One of California’s most influential couples is the new owner of a 12-floor office building near Angel Stadium—the most expensive office sale of the year for Orange County. Corona del Mar-based H&S Ventures LLC, a company founded by Henry and Susan Samueli in 1999 to oversee Samueli Foundation’s investments, bought Stadium Tower at 2400 E. Katella Read More
Space Investment Partners, the real estate investment, development and management company owned by Orange County entrepreneur Mark Moshayedi, completed a potentially record-breaking deal for a retail center in Fullerton. The purchase price was not disclosed, but Space Investment Partners’ acquisition of Fullerton Metrocenter looks to be the most expensive retail Read More
Greenlaw Partners founder Wil Smith is a 1999 graduate of the Dollinger Master of Real Estate Development program at the USC Price School of Public Policy. “The USC degree gave me a lot of confidence as an entrepreneur,” Smith told USC Today earlier this month. Smith already had an entrepreneurial Read More
Nonprofit Xandra Laskowski Lucy Sun Jennifer Powers Women Investing in Security and Education (WISE) welcomes three accomplished leaders, Xandra Laskowski, Jennifer Powers and Lucy Sun, whose expertise supports WISE’s mission to empower women through financial literacy, investing and education. Xandra Laskowski, founder of OSEA Angel Investors, brings more than 25 years Read More
A Northern California homebuilder announced plans to build 120 single-family houses across two new neighborhoods in Rancho Mission Viejo. The new houses in Orange County are part of San Francisco Bay Area-based Trumark Homes’ larger play to add new housing in Southern California, with 450 residences planned for the region. Read More
The Tustin City Council unanimously approved a development agreement for Meritage Homes Corp. to build 73 condominium units on nearly 3.4 acres. The residential development, approved on June 3, would be built on two parcels that are currently vacant and surrounded by a multifamily development to the north, commercial properties Read More
Scott Germann says mutual respect and reasonable understanding are key to success when working with his two sons and a daughter at Main Electric Supply Co. “I never try to be dogmatic or absolute in my decision-making,” Germann, the company owner and chief executive, says of the family links. That Read More
When Tony Elias-Calles took over a construction company from his former boss back in 1989, there were zero customers at the time. The chief executive wanted the firm, which he renamed Consolidated Contracting, to be “a one-stop shop for all construction related needs,” from construction management to design.“We started from Read More
The largest women-owned businesses in Orange County are back to growing. The 37 locally based companies on this year’s Business Journal list reported total revenue of $4.8 billion, up 12% from a year ago. On last year’s list, their sales fell 4.5%, the first such decline in a decade. The Read More
Yoshiharu Global Co. is undergoing a major reset, replacing top executives – including the company founder – and temporarily shutting down its restaurants as part of a sweeping overhaul aimed at restoring investor confidence. The Buena Park-based ramen chain removed its founder and co-chief executive James Chae and Chief Financial Read More
