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Features Our Pick: Top Business Stories of 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Editorial SCVBJ Managing Editor

Jana Adkins jana@signalscv.com 661-287-5599

Largest Law Firms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2016 Was a Very Good Year for Santa Clarita Valley Business. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

SCVBJ Editor

Lawyers – Sole Practitioners. . . . . . . . . . 98

pmullen@signalscv.com

Web Design Companies. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

661-287-5509

The Inc. 2016 500/5000 List of Fastest Growing Companies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Advertising

Patrick Mullen

Largest Commercial Brokers. . . . . . . . . . 14

661-287-5564

Local Retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Advertising Director

SCV Dealerships 2015 Sales. . . . . . . . . . 18

Steve Nakutin

Largest Digital Media Companies. . . . . . 19

snakutin@signalscv.com

Family Owned Business 2016. . . . . . . . . 20

661-287-5561

Movie Ranches & Sound Stages in Santa Clarita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Multi-Media Account Executives

SCV Hotels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Dawn Begley Maureen Daniels Monica Jaffe Toni Sims

SCV Private Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 SCV Oldest Restaurants . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Top 50 Employers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Top Public Employers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Largest Bioscience Companies. . . . . . . . . 30

Administrative Assistant

Aerospace and Defense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Courtney Briley

Articles Flourishing Business Environment . . . . . 27 SCV Voices: An Update on Recent California Legislation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 SCV Voices: Guide to Planning in 2017. . . 34 SCV Voices: Make Sure Your Technology Doesn’t Get Stuck In the Past. . . . . . . . . . 34

SCV Business Services SCVEDC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Chamber of Commerce. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 VIA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Business Data Central Commercial Real Estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Residential Real Estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

■ Dave Styler, President and CEO of Logix Federal Credit Union, left, takes the gold shovel from the company mascot, “Robix” in preparation for the official ground breaking ceremony at the location of the new Logix Headquarters building in Valencia. Photo by Dan Watson.

From the Editor 2016: A Year of Growth for the Valley As you read our recap of the business stories that we covered in 2016, a couple of connected themes explain the fact that Santa Clarita continues to attract Southern California employers looking to expand. One is the business-friendly focus of community leaders, who know we’re competing with dozens of other cities across the Southland. As important is the quality of life here, which employers frequently bring up without prompting.

These factors helped add to our existing clusters of companies in key industries, including aerospace, entertainment, medical devices, manufacturing, and professional services.

As the year winds down, we’re grateful to our advertisers, for making it possible to provide the Santa Clarita Valley’s hometown business monthly publication. We appreciate all the local businesses that shared their stories with us in 2016, and are excited to report and share our community’s business news as it unfolds in 2017. Enjoy this issue and stay well!

■ Juan Alonso discusses the buds on the vines at his five-acre wine vineyard in Santa Clarita.

Photo by Dan Watson.

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Pam Conley 661-287-5580 Art/Production Graphic Design Supervisor

Deborah Runions Photographers

Daniel Watson Katharine Lotze Executive Staff

Patrick Mullen SCVBJ Editor pparcellin@signalscv.com

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Circulation

American Family Funding. . . . . . . . . . 2

LBW Insurance Financial Services. . . . 11

California Resources Corporation. . . . 7

Mission Valley Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Castaic Lake Water Agency. . . . . . . . 18

Poole & Shaffery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

City of Tehachapi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Providence Holy Cross. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Colliers International. . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

SCVEDC: Henry Rodriguez. . . . . . . 19

Exclusive Service Directory Group. . . . 40

SCVEDC: Jeremy Stepan. . . . . . . . . 21

Fast Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

SCVEDC: Marisol Espinoza . . . . . . . 24

Hyatt Regency Valencia. . . . . . 10 & 27

SOS Entertainment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

JD Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Valencia Acura. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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which will pay for the cost to build the infrastructure. Wilcon has one of the largest fiber optic networks in Southern California, with the most dense fiber and interconnection infrastructure in downtown Los Angeles. It delivers fiber and ultra-broadband services for businesses, wireless carriers and other communications service providers, as well as owns and operates leading data center and carrier-neutral facilities in downtown Los Angeles, including its key hub at the One Wilshire, where several entities operate out of a single location. “Our agreement with Santa Clarita potentially opens up the (high-speed internet) highway for Santa Clarita as well for businesses that are looking to enhance connectivity and have their data get out in efficient and economical way,” a company spokesman said.

