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Buellton City Council to review ‘Vision Plan – Santa Maria Times

Buellton City Council to review ‘Vision Plan’ Economic development, one of the top goals in Buellton’s “Vision Plan,” will be the subject of an upcoming agenda item before the City Council as part of a comprehensive review of the document. Unanimously accepted in February 2012, the plan is the result of the city’s two-year-long “visioning…

P3 Is Smart in Post-RDA Era – Globe Street features Ken Hira

P3 Is Smart in Post-RDA Era By Carrie Rossenfeld | San Diego SAN DIEGO-Many in the development community were apprehensive about the ability to complete development transactions after the dissolution of California’s redevelopment agencies, but governing bodies and private developers have been forming successful partnerships to get deals done, according to speakers at ICSC’s Western…

Larry Kosmont to Speak at 23rd Annual California Public Finance Conference

The Bond Buyer’s 23rd Annual California Public Finance Conference September 25-27, 2013 JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE | Los Angeles, CA THE ROAD TO STABILITY A rebounding economy, years of difficult cuts, and the voters trusting state leaders with a majority-vote budget and a temporary tax increase have brought California to a balanced budget…

Shopping Centers Today Features Kosmont Companies

California’s retail aftershock As California dissolves its public redevelopment agencies, some 2,500 properties are set to hit the market. by Anna Robaton A movie theater in downtown San Bernardino, Calif., that reopened this year with help from redevelopment funds. The city filed for federal bankruptcy protection in 2012.  A year after the California Supreme Court…