San Francisco Business Times articles from October 2001

San Francisco Business Times archives from October 2001

Builder drives through parking project.(/Millenium Partners in negotiations with the San Francisco Development Agency)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Millennium wheels, deals for $35M garage in space-starved S.F. Developer Millennium Partners is close to gaining fights to build a large parking garage on Mission Street in return for nearly $12 million in contributions to the city and...

Cabbies cry: Give us a break.(Taxi companies reduce "gate fee")(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Fee cut eases economic bumps Taxi companies are downshifting the daily fee they charge drivers, hoping to rev up Bay Area cabbies who have seen take-home pay disappear in a pot-hole-pocked economy. Yellow Cab Co., operating the largest...

Bay Area nonprofits grapple for dollars.(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Bay Area nonprofits are anxiously watching massive Sept. 11 relief efforts, worrying-that donors will shift their attention away from local needs, while hoping the appeals will spur widespread giving. "There is a fear that people will write...

State phone regulators slam PacBell.(Public Utilities Commission moves to reduce prices the phone company charges competitors to use parts of its network)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... In a decision that could dramatically alter the landscape for local telephone competition, the California Public Utilities Commission is moving to drop the prices Pacific Bell charges competitors to use pieces of its network. The ruling is...

Fears that tourism will set in East.(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Terror's travel toll will hurt us, too, say East Bay officials San Francisco's travel troubles have grabbed the headlines, but East Bay officials say they too have a lot to lose. "Not many people recognize the importance of travel in...

Retailers cheer airport's move to take off rents.(San Francisco International Airport)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... San Francisco Airport Director John Marlin this week agreed to grant an across-the-board rent reduction to hard-pressed airport merchants -- a move that could ultimately cost the city millions of dollars. "The director has agreed to put...

Legal eagles seek a safer roost.(Lawyers seek jobs with traditional firms)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Dot-com demise turns traditional firms from fusty to feisty It's once again hip to be a legal world traditionalist With costs snipped at once high-flying law firms that concentrated on tech clients, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP...

Real estate executive is filling his creative space.(includes, Alan Collenette authors poem)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Illustrious San Francisco brokerage executive Alan Collenette is a man of many fine properties -- and not all of them have to do with real estate. Collenette's past exploits include a stint in his youth as a promoter of rock bands in early...

Rise & Fall.
October 5, 2001... A barometer of the region's movers, shakers and fakers George Shaheen OK, it ain't Accenture, it ain't even Webvan, but it's a step up from nowheresville. Ex-consulting potentate Shaheen has been laying very low since leaping from the...

Unappetizing economy starves out S.F. eateries.(San Francisco, Montage, Splendido's, Gabbiano's Restaurant and Oyster Cafe)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... San Francisco restaurants rattled by the economic slump and a drop-off in diners following the Sept. 11 tragedies are shutting their doors to an inhospitable climate. Three San Francisco establishments have become casualties in recent...

Very Visa moves quietly on campus expansion.(Visa International plans construction of fourth building at Foster City campus)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Visa International plans to start construction of a fourth building -- a six-story, 199,404-square-foot mirror of a structure built nearly two years ago -- in the spring at its Foster City campus. But the typically low-key credit card...

Brown & Toland chases extra profits with PPOs.(preferred provider organizations)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Seeking a bigger cut of the health-care pie, San Francisco's largest doctor group is changing its HMO focus to pursue PPO contracts. Historically, Brown & Toland has done 100 percent of its business with HMO plans, under which doctors...

CHW gives away 700 IT workers in Perot deal.(Catholic Healthcare West)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Sixty days after signing a 10-year, $600 million information technology outsourcing deal with Dallas-based Perot Systems, Catholic Healthcare West now sees its computing future. The July deal could be a key piece of a $300 million...

Viva Zapatos! Spanish footware retailer hopes to be happy Camper in San Francisco.(new store on Grant Avenue)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... One of Spain's hottest fashion exports, hip shoe designer Camper, will plant its first footprint on the West Coast with a new store on San Francisco's Grant Avenue. The quixotic privately held company, known for its hot-selling bowling...