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n reviewing our coverage of the top business stories in the Santa Clarita Valley during 2016, it’s clear that it was a year of planting seeds that will bear fruit for years to come. All kinds of development projects moved forward, including industrial, retail, and commercial. As our top story, we chose the decision by Logix Federal Credit Union to move its storied headquarters, along with 500 jobs, from Burbank to Santa Clarita. Along with stories of new beginnings was one that marked the end of an era, with the passing of Alfred Mann, a visionary leader in the biomedical industry who spearheaded growth in the valley for decades.

Logix Federal Credit Union Breaks Ground on New Valencia Campus Looking back at the top business stories of 2016 in the Santa Clarita Valley, the decision by Logix Federal Credit Union to move its headquarters here from Burbank tops the list. The move represents an infusion of $100 million into the Valley, including investment in the land (12 acres located at the corner of Commerce Center Drive and Franklin Parkway in Valencia), building, technical equipment, furnishings and landscaping. A 70 percent membership increase since 2011 has driven growth in assets and employee headcount and made the move a must, said Dave Styler, president and CEO of Logix. To accommodate the growth, for the past year and a half the firm has leased 12,000 square feet of space located across the street from the main office. The credit union is targeting a Q3 2018 move to its new campus. The move, which will bring 500 jobs to Santa Clarita, was necessary, said Styler, because there was no suitable property or buildings available in or near Burbank.

■ Dave Styler, President and CEO, Logix Federal Credit Union, and board members break ground for the company’s new Valencia headquarters. Photo by Dan Watson.

Ground Breaks on Valley’s MasterPlanned Industrial Project

significant new industrial construction in L.A. County in almost a decade."

Ground broke in May on Gateway V, Santa Clarita Valley’s newest industrial and office project, being developed by Los Angeles-based AEW Capital Management and Sheridan Ebbert Development of Sylmar on a 13-acre site in Valencia. The new ownership group, MCA Gateway V LLC, purchased the four

Film Ranches Qualify as Production Facilities Under State’s Film Incentive Program

Laemmle Mixed-Use Project Approved Santa Clarita City Council members gave their blessing in February to bring a 400-space parking garage, retail and residential space and a Laemmle Theatre to downtown Newhall.

The project has an overall projected cost of $15.2 million. The city also agreed to give a $3.4 million subsidy to Laemmle, which includes a one-time payment of $1.98 million in exchange for a guarantee that the theater will be open for least 15 years. Serrano Development is privately building another 20,240 square feet of retail space and 46 multi-family residential units. The project also includes a public plaza and on-site underground parking garage for residents. Groundbreaking is expected in the early part of 2017, once financing, project approvals and building permits are complete. The theater, envisioned as part of an arts and entertainment district, is expected to open by the summer of 2018.

■ The set of NCIS Los Angeles at the Sable Ranch movie ranch in Santa Clarita. Photo by Richard Cartwright/CBS Broadcasting courtesy photo.

lots from Gateway V LLC in April of this year.

The development is part of the largest master-planned industrial project and center for business technology and industry in Los Angeles County, according to a commercial real estate brokerage firm CBRE. Brokers Craig Peters and Doug Sonderegger represented both sides of this transaction. Three state-ofthe-art Class A industrial building with 28-foot minimum clear height are planned. “We have almost no vacancies in our industrial space; this is a great new opportunity,” said Holly Schroeder, president and CEO of the SCV Economic Development Corp. “It is the first

The California Film Commission now includes movie ranches under the definition of an “approved production facility,” which will allow a film or TV project to benefit from the state’s expanded film tax credit program.

