City of San Jacinto announces numerous new retail openings and construction including a CVS/pharmacy, Denny's, Threads Clothing Store, Mattress Brothers, a 7,600 sq. ft. flagship office for Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians, Sprint, Professional Beauty Supply store, GameTime, Domino's Pizza, a Beauty College and Tacos Tijuana Mexican Grill.
A free business survival workshop will be held on Wednesday, January 28, 2009, from 1-5 pm at the San Jacinto Community Center located at 625 S. Pico in San Jacinto. Sponsored by the cities of San Jacinto and Hemet, the County of Riverside Economic Development Agency and the Hemet-San Jacinto Economic Development Corp., attendees will have an opportunity to participate in a business assessment.
Investec broke ground on Gene Autry Plaza, a new 60,000 sq. ft. shopping center in Palm Springs, which will feature a Smart & Final Extra! Store, Staples, 11,500 sq. ft. of shop space including Goody’s Café and a drive-thru Starbucks, plus a bronze statue of Gene Autry, the revered broadcasting and media pioneer and legendary singer widely known for popularizing the American Western musical.
Four KTGY principals have been invited to speak at the 20th Annual Building Industry Association of Southern California’s Building Industry Show (BIS) 2008 on Nov. 13th at the Long Beach Convention Center. Mike Flynn, AIA, LEED AP and Damian Taitano will speak on “What Does Green Really Mean?” David Senden and Chris Texter, AIA will speak on “Cost Effective Design.”
David Chavez’s Braille Haptica watch design has received the ultimate Spark! Award. The Spark design competition, which is a bold new forum that recognizes the best ideas and best designs of professionals and up-and-coming designers alike, is the highest recognition awarded and was only given to 17 designs of the hundreds of entries. This comes on the heels of receiving the Bronze IDEA award.
Sport Clips will host a Block Party & Fundraiser on Sept. 20, 2008, from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, to directly benefit the American Red Cross. All donations received from the event will benefit the relief efforts provided by the American Red Cross to assist displaced hurricane victims of the 2008 Hurricane Season. Lots of fun, great entertainment and activities, FREE food, and many give-aways!
The Orange County Mormon Choral Organization (OCMCO) announces the opening of its second season with auditions underway until Sept. 18, 2008 for seven different performing ensembles with ages ranging from ages 4 - adult. OCMCO's opening concert for this season, All the Bells on Earth Shall Ring, will be held on Dec. 3, 2008, at 7:30 pm at Segerstrom Concert Hall. Please visit www.OCMCO.org.
Hodgdon Miank Construction completed construction on Heritage Crossing, a $6.8 million shopping center at the southwest corner of Baseline Avenue and Cherry Avenue in Fontana, Calif. The 4.86-acre project includes a multi-tenant retail building, state-of-the-art Jump Start Express Car Wash and a Miguel’s Jr. Mexican Food restaurant with a drive-thru. Miguel’s is now open for business.
David Chavez’s design has earned high honors for his Moveable Braille Timepiece design in the 2008 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) competition sponsored by BusinessWeek and IDSA.
Coreland Companies of Tustin, Calif., one of the largest real estate service companies based in California, was awarded seven new retail leasing assignments in Southern California totaling nearly 750,000 square feet during the second quarter of 2008. The team of Matt Hammond, Bryan Bauer, Thomas Tway and Tim Muller will be handling the various leasing assignments.
“Cruise for a Cure,” a sunset cruise through Newport Harbor to raise money to save lives fighting leukemia, lymphoma and other blood cancers, will be held Sunday, July 13, 2008 on the Endeavor yacht from 5-9 pm. While cruising Newport Harbor, the evening will also include OC's top dance band, Blues Racket Band, delicious food and a silent auction filled with many outstanding items.
Present Value Properties hired Keri Tabar and Ryan Pate as real estate associates. Tabar is the daughter of 20-year retail industry veteran Klaus Tabar, currently director of real estate for Wickes Furniture. Pate is the son of Harsch Investment Properties’ Senior Vice President, Retail Division, James Pate, a 25-year veteran of retail property development and management.
KTGY’s Principals Greg Lyon and Manny Gonzalez, AIA will speak at the Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Mixed-Use Development Conference on January 10-11, 2008 in Los Angeles, Calif. Wil Wong, AIA will be the keynote speaker at Stucco Manufacturers Association’s (SMA) lunch meeting on January 15th in Santa Ana, Calif.
Coreland Companies negotiated several leases totaling nearly 30,000 SF in So. CA including 24 Hour Fitness in West Covina, Tesco’s Fresh & Easy in Anaheim, and three second floor leases at Bella Terra in Huntington Beach.
KTGY GROUP, INC., Architecture and Planning received seven Silver Awards and a Regional Award in The Nationals 2008 Awards competition. KTGY is also a finalist for three prestigious Best In American Living Awards (BALA). The final Best In American Living Awards will be announced and presented February 12, 2008. The Nationals’ Gold Awards will be announced and presented February 13, 2008.
Highland Development Company has plans to develop a new $35 million upscale neighborhood shopping center located in Visalia (Tulare County), Calif. The new 14.3-acre ground-up development will include a specialty market, drug store, sit-down restaurant, various quick-serve restaurants, cafes, retail shops and bank.