San Francisco hoteliers look to locals to fill rooms.(San Francisco, California)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 5, 2001... San Francisco hoteliers are cutting costs and refocusing their marketing campaigns in an attempt to fill up the thousands of rooms that have gone vacant since Sept. 11. While hotels are typically cagey about vacancy rates, experts say...

ExecutiveProfile: REGGIE CHUN.(San Francisco market president, Bank of America)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... RESUME Name: Reggie Chun. Title: San Francisco market president. Also, national middle-market treasury management executive, in charge of helping companies with annual sales up to $500 million manage their treasury operations. ...

Future looks bright for San Francisco tenants as third-quarter rents fall.(San Francisco, California, third quarter 2001)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 5, 2001... With vacancies rising, how far have San Francisco rents actually fallen? The average rental rate in the third quarter was around $40 per square foot for mainly financial district and some South of Market space, according to a CRESA...

Developers want out of office plan.(TMG Partners, Regis Homes)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 5, 2001... Developers TMG Partners and Regis Homes will ask the city of San Bruno for the right to scrap the office element of its $200 million Crossing project and replace it with apartments. TMG wants permission to build housing on a site planned...

Soft condo market can't scare away Crescent Heights.(condominium developer Crescent Heights purchase land in San Francisco, California)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 5, 2001... Despite the economic downtown turn and fears of an overbuilt condominium market, New York condominium developer Crescent Heights paid $28 million on Sept. 6 for a site at First and Folsom streets and plans to build 342 luxury for-sale units,...

San Francisco feels a little empty these days.(office building vacancy rates up in San Francisco, California)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 5, 2001... Third-quarter vacancy numbers are in, and as veteran broker Darin Bosch of CB Richard Ellis Inc. says, "It's not a pretty picture." According to CB's numbers, San Francisco citywide vacancy is 12.9 percent. There is 6.1 million square feet...

NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART.(office space available at 44 Montgomery St.)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Owners of 44 Montgomery St. in San Francisco are willing to pay brokers extra commissions of up to $2 per square foot per year for up to a five-year period if they can step up to the plate and fill up about 37,770 square feet of office space....

Cushman & Wakefield.(receives "several" offers)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Despite a Sept. 12 due date for bids (one day after the terrorist attacks), a broker close to the deal said Cushman & Wakefield 333 Bush St. received "several" offers. The question now is were they good enough for seller TMW.

ROK Properties Inc.(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... 680 Second St. is back on the market. ROK Properties Inc. has recaptured the space from dot-com Innoventry, which is going out of business. Rent will be in the $30s per square foot triple net, according to leasing director Michael Karasik.

Colliers International.(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Colliers International recently helped close a spate of commercial real estate leases, including a 10-year, $3.4 million deal to Electronic Technology Systems at 3526 Investment Boulevard in Hayward. That lease includes an...

Bistro Burger.(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... In San Francisco, Colliers brokered an eight-year sublease for a new Bistro Burger location at 201 Mission St., the former site of Koo Koo Roo's. The cult-status burger joint now has two San Francisco locations in the financial district,...

Opus West Corp.(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... In a sign that new development is not quite dead yet, Opus West Corp. recently tilted up the walls of the third and fourth industrial buildings at its Marathon Business Center in Livermore. The center is a six-building, 316,000-square-foot...

F-B Realty Corp.(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... The building housing a Walgreens and 24-Hour Fitness at 2145 Market St. in San Francisco sold at the end of August for $13.2 million. Paul Souza of Arroyo & Coates represented the seller, F-B Realty Corp. of San Francisco and Mark Feldman...

VC firms snatch up entrepreneurs.(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Venture firms are turning to entrepreneurs with extensive experience to screen new opportunities and assist portfolio companies through these difficult times. For example, DCM, formerly. Doll Capital Management, has hired serial...

Schwab takes aim at branch offices in coming round of cuts.(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Charles Schwab Corp. will close branch offices in its second round of cost cuffing. "We're not going to leave any markets," said Schwab spokesman Glen Mathison." The number of branches, too, may remain unchanged, Mathison said. ...