That’s good news for the Santa Clarita Valley, home to movie ranches that include Rancho Deluxe, Melody Ranch, Blue Cloud and Disney’s Golden Oak Ranch. Under the previous definition, only studios with indoor sound stages were typically considered as approved facilities. To qualify for tax credits, a movie ranch has to be properly primarily used for film and TV commercial production,” said Amy Lemisch, executive director for the California Film Commission. A number of factors are weighed when production companies apply for the state’s film tax credits such as the project’s budget and job count. After years of runaway film and TV productions, state legislators approved a new program in 2014 which took effect in 2016.

Scorpion Lands new HQ, Keeps Jobs Local After a long search, internet marketing firm Scorpion selected a site next to Sunkist headquarters on Entertainment Drive for its new headquarters. The company currently operates out of six office suites in two buildings on Avenue Stanford. As the company has grown, it has been looking for a place where they can move everyone under one roof. “We’ve definitely considered other areas, but most of our employees are based locally and this is our home,” said Kylie Patterson, director of public relations. “Our CEO resides here; the majority of our executive team is in the area. Santa Clarita has been, and for the foreseeable future, always will be our top place for a headquarters.”

The company has 318 employees but plans to be at 400 in the near future – and is planning for its growth over the next 10 to 20 years.

■ Scorpion headquarters sporting the company’s new logo. Photo by Dan Watson.

Alfred E. Mann, 1925 – 2016 Alfred E. Mann, a beloved philanthropist and entrepreneur and a pioneer in the biomedical, aerospace and pharmaceuticals fields, died Feb. 25, 2016. Santa Clarita is home to many companies he helped to launch, such as MannKind, as well as the Mann Biomedical Park, which he purchased in 2002. Among those paying tribute to Mann was David Hankin, CEO of the Alfred Mann Foundation: “Al Mann was a great man, a man of action, not just words. Al was a kind gentleman (in the truest sense of the word), caring, empathetic, loyal and tenacious. He treated everyone with the same dignity and respect no matter the person’s station in life. Al had a great sense of humor and loved to laugh – ­he had a deep, contagious laugh. His work and the work of the companies he started and supported have improved (and continue to improve) the lives of thousands and thousands of people around the globe.” 

Fiber Optic and Data Center Firm to Help Build High-Speed Internet Highway in Santa Clarita

■ Rendering of Laemmle mixed-use project in Newhall. Courtesy rendering.

Fiber optic connections to the high-speed internet highway may be coming to your business in the near future based on a deal the city of Santa Clarita inked in June with Los Angeles-based internet service provider, Wilcon,

■ Alfred E. Mann, 1925-2016

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Rank

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Largest Law Firms (Ranked by No. of Attorneys)

Firm

# Attys

Full-time support staff

Area of practice

Comp

Retainer or hourly

1

Poole & Shaffery, LLP

25

12

Business Litigation; Business Transactions; Employment Counseling; Employment Litigation; Construction Law; Intellectual Property; Real Estate Disputes; Arbitration; Land Use and Government Affairs; Family Owned Business Counseling; OSHA Compliance; Environmental Law; Non Profit and Tax Exempt Organizations; Premises Liability; Product Liability and Professional Liability

2

Reape-Rickett Law Firm

9

13

Family, divorce

3

Owen Patterson and Owen

6

15

4

Law offices of C. Ray Carlson

4

5

The Bridgeford Law Office

6

Donahoe & Young, LLP

7

The Law Offices of L. Rob Werner

8

Year est.