Four principals from award-winning KTGY GROUP, INC., Architecture and Planning, have been invited to speak at the Building Industry Association of So. CA Building Industry Show 2007, Nov. 15-16, 2007 at the Long Beach Convention Center. KTGY’s Principals Ken Ryan, Tricia Esser, David Kent and Damian Taitano will speak at the BIS Show.
Award winning KTGY GROUP, INC., Architecture and Planning donated more than 1,200 books to the newly opened John J. Pershing Elementary School in Madera, Calif. The school, which was built to reduce overcrowding at two other area elementary schools, opened in August 2007 with an empty library. KTGY’s generous donation helped to fill Pershing’s school library.
Trachman Indevco, LLC broke ground on Citrus Crossing, a 23-acre suburban mixed-use redevelopment project offering shopping, dining, entertainment and on-site living. The new $75 million project, which is already 90 percent pre-leased, is a creative renaissance of an existing 180,000 SF shopping center built in the mid 1950s in the Foothill community of Azusa, Calif.
Award-winning KTGY GROUP, INC., Architecture and Planning has received finalist recognition for three of its California projects in the Builder’s Choice Design & Planning Awards competition, the housing industry’s most prestigious design awards program: Royal Court in Morgan Hill; Nuevo Amanecer Apartments in Pajaro; and The Lofts at Playa Vista.
Legendary NASCAR Driver Mike Wallace's #7 Busch Series Tour Car is on display at Sport Clips in Ontario on Sept. 8 & 9 from 11 am - 2 pm. Free admission.
Coreland Companies of Tustin, Calif., one of the largest real estate service companies based in California, announced that its Leasing / Sales Division was awarded seven new retail leasing assignments in Southern California totaling more than a quarter million square feet, during the second quarter of 2007.
Award-winning KTGY GROUP, INC., Architecture and Planning, earned six prestigious awards including the highly coveted Gold Nugget Grand Award, Best of 50+ Housing Award, MAME and Laurel Awards for “Best Community.”
Stater Bros. Markets opened its second store in San Jacinto at The Village at San Jacinto Shopping Center. Stater Bros. is part of a 100,000 sq. ft. neighborhood center under construction by Pacific Development Partners of Beverly Hills, CA. The new center will also include Walgreens, Carl’s Jr., Del Taco, PFF Bank & Trust, Starbucks and others.
Award-winning KTGY GROUP, INC., Architecture and Planning, announced it has earned six prestigious Gold Nugget Merit Awards for its site planning and architecture for attached, detached and affordable homes including “Best Affordable Project - Under 30 DU/AC,” “Best Attached Housing Project – 18 to 40 DU/AC,” and “Best Neighborhood Site Plan – Up to 20 Acres.”
KTGY GROUP announced that three principals from its Irvine, CA office, Manny Gonzalez, AIA, Stan Braden, AIA, and Ken Ryan, have been invited to speak at the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Spring Council Forum in Chicago, IL, and the PCBC Show and ULI Multifamily Trends Conference in San Francisco, Calif.
Award winning KTGY GROUP, INC., Architecture and Planning, has named three new shareholders. They are Homer C. Oatman, AIA, principal of residential design for the custom homes team based in the Irvine, CA office, and Michael I. Ohara, AIA, principal and director of residential design and Scott R. Higa, AIA, principal and director of retail design both based in the Denver office.
One of the largest real estate service companies based in California, Coreland Companies of Tustin, Calif., has added Fred Godinez and Brian Wegener as Leasing/Sales Associates to the company’s Leasing/Sales Department.
Award-winning KKE Architects, Inc. announced today that the company has leased an additional 6,500 square feet at its existing location at 525 E. Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena to accommodate the firm’s rapid growth. KKE moved into this building two years ago because they had outgrown their previous location in Pasadena. KKE will now occupy two floors and a total of 15,000 square feet.
Falcon Real Estate Investment Company has entered into a joint venture agreement with Transcan Development for the development of the Winchester Commercial Center in Temecula, CA. The 74,166-square-foot mixed-use center will consist of six free-standing office buildings totaling 45,750 square feet and two multi-tenant retail buildings totaling 28,416 square feet.
The Hodgdon Group, a full-service real estate brokerage, development and construction management company, has been selected by Giant RV, the number one RV dealer in the nation and the largest dealer in California, to handle the design, entitlements and construction management of Giant RV’s $2.5 million redevelopment and expansion of its Murrieta RV center.
Wellington Franchising Systems, the area developer for Sport Clips in Orange County, Inland Empire and Southern Nevada, is opening four new stores in Orange County during the next four months. Wellington debuted its first Orange County store in Huntington Beach in December 2006 and its second in Irvine in January 2007, which also serves as its corporate training store.
Award-winning KKE Architects, Inc. has completed design services for Jess Ranch Marketplace Phase II in Apple Valley, CA and has commenced design, construction drawings and entitlement services for the project’s Phase III. Developed by Malcolm Riley & Associates of Los Angeles, Jess Ranch Marketplace’s Phase II is scheduled to open this fall. Phase III is slated to break ground later this year.
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