Inside Traders.(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Inside Traders A look at selling of shares by Bay Area executives Warren Pickert President Cholestech Corp. Shares sold: 200,000 Were shares sold options? No Options exercised price ...

Biometrics force firms to fully face the truth.(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... There's money in those eyes, noses and fingertips -- maybe. InnoVentry Corp., a Wells Fargo & Co. joint venture with Cash America, Diebold Inc. and Capital One that used face-recognition technology to cash checks, closed its doors (at least...

Angel investors band together in devilish times.(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Angel groups and investment funds continue to attract and retain members as wealthy investors band together in difficult times. More angels are working to increase deal flow, screen potential investments and reduce risk. To be certain, the...

Stock optimist sees hope in marquee names.(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... When the stock market resumed trading after the Sept. 11 attacks and the Dow Jones Industrial Average posted its single worst one-week point decline since the Great Depression, I got two pieces of email from the folks at E-Trade. The first...

Air Jordan's return sets Warriors sales aloft.(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Michael Jordan's re-return to the NBA is moving Golden State Warriors ticket sales. The Warriors sold more than 100 new full-season ticket packages and 600 "mini-plans" the week of Sept. 24, when Jordan officially announced his plan to...

Account win keeps the wolf from Hill, Holliday's door.(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Hill, Holliday/San Francisco, the ad agency that until a few weeks ago was called GMO Hill/Holliday, has hauled in a new piece of business from Red Roof Inns. Hill, Holiday has not had a new account in a while and was moved to much smaller...

Sutter plays risky game with nursing contracts.(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Sutter Health's four hospitals in the East Bay--Alta Bates Summit in Berkeley and Oakland, Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, and now Sutter Solano in Vallejo -- will all have their nursing contracts expire or be re-opened for negotiation at...

Financial district restaurant closes as firms tighten belts.(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... The carnage usually performed by customers at the tables of some of San Francisco's established restaurants is now happening to the restaurants themselves as a Weakening economy and a national tragedy strips many diners of their appetites. ...

Livermore lab gets gung-ho.(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researches chemical and biological warfare threats)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Scientists respond to chemical, biological threats by stepping up pace of research From nucleic acid analyzers to gel that neutralizes the effects from biological and chemical weapons, anti-terrorist tools at Lawrence Livermore National...

One on One.(interview with Steven Berkowitz of Ask Jeeves Inc.)(Brief Article)(Interview)
October 5, 2001... Berkowitz Search for perfect product On Sept. 11, Ask Jeeves Inc. said it acquired Teoma Technologies Inc., a fledgling company that's gotten recognition for its search engine technology. Though the acquisition of the Piscataway,...

Salesforce.com switches from small fry to big guy.(will target larger firms)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Salesforce.com wants to play with bigger boys. After two years of marketing itself as the salesforce automation solution for small companies, the San Francisco-based company is now going after companies in the 5,000-to 10,000-user range....

The next revolution.(genetic services)(Industry Overview)
October 5, 2001... Advances in genetic medicine could catch front-line doctors off guard When Dr. Ronald Bachman started the genetics department at Kaiser Permanente in 1968, he squeezed a half day per week out of his pediatrics practice to run it. Then he...

Quiet menace: COBRA's popularity may hike rates.(health care insurance for laid -off employees costs money)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... An expected increase in the number of COBRA healthcare users, a result of the Bay Area's waves of layoffs this year, will strike at companies' already-rising health insurance rates, experts believe. COBRA, a 15-year-old federal law,...

Biotech's decoy drug cuts heart surgery's failure rate.(being developed by Corgentech Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... It is hard to trick the body. But Palo Alto-based Corgentech's new decoy drug can fool the cells of a transplanted artery into accepting their new location, increasing the odds for the success of coronary or peripheral artery bypass...

Largest biotech patent holders.(in San Francisco area)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 5, 2001... Incyte Genomics, a company that designs genomic databases used by researchers probing the molecular element of disease, tops this week's first-ever List of the Largest Biotech Patent Holders in the Bay Area. The Palo Alto-based company was...