Top local executive

Contact info

1998

John Shaffery Managing Partner

25350 Magic Mountain Pkwy., 2nd Floor Santa Clarita; 661-290-2991 www.pooleshaffery.com

Hourly

1992

James Reape Senior Managing Partner

25152 Springfield Ct., Suite 100, Valencia 661-288-1000 ‎ www.divorcedigest.com

Personal Injury

Contingency

1977

Richard A. Patterson, 23822 W. Valencia Blvd. #20, Valencia Esq. /Greg Owen, Esq./ 661-799-3899 Susan Own, Esq. www.opolaw.com • opolawrap@yahoo.com

5

Personal Injury, Litigation

Contingency

1984

Ray Carlson

27951 Smythe Drive, Suite 101, Valencia 661-294-0044 www.craycarlson.com

4

5

Certified specialist workers compensation

Contingency

1999

Mark Bridgeford

25060 Avenue Stanford, # 160, Valencia 661-775-9300 www.bridgefordlaw.com

4

3

Bankruptcy

Depends

1979

Mark Young Attorney

25152 Springfield Ct. #345, Valencia 661-259-9000 www.donahoeyoung.com

3

6

Criminal defense, family law, wills, trusts and probate, civil and personal injury litigation, contracts and negotiations, bankruptcy, business and corporate, landlord/tenant

Varies

1975

L. Rob Werner

27257 1/2 Camp Plenty Rd., Canyon Country 661-735-4986 www.wernerlawca.com

Markson Pico LLP

3

1

Employment, business litigation, personal injury

Depends

Brett Markson and Timothy Pico Attorneys

27240 Turnberry Ln. #200, Valencia 661-775-0877 www.marksonpico.com

9

McNamara Law Firm

2

4

Elder law, estate planning life care planning

Jane McNamara Attorney

28212 Kelly Johnson Pkwy. #110, Valencia 661-287-3260 www.janemcnamara.com

10

Kanowsky and Associates

2

3

Business, real estate

11

Gharibian & Oliver Attorneys

2

2

12

Gharibian & Oliver Attorneys

2

2 paralegals 3 Total

Retainer or hourly

Hourly

1996

Carl Kanowsky Senior Partner

26481 Summit Cir., Santa Clarita 91350 661-290-2656 www.kanowskylaw.com

Family

Retainer or hourly

2010

April Oliver & Paulette Gharibian

25350 Magic Mountain Pkwy. #240, Valencia 661-254-4100 www.gocallaw.com

Family

Retainer or hourly

2010

April Oliver & Paulette Gharibian

25350 Magic Mountain Pkwy. #240, Valencia 661-254-4100 www.gocallaw.com

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part in the program, and the only one that is building homes in the Santa Clarita Valley.

Other local WaterSense participants include the City of Santa Clarita, Castaic Lake Water Agency, which owns the Santa Clarita Water Division, Newhall County Water District, and the Valencia Water Company.

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JANUARY JSB Development to Start Second Project After holding onto a parcel for a decade, JSB Development decided to develop the parcel, off McBean Parkway near where The Greens’ miniature golf course and restaurant once stood. The five-story project includes 60 apartments ranging from studios to twobedroom units, above 10,000 square feet of retail and office space, and an underground parking garage. The project is near the Santa Clarita Transit Center, the paseo network, and Westfield Valencia Town Center. The development is near the corner of McBean and Valencia Blvd., where a developer plans to build a hotel called The Oliver. JSB Development is a Santa Clarita firm with multiple projects in the works, including the masterplan community of Vista Canyon.

Outlook 2016: Filming

■ Ktech technician Jeff Kim works on a video encoder box at Ktech in Valencia. Photo by Dan Watson.

early 2020’s. The airport will still have 14 gates, but the terminal will be farther from the runways for safety reasons and will have 70 percent more space for passenger amenities. In November, Burbank voters passed Measure B with 69 percent of voters, which authorized the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority to proceed with the $400-million project, which the authority has supported since it was formed in 1978.

