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  • News

    March 9, 2000

    Gotcha, Kajima!

    Japanese firm to help build Anaheim ski park

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2007

    What's in a name?

    Jonathan Lansner has an interesting column in today's Reg on how the meltdown of Irvine's subprime mortgage monolith, New Century Financial (here's yesterday's New Century bad news, and here's today's fresh New Century bad news), is effecting other financial institutions with similar names. There a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2006

    Great Park of Empty Homes?

    According to the funny papers, the justification for tripling the number of homes in Irvine's Great Park is the tremendous demand for new homes. But this just came from the Orange County Business Journal e-mail alert. (We'd link you to the story, but those slick-haired OCBJ money-grubbers make you p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2009

    Weekly Move Coincides With Huge Drop in OC Office Rental Market

    They say that timing is everything in the news business. Or is it the guillotine-operation business? Whatever. All I'm saying is OC Weekly has picked a fortuitous time to move, leaving our deluxe penthouse in the fifth floor sky overlooking a Santa Ana Norm's for first-floor digs in office park near ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2009

    Alleged Fraud Within Irvine City Limits Keeps SEC, Whistleblower Busy

    Two corporations doing business in Irvine that are the subjects of a noteworthy/notorious whistleblower's fraud investigations have now apparently drawn the attention of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.The SEC is reviewing whether James Peterson, CEO of Irvine-based defense industry comp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2009

    Segerstrom Towers Achieve LEED-EB Gold Certification

    Plaza TowerSegerstrom Co., the developer of South Coast Plaza and most of the Costa Mesa-Santa Ana-straddling South Coast Metro area, announced this week that its Plaza Tower, Center Tower and Park Tower achieved LEED-EB Gold Certification, the first multi-tenant buildings in California and three of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2009

    Study: Generation Y Will Rescue Ailing Housing Market

    The nation will be pulled out of the housing crisis by an unlikely demographic, according to study by The Concord Group of Newport Beach, a "strategic" analyst of the real estate industry. "Like the early Baby Boomers in the 1946 to 1964 era, the 80-million strong Generation Y today will make up the ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 24, 2008

    Mayor McCheese

    John Mayer

  • News

    April 26, 2007

    Main Offender

    Garden Grove merchants say the city cut corners to let insider Steve Sheldon build condos

  • News

    September 9, 2004

    Slime Away

    Houchen is latest shady figure to exit Huntington Beach City Council

  • Columns

    February 27, 2003

    Diary of a Mad County

    Houchen is latest shady figure to exit Huntington Beach City Council

  • Features

    February 6, 2003

    3BD 3BA Underwater

    A Newport Beach builder could put you in something spacious, lovely andif a dam breaksunder 15 feet of water

  • News

    February 14, 2002

    Real Great Tax

    A Newport Beach builder could put you in something spacious, lovely andif a dam breaksunder 15 feet of water

  • News

    March 22, 2001

    Shut Up, Dave

    Attempting to scuttle conservation deal, Garofalo jacks up value of Bolsa Chica mesa real estate

  • News

    October 5, 2000

    Super Dave Christensen

    Racing councilman hits the special-interest wall

  • News

    September 21, 2000

    Another Dave, Another Scandal

    Like Garofalo, Christensen dogged by alleged conflicts

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    Even Swanky Hotel Owners Can't Afford Their Mortgage

    Sunstone Hotel Investors Inc., a San Clemente-based real estate investment trust, will default on the June mortgage payment for its swanky W Hotel San Diego property and turn over the 258-room downtown hotel to lenders, after failing to lower interest payments.The hotel has been hurt by "significant ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2009

    Swanky St. Regis Resort Could Go on Auction Block

    Monday we told you about Sunstone Hotel Investors Inc., a San Clemente-based real estate investment trust, walking away from its mortgage for the swanky, 258-room W Hotel in downtown San Diego. R. Scott Reckard and Roger Vincent over at the Los Angeles Times report today that one of Orange County's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2009

    Agran Crony and Gore Campaigner Agrees to Guilty Pleas in Federal Wire Fraud Case

    Irvine attorney Sandeep Baweja, the 39-year-old money man for that town's "progressive" political boss Larry Agran and a former official with Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign, agreed in court papers to plead guilty to two felony charges related to a scheme where he ripped off nearly all of the $ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    Bolsa Chica Boneyard Builder Brightwater Bankrupt

    ​We missed this yesterday, but still think you should know: The company that owns Brightwater -- the company that wanted to build 300-something homes on Huntington Beach wetland -- announced it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday.Both naturalists and Native Americans strenuously fought ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    High Bid for Orange County Fairgrounds is Low

    ​It was revealed today that Craig Realty Group of Newport Beach was the high bidder in the state's auction of the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa--with a bid that was much lower than the $96 million to $180 million the 150-acre property had been expected to fetch.The owner of several outle ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    The AIG Effect Be Damned! St. Regis Monarch Beach Has New Owner

    ​The infamous Dana Point resort where American International Group (AIG) sponsored a luxury retreat just days after accepting a federal bailout reportedly has a new owner.

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2010

    Thank Register Investor for Killing $184 Million Brightwater Bolsa Chica Bailout?

    ​If the death of a $184 million bailout ultimately kills the developer of homes above the ecologically sensitive Bolsa Chica wetlands, preservationists may have karma, an ancient Indian curse or an Orange County Register investor to thank.Or all three.

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2011

    Mitsuwa Marketplace Coming To Irvine

    Mitsuwa website​When Edwin and I had lunch at the new Loft Hawaiian in Costa Mesa last week, I struck up a conversation with the cashier. Actually, it was mostly me profusely thanking them for opening a location closer to home. What he disclosed to me next was nothing short of major scoopage!Said ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    Horrible Home For Sale Photos of the Day!

    Snaps photos with tongue; nabs commission​In California, would-be real estate agents have to pass an examination to obtain a valuable, state-issued license.But there is no requirement that the Realtors know a damn thing about activating a camera or taking a decent photograph.This fact can have t ... More >>

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