A local food service company that makes dressings, frying oils and sauces for dozens of restaurant chains is relocating its headquarters to Irvine’s Spectrum Terrace, more than doubling its current space in Brea. Ventura Foods, whose portfolio includes brands such as LouAna Cooking Oil and Hidden Valley Ranch, told the Read More
Two skilled nursing facilities and an assisted living property, all in North Orange County, were sold in a pair of separate transactions on April 1. A 130-bed licensed skilled nursing facility and neighboring 73-bed, 77-unit assisted living and memory care property in Los Alamitos—Alamitos West Health & Rehabilitation and Katella Read More
Mark IV Capital, a Newport Beach-based private equity firm specializing in real estate, sold 300 acres of open land to software giant Microsoft Corp. for about $71 million. The property is in Fernley, Nevada, about 35 miles east of Reno, Nevada, and could be used as a data center. Apple Read More
Dickies’ relocation from Fort Worth, Texas, to Orange County this year points to its parent company VF Corp.’s ongoing attempts to recapture sales at a time when three of its four core brands need a reset. The work apparel company, founded in 1922, will join their sister brand Vans at Read More
Harbinger Motors Inc. says it’s started production of its electric vehicles in Garden Grove and had already manufactured more than 100 of them for customers as of early this month. Harbinger has become one of the major electric vehicle manufacturers in Orange County. The much larger Rivian Automotive has its Read More
Editor’s Note: Dick Metz is well known in the surfing industry as the former owner of Hobie Sports shops and Surfline Hawaii and for helping reveal the legendary surf spots Cape St. Francis and Jeffreys Bay in South Africa. He was the subject of the documentary “Birth of the Endless Read More
Editor’s Note: Dick Metz is well known in the surfing industry as the former owner of Hobie Sports shops and Surfline Hawaii and for helping reveal the legendary surf spots Cape St. Francis and Jeffreys Bay in South Africa. He was the subject of the documentary “Birth of the Endless Read More
This 23,000-acre community, hailed by the developer as Orange County’s last frontier of development, has a giant problem — it sits in the middle of a high fire hazard zone. Given recent disasters that have befallen Pacific Palisades, Altadena and other communities, fires are top of mind for any buyer Read More
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. is taking its foil-wrapped burritos and hefty bowls to Latin America for the first time. The chain, Orange County’s most vulnerable publicly traded company, signed a development agreement with operator Alsea to open its first round of restaurants in Mexico and scout additional markets in the Read More
Transforming Lives through Music The Drake Restaurant in Laguna Beach, owned by Alec Glasser, hosted the annual The Drake Gives funding event on April 10. The sold-out event raised $125,000 to provide musical instruments for students in under-resourced schools. Event sponsors included the UCI Foundation, 27 Diamonds Interior Design and Read More