Ktech Launches Second Company

Second Newhall Building Sold to Investors

Ktech Telecommunications Inc., maker of products for digital broadcast and cable companies, relocated to Valencia, earned a state business tax credit, and launched a new line of business. Ktech was an early entry in the development of microchip technology used for high-definition television (HDTV).

The 20-year-old company moved from Chatsworth to an 8,000-square foot space on Avenue Crocker. The new venture, iXT Manufacturing Solutions, LLC, provides engineering and circuit assembly services to other companies, with a focus on light-emitting diode (LED) products for medical and industrial clients in need of high-reliability products. Ktech, only the second Santa Clarita company to earn a California Competes Tax Credit, received a $100,000 credit in exchange for committing to invest $720,000 and adding at least four full-time employees over four years.

A historic building at the corner of Main and Market Streets in the heart of Old Town Newhall was sold to an investment group for

Local Firms Relieved at Renewal of Export-Import Bank The Export-Import Bank, a federal agency, was shuttered for five months after Congress allowed its charter to expire for the first time in its 81-year history, then revived as part of a transportation bill signed by President Obama. The bank makes and guarantees loans to help foreign customers buy U.S. goods. Locally, aerospace manufacturers say the bank helps level the competitive playing field since other countries provide similar support to their companies. The bank authorized $20 billion worth of transactions in 2015, which supported $27.5 billion in U.S. exports and 164,000 American jobs, said U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, R.-Ill.

Burbank Airport Overhaul Holds Hope for Local Travelers Long-delayed plans to replace the aging and cramped terminal at Bob Hope Burbank airport (since rebranded as Hollywood Burbank Airport) moved forward, holding out hope that the nearest airport to the Santa Clarita Valley will open a new chapter by the

particularly people who live here in the Santa Clarita Valley, said Keri Aaver, director of the local WorkSource Center.

Outlook 2016: New Housing Housing starts in Los Angeles and Ventura counties were expected to hold steady, with nearly 21,000 new units, of which three quarters are multi-family units. Building and delivering houses at an affordable price point was seen as the biggest challenge by Michelle Weedon, Senior Vice President, Advisory of Meyers Research. “We have very limited new home/rental inventory; we can’t build enough homes to house our growing population.”

With more than 533 permits for location shooting (up from 460 the previous year) 2015 was a strong year for filming in Santa Clarita, said Evan Thomason, economic development associate with the city’s Film Office. He anticipated another strong year in 2016, as a tight market for studio space throughout LA County helps fill studio space here. The state’s new film and TV tax credit program was also expected to drive an increase in filming activity.

City and County Celebrate “Princess Cruises Day” The 50th anniversary of Santa Claritabased Princess Cruises was celebrated by the city and LA County. The cruise line entered its first-ever float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, and reunited the cast of the TV show “The Love Boat” which is credited with launching the modern cruise industry during its 1977-1986 run. Princess is the third-largest cruise line in the world, with a fleet of 18 ships and more than 30,000 employees who serve 1.7 million travelers a year.

FEBRUARY IT Healthcare Firm Launches with Perfect Timing

■ Burbank airport. Courtesy photo

close to asking price. The 8,450-square foot, two-story retail and commercial building was best known as home to Work Boots Warehouse, which moved to Lyons Ave. since the sale closed. “Investors see tremendous opportunities in the area,” said Tim Crissman, of Crissman Commercial Services, Inc. “They’ve seen the renaissance that has been ongoing and it’s only going to get stronger.”

The building is on the site of the Southern Hotel, a semi-colonial style two-story hotel that opened in 1887 but burned down decades ago. A mural of the hotel adorns the side of the current building. The building is in the heart of the historic downtown district, near two live theaters and restaurants.

