Conejo Valley Newsletter - March 2020

area newsletter MARCH 2020 • CONEJO VALLEY

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Community News Malibu Hotspot Nabs Coveted Ranking A popular hangout for Hollywood A-listers, Nobu Malibu has earned the sought-after AAA FourDiamond rating The Japanese restaurant is known to be frequented by celebrity clientele - from Miley

Thousand Oaks poised to become a booming biotech hub in 2020

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Thousand Oaks is being engineered into a biotech

To qualify, a

boomtown - again. Amgen, one of the world’s biggest biotech companies, remains the largest private employer in Ventura County. But in the years since it came to the Conejo Valley in 1980, it has scaled back its local workforce. However, it looks like recent efforts by city officials to draw in new bioscience investment is about to pay off. Last year, the city introduced a new ordinance to foster the industry’s growth. And it has partnered with Westlake Village BioPartners, whose founding managing director is former Amgen executive Beth Seidenberg. Now according to The Acorn, it

Selena Gomez to Leonardo DiCaprio and Bradley Cooper. restaurant must meet multiple standards of excellence, including cuisine, quality of ingredients, as well as staff and surroundings. Other Four Diamond restaurants in Los Angeles County are: Culina Modern Italian at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles in Beverly Hills; Cut by Wolfgang Puck at the Beverly Wilshire; Spago Beverly Hills; Patina; The Blvd at the Beverly Wilshire; 71Above Restaurant & Skylounge; Saddle Peak Lodge in Calabasas; and The Raymond.

industrial area of Newbury Park, north of the 101

$1.5B Project Opens Door to Affordable Housing

freeway. In 2017, Amgen relocated or laid off almost 500

Plans for an ambitious $1.5 billion development

employees from its headquarters. It currently has about

at Warner Center have been remodeled to include

5,500 employees in Thousand Oaks.

affordable housing units. Developer Unibail-Rodamco-

appears there could be as many as six new life-science startups in the city by the end of the year. Much of the forthcoming growth could be concentrated in the

Westfield submitted the revised proposal for the project - which is called Promenade 2035 - to the City of Los

Community News Angeles after months of community feedback. One

worried clients

hundred rent-controlled units will now be part of the

expressing interest in

first 1,000 units it builds. As envisioned, Promenade

long-term real estate

2035 will create 34 acres of plazas, new housing, hotels,

investment. Property

shops and cafes in Woodland Hills. But it was originally

prices in world-

presented with only market-rate housing. As proposed

class population

now, the rent-restricted units will be designated for

hubs – which

tenants who earn below the median income. Fifty more

boast diversified

units will be reserved for local workers. Prior to the

economies - are

changes to the original plans, the developer had said

more likely to

work could begin on Promenade 2035 by as early as

weather a recession, investors believe. A survey of more

next year.

than 600 bankers and wealth advisors by property consultancy Knight Frank found a majority of highnet-worth individuals are considering changing their investment plans due to the slowdown triggered by the coronavirus. Of those, more than 40 percent planned to up their stake in real estate, the report added. This is the fourth year in a row Schroders’ Global Cities Index has named Los Angeles as the global leader in real estate investment.

L.A. Named Top Global Real Estate Market Los Angeles has been ranked the top real estate investment market in the world – just as concerns about the global economy have investors retreating to the safety of real estate. Schroders’ Global Cities Index named Los Angeles No. 1 based on economic, environmental and educational criteria. London and Hong Kong came in second and third, respectively.

New York ranked ninth. According to Mansion Global, at least one property agency in London has noticed

Anchor Loans moves to Westlake Village Anchor Loans, a private real estate finance firm, has leased a 26,000 square foot space on Baxter Way in Westlake Village. The company caters to “fix-and-flip” real estate investors, having made over $7.7 billion in loans since its founding, including $1 billion in the past three years alone. Anchor, which was previously based on Las Virgenes Road in Calabasas, has also hired on 15% more employees in each of the past three years, necessitating the move to new headquarters.

Spotlight LESSONS LEARNED TO KEEP YOU AND YOUR FAMILY SAFE AND HEALTHY For all the complexities of the coronavirus, its lessons are simple. Soap. Water. Think about others. Eat healthy. Prepare for the worst. So let’s take a moment, as we move forward in time, to remember the ways we can keep ourselves and others safe from harm - for now, and the next time.

WASH YOUR HANDS A splash of water and a quick shake is not enough. Nor is a dab of soap that barely lathers. Instead, you should soap and scrub for at least 20 seconds - and longer if you’ve been sneezing or coughing. Wash them after you’ve been out in public. Wash them before you eat. And please, wash them after you’ve used the bathroom. As we all know by now, you should be able to sing “Happy Birthday” twice from the time you turn the taps on to the time you towel off.

WATCH HOW YOU COUGH OR SNEEZE Cover your face, your mother probably scolded you after you sneezed. Turns out, the CDC says your mother was right. (As moms usually are.) Use a tissue to shield the cough or sneeze and if a tissue is not within grasp, bury the blast in your sleeve or elbow.

MAINTAIN A HEALTHY DISTANCE The term “social distancing” has been carved into the popular lexicon, but really, it’s just another way to remind you about germs. They’re out there. They don’t mean you well.

And they’re usually on people, especially strangers, and the knobs, rails and handles they touch. Whether it’s this pandemic or the next, you should always remember how illnesses spread.

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stauKEEP IN SHAPE Staying healthy starts with being healthy. So do all the things you know you should be doing, but probably don’t: exercise, drink lots of water, get at least eight hours of sleep, consume food that supports your immune system (hint: it’s green and comes in the vegetable aisle) and maybe pop a vitamin. Your body will thank you for it during the next flu season or outbreak.

STAY STOCKED Walking into a store to find its shelves stripped bare is troubling enough if you’re just looking for a snack – never mind if you need medicine. So keep enough on-hand to last at least a month - from prescriptions to over-thecounter supplies. And you should have at least two weeks of food and water stocked, too. Because this probably won’t be the last emergency you see.

WHEN SICK, STAY HOME There was a time when if you were under the weather, you went to work anyway. But that only slows your recovery and exposes others to illness.

Take a sick day. That’s why you have them.

SHOW YOUR ELDERS SOME LOVE Time is precious for the elderly. So while caregivers have to do what they can to keep the older population safe from harm, which can include limiting exposure to germ-carrying grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it’s just as important emotionally to let them know they are not alone.

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