Largest Biotech Patent Holders in the Bay Area.(table; San Francisco Bay area)(Statistical Data Included)
October 5, 2001... Largest Biotech Patent Holders in the Bay Area Company Address Patents Phone/fax assigned Rank Web site in 2000 1 Incyte Genomics...

Economic stimulus bill may include help for small business.(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Small businesses could get tax breaks ranging from increased expensing limits to faster depreciation for computers and software as part of an economic stimulus pack age under consideration by Congress. Lobbying activity, which was put on...

In the clear.(Nature's Cure offers anti-acne medication)(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
October 5, 2001... Mass market is familiar territory for former Nestle' manager turned entrepreneur A my Baker wants the boy and girl next door pimple-free and smiling naturally. "We're really about solving people's problems," Baker says. Baker is...

EntrepreneurProfile: DEBRA RHEINISCH.(founder of Rheinisch Medical Management Inc.)(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
October 5, 2001... RESUME Name: Debra Rheinisch. Title: President and CEO. Company: Rheinisch Medical Management Inc., in San Ramon; billing, coding, reimbursement; managed care and practice management operations for physicians, clinics and...

Bay Area People.(various hirings and promotions in the San Francisco Bay area)
October 5, 2001... BANKING/FINANCE Menlo Park-based venture capital firm Mayfield named Sandeep Johri executive-in-residence. Johri is founder and chairman of security infrastructure software company Oblix. He will continue to serve as Oblix's chairman. ...

Supes must forgive church project for providing housing.(San Francisco supervisors had better approve plans for new housing development)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
October 5, 2001... Put-up or shut-up time approaching San Francisco's do-little supervisors. Their whispered platitudes about building more housing have been drowned out since November's election by the shout of their actions: to stamp out new housing at...

Reality intrudes on simple pleasures.(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Like a lot of Americans, I find myself longing for the good old days, a distance now measured n weeks or months instead of years or decades. I have no desire to return to the '90s, '80s or '70s, which would require a whole new wardrobe and...

Don't seek government magic to transform economy.(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... I continue to be amazed how many writers in business publications have virtually no understanding of how markets and economies work. In your Aug. 31-Sept 6 issue, guest writer Dan Cook is frustrated that President Bush doesn't step in...

Let our love of cities overcome fear of high-profile places.(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... The terrorists chose their Sept. 11 targets carefully, their brutal acts calculated to cause maximum destruction to our way of life. By attacking the tallest buildings in America's largest city they expressed contempt not just for "world...

ATHOME FILES CHAPTER 11.(ExciteAtHome selss assets and related services to AT and T Corp.)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Redwood City-based ExciteAtHome agreed to sell essentially all of its broadband Internet access business assets and related services to cable giant AT&T, which already holds a stake in the company, for $307 million in cash. The company -- led...

PUC REJECTS STATE BOND PLAN.(Public Utilities Commission)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... In a 4-1 vote, the California Public Utilities Commission rejected a measure to allow the sale of more than $12 billion in bonds to pay for power purchased with tax dollars. Commission President Loretta Lynch was joined by members Henry Duque,...

IVP CLOSES $225 MILLION FUND.(Institutional Venture Partners)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Institutional Venture Partners of Menlo Park closed a $225 million fund focused on providing expansion capital to information technology companies. IVP, now with $1.3 billion in capital under management, plans to invest approximately 75 percent...

SFO RUNWAY PROGRAM MOVING FORWARD.(San Francisco International Airport)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... San Francisco International Airport will pursue its long-term runway modernization program despite getting hit by the one-two punch of a sagging economy and the terrorist attacks, SFO Director John Martin said this week. Airport officials have...

VANGUARD GETS FEDERAL AID INSTALLMENT.(Vanguard Airlines Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Vanguard Airlines, which counts San Francisco investment banker Bill Hambrecht and a group connected to San Francisco-based. Pegasus Aviation among its largest shareholders, received $4.5 million as the first installment of federal aid under...