KB Home Wins WaterSense Award from EPA The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded a 2015 WaterSense Sustained Excellence Award to KB Home, a long-time builder in the Santa Clarita Valley. The award recognizes efforts to make homes more water efficient with products that meet the EPA’s WaterSense standards. KB’s WaterSense-labeled homes save an estimated 3 million gallons of water daily. KB Home is one only a few homebuilders in California to take

Sunkist: Profile of a Growers’ Cooperative After more than 40 years in Sherman Oaks, Sunkist Growers Inc. moved its headquarters to N. Entertainment Dr. in Valencia in late 2014. “Relocating our headquarters was a business decision to bring our operations closer to our growers, the heart of our business, while keeping our current employee base intact,” said Russ Hanlin, President and CEO. Sunkist is the world’s largest citrus cooperative, marketing millions of cartons of fresh citrus internationally. Hanlin went on to describe how the cooperative operates and benefits growers.

Outlook 2016: Jobs and Connecting with Employees Jobs were predicted to grow by 2,000 in 2016, said Holly Schroeder, president and CEO of the Santa Clarita Valley Economic Development Corp., with the greatest growth in the logistics sector including transportation, warehousing and utilities, construction and government. The toughest challenge for companies looking to hire is finding the people they’re looking for,

MTS Healthcare announced plans to move its workforce from Pasadena to the Santa Clarita Valley with plans for growth.

“We are a cloud computing company and IT service provider that works exclusively with healthcare organizations across the U.S. hosting electronic medical records applications,” said James Deck, founder and CEO. The company is developing a second tool for medical groups, a kiosk that allows patients to check in on their own when going to their doctors and make any required copayments.

“It relieves front desk staff so they can focus more on patient care and billing,” Deck said.

He said his firm’s primary goal is to make it easier for doctors to focus on their primary mission of providing care to patients, by reducing the complexity and costs of IT services.

■ KB Home. Courtesy photo.

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Lawyers – Sole Practitioners (Listed by Area of Practice) Name

Contact

Primary Practice

Name

Contact

Bankruptcy

Law Office of Hale A. Antico

27578 Sierra Hwy., Santa Clarita 661-252-9900 scvbankruptcy.com

Estate Planning

Julia C. McBride, Attorney at Law, P.C.

27720 Dickason Dr. #214, Valencia 661-259-7930 www.jcmcbridelaw.com

Business

Peter R. diDonato, diDonato Law Center

23929 West Valencia Blvd., #411, Valencia 661-255-7500 peter@didonato-law-center.com

Estate Planning

Law Office of Lisa Golshani

27240 Turnberry Lane, #200, Valencia 661-362-0770 golshanilaw.com

Business

Hacker Law Group

26650 The Old Rd. # 201, Valencia 661-259-6800 www.hackerlawgroup.com

Estate Planning

Law Offices of Randall D. Armour

25129 The Old Rd. #322, Stevenson Ranch 661-259-0003 www.armourlaw.com

Business

Law Office of G. Marshall Hann

25350 Magic Mountain Pkwy., #130, Valencia 661-255-3600 gmarlaw.com

Family Law

David S. Delnero, A Professional Law Corporation

28494 Westinghouse Pl. #303, Valencia 661-702-9200

Business

Law Office of Richard L. Weiner

27240 Turnberry Ln. #200, Valencia 661-362-0860 richardlweinerlaw.com

Family Law

Law Offices of Steven B. Chroman

28494 Westinghouse Place, Suite 115, Valencia 661-255-1800 www.chromanlaw.com

Law Offices of Henry Knebel

28042 Ave. Stanford Unit E, Valencia 661-799-3600 www.knebelaw.com

Family Law

The Law Offices of Philip A. Wasserman

28005 N. Smyth Dr. #126, Valencia 661-294-8484 www.santaclaritafamilylaw.com

General

Law Offices of Louis J. Esbin

25129 The Old Rd. #114, Stevenson Ranch 661-254-5050 www.esbinlaw.com

Ave. Stanford #B-124, Valencia Gina G. MacDonald, Attorney 25115 661-294-6464 at Law ginamacdonald.com

Daniel Gunning, Attorney at Law

28470 Avenue Stanford, Suite 360 661-287-4120 dgunning@earthlink.net www.gunninglawfirm.com

Immigration

World Esquire Law Firm, LLP

25050 Ave. Kearny #111, Valencia 661-294-0911 www.worldesquire.com

Lemon Law, Personal Inujury

Law Office of Barry Edzant

28470 Avenue Stanford, Suite 360, Valencia, 661-222-9929 www.valencialaw.com

Misc.

