calif., business briefs column.(Column)
August 30, 2007... Aug. 30--SAN BERNARDINO -- SPECIALLY FOR SENIORS: Cindy Ault of Teel & Teel and Associates Real Estate Brokerage has been awarded the national "Seniors Real Estate Specialist" designation by the Seniors Real Estate Specialist Council of the...

Home starts plunge.
August 29, 2007... Byline: Michael Rappaport Aug. 29--Housing starts in the Inland Empire have plummeted in 2007 and are down nearly 50 percent for the year to date. Numbers released this week by the California Building Industry Association show the...

Area home prices fall.
August 28, 2007... Byline: Michael Rappaport Aug. 28--The news was worse for homeowners in the High Desert and the Inland Empire than anywhere else in California on Monday when the California Association of Realtors released its sales and price numbers for...

West 2nd Street project approved.
August 24, 2007... Byline: Monica Rodriguez Aug. 24--POMONA -- A project that will bring hundreds of new residents to a portion of West Second Street was approved by planning commissioners on Thursday. The commission voted 5-1 for the project with...

Seeking a smaller Wal-Mart.
August 24, 2007... Byline: Andrea Bennett Aug. 24--ONTARIO -- The Ontario-Montclair School District Board of Education is asking the city for a smaller Wal-Mart than the one proposed at the northwest corner of Fifth Street and Mountain Avenue. In a...

Cleanup of contaminated site questioned.
August 23, 2007... Byline: Shelli DeRobertis Aug. 23--CHINO -- Residents once again questioned state and county officials over how they will clean up lead- and arsenic-contaminated land on a site selected for a preschool at a public meeting Tuesday. ...

City relaxes massage establishment rules.
August 23, 2007... Byline: Liset Marquez Aug. 23--LA VERNE -- The City Council unanimously approved amendments Monday night to the city's current ordinance regulating massage establishments. One of those amendments loosens the regulations on who can...

Condo plan presented tonight.
August 22, 2007... Byline: Monica Rodriguez Aug. 22--POMONA -- The debate involving a proposed five-story development that would bring more than 200 for-sale condominiums and street-level retail space to West Second Street moves tonight to the Planning...

City to sell land for joint-use sports center.
August 22, 2007... Byline: Liset Marquez Aug. 22--LA VERNE -- The city is one step closer to approving an agreement with the University of La Verne that would bring a joint-use sports complex to the southern portion of the city. The City Council voted...

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Calif., business briefs column.(Column)
August 21, 2007... Aug. 21--ONTARIO, Calif. -- QUALITY ONE BUYS BUILDING FOR $1.3 MILLION: Quality One Engineering, a computer-engineering firm, purchased a 10,140-square-foot industrial building in Ontario for $1.3 million, Grubb & Ellis announced. This...

Labor center seeks funds.
August 20, 2007... Byline: Monica Rodriguez Aug. 20--POMONA -- As staff members strive to make the Pomona Economic Opportunity Center more self-sufficient, they are paying extra attention to objectives such as securing grants and raising funds. The...

High-quality office space surge hits Ontario, Rancho.
August 20, 2007... Byline: Andrea Bennett Aug. 20--The current office boom in Ontario and Rancho Cucamonga doesn't just mean we'll see a lot more suits in these cities in the near future. The explosion of Class A office space in the past few years is...

Area job growth strong.
August 18, 2007... Byline: Michael Rappaport Aug. 18--A superficial look at July job numbers released Friday by the California Employment Development Department might be cause for alarm. The percentage of people unemployed in the two-county area was...

Winery faces $1M suit.
August 17, 2007... Byline: Rod Leveque Aug. 17--RANCHO CUCAMONGA -- An art collector who claims that $1million worth of his paintings were stolen from the Joseph Filippi Winery last year has filed a lawsuit accusing the vintner of lax security. John...

Fear driving slide in local housing market.
August 15, 2007... Byline: Michael Rappaport Aug. 15--It's all about fear. Prices are down, interest rates are low and there are plenty of homes on the market. But sales of homes in the Southland were at their lowest level since 1995, according to...

Water hike in works.
August 15, 2007... Byline: Mark Petix Aug. 15--MIRA LOMA, Calif. -- Facing rising costs and a potential budget shortfall of $5.4 million, the Jurupa Community Services District has proposed a four-year hike in water rates. On Monday, the district's...

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Calif., business briefs column.(Column)
August 14, 2007... Aug. 14--FONTANA, Calif. -- FOOTHILL PROPERTIES OPENS SECOND OFFICE: When Foothill Properties brought the Weichert brand to Southern California in mid-March, President/CEO Steve Yeager announced the company would open three Inland Empire...

Medical center extends service.
August 13, 2007... Byline: Monica Rodriguez Aug. 13--CHINO HILLS, Calif. -- Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center today will begin offering primary care, urgent care and radiology services at a new facility on Chino Avenue at the Crossroads Shopping...

High Desert blooms with new housing.
August 10, 2007... Byline: Michael Rappaport Aug. 10--The new housing market may not be strong, but what there is of it in San Bernardino County is concentrated in the High Desert. That's the word from a study by MarketPointe Realty Advisors, a San...

California Edison plans 50 percent hike in towers for Chino Hills area.
August 9, 2007... Byline: Shelli Derobertis Aug. 09--CHINO HILLS -- The number of power-line towers behind homes on Paseo Del Palacio Street would be increased by 50 percent as a result of Southern California Edison's proposed power-line expansion...

Borrowing guidelines debated.
August 7, 2007... Byline: Michael Rappaport Aug. 7--New guidelines for federally regulated mortgage lenders announced Friday will make loans tougher to get, but those who follow the market disagree on how widespread their effect will be. The...

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Calif., business briefs column.(Column)
August 4, 2007... Aug. 4--ADVATECH PACIFIC HONORED BY AFRL: The Advanced Technology Division of Advatech Pacific Inc. was recently honored by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. The citation...

Concert series a big boost to local charities.
August 2, 2007... Byline: Monica Rodriguez Aug. 2--For about 70 nonprofit organizations, Concerts Under the Stars is much more than a fundraising event in a stunning outdoor setting. For the groups across the Inland Valley and beyond, the events help...