COSINE CUTS 17 PERCENT.(CoSine Communications Inc. reduces workforce)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 5, 2001... Redwood City-based CoSine Communications Inc. reduced its workforce by 14 percent as part of an effort to reduce its third-quarter expenses by $8.5 million, or 25 percent, over the prior quarter. The layoffs will affect direct sales staff in...

DANTZ ACQUIRES SEATTLE SOFTWARE FIRM.(Dantz Development Corp., Viathan Corp.)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Orinda-based Dantz Development Corp., a backup storage software firm, has acquired Seattle-based Viathan Corp. for an undisclosed sum. Viathan develops storage virtualization software, which helps businesses manage their data across their...

PUBLICIS SCOOPS UP S.F. MARKETING FIRM.(Publicis Groupe S.A. acquires FusionDM)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... A U.S. unit of French advertising conglomerate Publicis Groupe S.A. acquired San Francisco-based FusionDM, an interactive and direct response agency, for an undisclosed sum. Publicis, which also owns San Francisco advertising agency Publicis &...

THIRDAGE SPUTS WITH MYFAMILY.(Management team and private investors buy back the company's assets)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... San Francisco-based ThirdAge Inc., an online media company focused on baby boomers, said Monday that founder Mary Furlong, along its management team and private equity investors, have bought back the company's assets from MyFamily.com, which...

SIEBEL ACQUIRES NQUIRE SOFTWARE.(Siebel Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... San Mateo-based Siebel Systems Inc., a business software provider, said Monday it agreed to acquire nQuire Software Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Minneapolis, Minn.-based nQuire develops business analytics software, which allows companies to...

MOBILEWAY RAISES $27 MILLION.(in second round of financing)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... San Ramon-based MobileWay Inc., a developer of wireless technology, raised $27 million in its second round of financing. Mayfield led the round, which also included investments by 3i, Investcorp, Citigroup and Vertex Management. The investment...

RESERVE REAPPOINTS REGIONAL DIRECTORS.(Federal Reserve Board, Nelson Rising, George Scalise)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... The Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C., reappointed Nelson Rising as chairman of the San Francisco Federal Reserve, and renamed George Scalise deputy chairman. Rising is chairman and CEO of Catellus Development Corp. of San Francisco and...

INVISION SCORES EXPLOSIVES TECH SALE.(InVision Technologies Inc. contracted by El Al Israel Airlines for explosives detectors)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 5, 2001... Newark-based InVision Technologies Inc., a developer of explosives detection technology, said received an order valued at approximately $2 million for two CTX 5500DS Explosive Detection Systems (EDS) and related services from E1 A1 Israel...

PANASAS RAISES $25.4M.(Panasas Inc.)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 5, 2001... Fremont-based storage company Panasas Inc. secured $25.4 million in additional funding in its latest round, led by Carlyle Venture Partners' $10 million infusion. Goldman Sachs and Mohr Davidow Ventures also participated in the funding round....

CHEVRON DELISTING FROM LONDON EXCHANGE.(Chevron Corp.)
October 5, 2001... Chevron Corp. will delist its common stock from the London Stock Exchange as of Oct. 25. Chevron, which expects to complete its $44 billion merger with Texaco Inc. next month, will continue to list its common stock on the Pacific Exchange in...

WEBVAN'S SHAHEEN JOINS CLOSEDLOOP.(George Shaheen joins Closedloop Solutions Inc. board of directors)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Former Webvan CEO and Chairman George Shaheen, who has kept a low profile since jumping ship just months before the the company docked in bankruptcy court, has popped up in the Bay Area business world again. Redwood City-based Closedloop...

Corrections & Amplifications.(Correction Notice)
October 5, 2001... A story in the Sept. 14-20 issue incorrectly stated that Ellerbe Becket was one of three architectural and design firms that presented plans for a new stadium to the San Francisco 49ers.

E-TRADE INVITES INVESTMENTS.(E-Trade Group offers new service)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 5, 2001... Menlo Park's E-Trade Group's securities unit has introduced stock baskets. The service allows E-Trade customers to buy and trade portfolios of individual securities in dollar amounts rather than by number of shares. The service requires a...