Law Office of John S. MacIntosh

25350 Magic Mountain Pkwy. Santa Clarita 661-255-7027

Misc.

Law Offices of Michael D. Finley

28212 Kelly Johnson Pkwy. #195, Valencia 661-964-0444 www.artisticlawyer.com

Misc.

William R. Lively & Associates

23300 Cinema Drive, #2910, Valencia 661-287-3600 www.livelylegal.com

Patents

Hoffman Patent group

28494 Westinghouse Pl. #204, Valencia 661-775-0300 www.dlhpatent.com

Personal Injury

Law Office of Robert J. Kaiser

23550 Lyons Ave. #203, Santa Clarita 661-253-3293 robertjkaiser.com

Personal Injury

Law Office of Robert M. Mansour

28212 Kelly Johnson Pkwy. #110, Santa Clarita 661-414-7100 mansourlaw.com valencialawyer.com

Tax and General

Law Office of David Barlavi

25060 Ave. Stanford #235, Valencia 661-775-0237 www.taxlyr.com

Workers Comp, Social Security, accidents

Law Office of Emil Larry Henen

23504 Cinema Dr. #A, Valencia 661-254-7064 henencompensation.com

Workers Comp, Social Security, accidents

The Law Office of Ronald J. Nolan

27821 Fremont Court, Unit 7, Valencia, 661-964-0441 www.ronnolan.com www.workcomplaw1@me.com

Workers Comp, Social Security, accidents

Law Office of Emil Larry Henen

23504 Cinema Dr. #A, Valencia 661-254-7064 henencompensation.com

Workers Comp, Social Security, accidents

The Law Office of Ronald J. Nolan

27821 Fremont Court, Unit 7, Valencia, 661-964-0441 www.ronnolan.com www.workcomplaw1@me.com

Business

Business

Business and Rreal Estate

Civil Litigation

Criminal Defense

Criminal Defense

Criminal Defense

Debt Collection

Dispute Resolution

Divorce

Law Office of Carlos E. Needham

28494 Westinghouse Pl. #213, Valencia 661-843-6174 ww.needhamlegal.com

Bradley R. Tyer & Associates

27240 Turnberry Ln. #200, Valencia 661-295-1600 www.brtlaw.com

Law Office of Gary Symonds

Law Office of Jeffrey D. Armendariz

Law Office of Michael N. Berke

Bruce B. Neft

Law Offices of Rand E. Pinsky

25835 Railroad Ave., Santa Clarita 661-253-3700

25124 Springfield Ct. #250, Valencia (661) 288-1959 25001 The Old Rd., Newhall 661-259-1800 michael.berke@berkeslaw.com berkeslaw.com 23418 Darcy Ln., Newhall 661-255-6665 bneft@roadrunner.com 28005 Smyth Dr. #102, Valencia 661-295-4644 www.randpinsky.com

Divorce

Martinelli Law Group

28422 Constellation Rd., Valencia 888-809-4713 www.martinelli-lawgroup.com

Elder Law

Law Office of Sean D. Ethington

25000 Ave. Stanford #254 , Valencia 661-295-4605 elderlawsite.com

Environmental

Law Office of Christine M. Kudija

24135 Wildwood Cyn Rd., Santa Clarita 661-254-6266

Estate Planning

Angeles Law Center

23542 Lyons Ave. #200A, Newhall 661-255-1001 www.angeleslawcenter.com

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Plans Temporarily on Hold for Medical Offices, Parking Plans by Kaiser Permanente to renovate the former U.S. Borax building on Tourney Road were delayed in January, pending review of possible Native American cultural resources.

