Biz Journals
- Portland public transportation expert warns of 'death spiral' as Trump eyes billions in cuts
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 05:53 PMRidership has plummeted. Competition is mounting. President Donald Trump is calling for cuts. In short, it's a bad time for public transit in America.
To be clear, the nation's rails, subways and buses are in the White House's crosshairs.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Caltrain plans major service disruptions
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 05:57 PMCaltrain is taking advantage of the end of the San Francisco Giants’ season to execute the commuter rail system’s largest service disruption connected to its $1.9 billion electrification project.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Property owners blame CSX for flooding in Hurricane Florence lawsuit
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 06:05 PMThe lead plaintiffs recount the devastating flooding that damaged their community in the days following the storm.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How NM small companies tap into business growth help
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 04:44 PMThe Small Business Association has several programs that help small businesses win federal contracts.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Orlando Health and Lakeland Regional Health to end affiliation
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 04:46 PMOrlando Health and Lakeland Regional Health will part ways after almost a year of affiliation.
Lakeland Regional announced it would be separating from the Orlando nonprofit health care provider by Sept.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- CPS Energy puts HQ, other downtown property on market
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 04:50 PMCPS Energy is putting several downtown properties, including its headquarters, up for sale and has chosen a real estate company to market them.
CPS Energy's board voted Monday afternoon to classify several properties as surplus.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 520K SF plastic resins facility in Cedar Port Industrial Park begins construction
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 04:59 PMBaytown-based Plastic Bagging & Packaging Inc. is getting an additional facility in Cedar Port Industrial Park.
PBP currently is on 68 acres at 515 E. Grand Parkway S. in Baytown, and the new facility is being constructed adjacent to the company’s existing building.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Cool Spaces: How Dealer Spike celebrates 'Beer:30' (and Cold Brew Monday)
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 03:45 PMTalk about creating a place where people enjoy hitting the office.
Dealer Spike's new Wilsonville spot, which opened in May, is comfortable, functional and, in its locale surrounded by a forest, healthy for workers' physical and psychological well-beings.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Disney workshop worth the time, money, Holloway says
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 03:49 PMThis will be the third year the Disney Institute has put on a workshop in Wichita.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UNLOCKED: Announcing the 2018 Innovation & Enterprise Award winners
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 03:52 PMThe Wichita Business Journal will recognize 24 companies and one individual in four categories in the 2018 Innovation and Enterprise Awards.
This is the second year, as a combined program, for the Innovation and Enterprise Awards.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Apple is curbing sex, violence and profanity in TV shows
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 05:57 PMApple Inc.’s forthcoming digital video platform will look more like NBC than HBO, as CEO Tim Cook has ixnayed sex, violence and profanity in content developed for the computer giant.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Chicago firm working on two West Sac Bridge District projects
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 05:59 PMChicago-based developer CA Ventures is going out west — to West Sacramento, specifically.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Three retailers may join The Corridor in Brookfield
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 06:07 PMThree new retailers may be headed to The Corridor in Brookfield.
Owned by commercial real estate developer Irgens, The Corridor is located along Interstate 94. Bluemound Road borders the project to the north, and Calhoun Road runs along its east side.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - List Extra: The five fastest-growing oil and gas companies in Colorado, and where they're drilling
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 04:45 PMAs local communities in Colorado last year waged battle over who should be able to regulate oil and gas operations within their borders, the state's largest oil and gas companies demonstrated significant growth.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - CareWorks Tech replaces leadership team, sees growth by doing less
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 04:47 PMCareWorks Tech has grown customers and staff this year by narrowing its services under a new leadership team.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - This week's Bay Area IPO bonanza expected to kick off with SurveyMonkey tomorrow
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 04:53 PMSVMK Inc., the parent company of SurveyMonkey, is expected to price the next big tech IPO from the Bay Area on Tuesday.
The San Mateo-based online survey business hopes to raise up to $171 million in an offering that could give it a market cap of around $1.4 billion if it hits the top of its range and underwriters buy up all the shares allotted to them.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How KC lured two French natives to buy Westport Café
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 03:44 PMWestport Café owners Romain Monnoyeur and Kevin Mouhot share why they left France for Kansas City and what it’s been like so far.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - MLG Capital preps to open fourth real estate investment fund
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 03:46 PMMLG Capital in Brookfield at the start of October is launching a fourth investment fund to acquire and manage real estate.
The local real estate firm also is closing out its third private investment fund, which is expected to raise more than $135 million in equity from investors.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Despite JEA's plea, Plant Vogtle owners vote to continue project
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 03:51 PMThe board of MEAG Power voted unanimously Monday to continue construction of Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4, a major blow to JEA's attempt to cap its ballooning financial obligations to the construction of a nuclear power plant in Georgia that is years behind schedule and billions over budget.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Milwaukee baker closes cake shop to create products for Sendik's
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 03:52 PMThe proprietor of a Milwaukee bakery closed her doors to begin a job baking for Sendik's Food Markets.
Gloria De Angelo said she opened Gloria’s Cake Shop and Cafe on National Avenue about four years ago.
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- Caltrain plans major weekend service disruptions for electrification work
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 05:54 PMCaltrain is taking advantage of the end of the San Francisco Giants’ season to execute the commuter rail system’s largest service disruption connected to its $1.9 billion electrification project.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sacramento company wins auction for assets of sorghum seed developer
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 06:01 PMSacramento-based S&W Seed Co.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Housing commission gets quorum, but won't issue tax credits
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 06:06 PMMissouri Gov. Mike Parson on Monday made two appointments to the body that doles out low-income housing tax credits, giving it a quorum, but said the Missouri Housing Development Commission won't act on state tax credits until the General Assembly enacts reforms.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 2018 C-Suite Awards: Bret Piatt
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 04:46 PMUnder Piatt's leadership, Jungle Disk acquired two new services: SafetyNet, a Quickbooks online backup software; and TeamPassword for password management.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Snoop Dogg, Kevin Durant join $3M Bend cannabis delivery service fund raise
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 04:47 PMDutchie just launched this year.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - CalPERS names former employee as new chief investment officer
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 04:57 PMYu Ben Meng will return to the California Public Employees’ Retirement System to be its new chief investment officer.
Meng, a United States citizen born in China, will oversee the CalPERS investment office with nearly 400 employees.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mark Olson, Minnesota banker and former Federal Reserve board member, dies
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 03:44 PMMark Olson, who led Security State Bank in Fergus Falls before taking on a national role as a U.S. Federal Reserve board member and president of the American Bankers Association, has died at age 75.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Huttig Building Products names CFO
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 03:47 PMHuttig Building Products (Nasdaq: HBP) named Philip Keipp as vice president and CFO, effective Monday.
Keipp has served as a senior financial consultant to the company since Aug. 6 this year.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Silver Diner in Columbia to open Wednesday for dinner with less chrome, more menu options
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 03:51 PMSilver Diner will open its new Columbia location for dinner Wednesday with an upgraded design and a fresh-focused menu.
The new restaurant at 8250 Gateway Overlook Drive will sport a new look for the 29-year-old chain as it seeks to reimagine the classic 1950s diner in the year 2018.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- CenterState buys Atlanta bank's mortgage team
Monday - 09/24/2018 - 02:44 PMCenterState Bank Corp. (NASDAQ: CSFL) continues to dive deeper into Georgia, buying a mortgage team from Atlanta-based State Bank Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: STBZ).
Florida-based CenterState said Monday that the acquisition includes "the mortgage loan pipeline associated with the mortgage business" as well as the assumption of leases where the mortgage professionals were working.
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