COMERICA RAISES RAG OVER IMPERIAL.(Comerica Bank merger with Imperial Bank nearly complete)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... The Imperial Bank name is rolling into history as the merger with Detroit's Comerica Bank nears final completion this week. One aspect of the merger affecting the Bay Area is Imperial's emerging growth division -- one of Silicon Valley...

A'S DREAM OF DOWNTOWN.(Oakland Athletics baseball team to consider stadium in downtown San Francisco, California)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Now that talk of the Oakland A's being sold or moving to Santa Clara has simmered down, the franchise is more willing to talk about its East Bay future. The team's "pipe dream" is a downtown stadium surrounded by retail, David Alioto, the...

GOODBY GOES BAD BOY.(Jeff Goodby of Goodby, Silverstein and Partners)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... It takes a lot to rile the normally affable and peace-loving Jeff Goodby, cofounder and co-creative director of Goodby Silverstein & Partners, the legendary creators of the "Got Milk?" campaign. But Goodby sent out an angry email last week...

PLANET HOLLYWOOD'S FINAL ACT.(San Francisco, California theme restaurant closes)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... In case you hadn't noticed, San Francisco's Planet Hollywood theme restaurant was unceremoniously shut a few weeks ago after nearly six years at the Stockton location. The unprofitable Florida parent company had filed for bankruptcy in 1999.

CYGNUS SCORES GRANT CASH.(Cygnus Inc. receives grant from National Institutes of Health)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... Going from swoon to swan, Redwood City-based biotech Cygnus Inc. was the recipient of a $750,000 grant from the National Institute of Health. The biotech's grant money, directed from the NIH's Small Business Innovative Research Grants for...

MIXED BAG FOR HOTEL SALES.(San Francisco, California hotel market)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 5, 2001... Bucking the slowing economy, the number of hotel sales in the Bay Area rose for the first half of 2001. By far, the highlight was the $41 million purchase of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, the second most expensive purchase statewide, based...

FREE MONEY.(Small Business Innovation Research program to fund research and development)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 5, 2001... Who said there's no good news? The Department of Defense is doling out more than $500 million this year to small tech companies looking to bolster their research and development. The grants, awarded through the Small Business Innovation...

SCHLEPPING SERVERS.(Sun Microsystems delivers computers to customers affected by terrorist attacks on World Trade Center)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... No air shipments. No computers. No problem. When Sun Microsystems discovered customers Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs and others once located at the World Trade Center needed to be working again in less than a week, CEO Scott...

The Lucky Tie.(poem, post-terrorist attacks on U.S.)(Brief Article)
October 5, 2001... A poem of remembrance In a house in a New Jersey suburb, the dad turns the kitchen light on, cranks the dial on the new coffee-maker all the way over to "strong." On the front porch he stoops for the paper this...

Oakland floats $85 million giveaway.(incentives to lure retailers )
October 12, 2001... City officials pitch package of incentives to lure retailers Oakland economic development officials are calling for the city to pour up to $85 million in public subsidies into the massive Uptown redevelopment project and elsewhere in a bid...

Housing bill pressures cities.(220,000 new homes needed each year until 2020)(Statistical Data Included)
October 12, 2001... Build it or lose transport lunds Bay Area cities could pay millions of dollars in fines for failing to create new housing, if a California Senate bill becomes law. The state has experienced a severe housing shortage in recent years,...

Bonds strikes out on endorsement deals.(Barry Bonds)(Brief Article)
October 12, 2001... Seventy-three home runs has taken Barry Bonds little further than Disney World. Despite a record-breaking season and chants of "Barry! Barry!" in ballparks across the nation, Bonds is striking out on endorsement deals. So far. The...

Battered VCs show new signs of life.(venture capitalists)(Brief Article)
October 12, 2001... Undaunted by their poorest returns in years, venture capitalists are laying the groundwork for future activity, with several firms raising capital, adding partners and opening offices. Venture capitalists say that even amid the economic...