Kaiser is converting the building to new Santa Clarita Specialty Medical Offices. The project also calls for replacement of a four-story parking structure with a larger seven-story garage.

The delay came after the Fernandeno Tataviam Band of Mission Indians requested a consultation, which was concluded by March.

Kaiser bought the property in 2012, and anticipates opening in 2017, while keeping its current medical office building, also on Tourney Rd., for primary care.

DECEMBER 2016

Contractor Buys Building He Built and Sold

SCV Film Studio Sued

by CBS, Paramount

National Closed-Captioning Service in Santa Clarita

Westridge Executive Plaza on the Old Road is back in familiar hands, those of Dale Donohoe and Intertex Properties of Valencia, which built Westridge in 2003 and sold it in 2005. The 64,388-squarefoot building once housed Pardee Homes, which occupied 10,000 square feet before the housing market crashed, but eventually vacated all its space. “The timing was horrible for the owners,” Donohoe said. “When they bought the property in 2006, they put it on a 10-year loan which expired in December, exactly when they had their lowest occupancy to date.” Intertex sold the building at the height of the market and bought

Independent film producer Axanar Productions and its owner, Alec Peters, were sued by CBS Studios and Paramount for copyright infringement over a fan film, “Star Trek: Axanar.” Peters is also the founder of Santa Clarita-based Ares Studios. Peters acknowledged that CBS Studios owns all Star Trek copyrights, and said that his production was strictly not for profit. Paramount and CBS sought a judgment that would have stopped production and imposed a $150,000 penalty for each infraction. In May, at the urging of Star Trek Beyond director Justin Lin, Paramount dropped the lawsuit. CBS said it was working on guidelines governing fan films.

While the National Captioning Institute is based in Chantilly, Va., it has an office in Texas, and now one in Santa Clarita. After more than 20 years in Burbank, the nonprofit moved its California office to nearly 5,000 square feet of space on Constellation Road.

The Burbank location, closer to production houses and studios, made sense in the era of moving physical media like video tapes.

Digital media makes that proximity less critical, said Jill Toshi, President and CEO. NCI produces 150,000 hours of closed captioning services each year in English and Spanish, reaching millions of viewers, including the hearing impaired and those in noisy places like airports and gyms.

it back for millions less, he said.

Entertaining the Masses at the Gym MYE Entertainment moved to a new 8,000-square-foot facility on Westinghouse Place in Valencia. The company, with 18 core employees and another 40 engaged in research and development, designs and manufactures wireless audio technology, including LCD TV audio/video connections for fitness equipment in gyms. MYE works with equipment makers like Cybex, Life Fitness, Matrix, Precor, Octane, Star Trac, StairMaster, and SportsArt. The privately held company ships more than 40,000 wireless receivers and 25,000 LCD TVs a year for the commercial fitness industry.

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■ MYE Entertainment. Photo by Dan Watson.

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CDS Doors LLC relocated to the Santa Clarita Valley to accommodate its growth in the market for freezer and cooler glass display doors for supermarkets and other retail outlets. The company moved from San Fernando to a nearly 50,000-square-foot building on Sierra Highway in Canyon Country that once housed Morton Manufacturing.

“It was always our goal to own a facility in order to be self-sufficient,” said co-owner Fernando Calderon, who started the company in 2002 with Tim Karnes and Duane Beswick. They drew on decades of experience in the design, engineering and manufacturing of refrigerated glass doors. The company has 40 employees.

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After launching the Industry Cluster Attraction Incentive program in partnership with Los Angeles County in 2014, the Santa Clarita Valley Economic Development Corp. issued a check for $23,694 to Richard Photo Lab in January after the firm relocated to Santa Clarita last year with 38 employees. The money reimbursed fees incurred associated with See 2016, page 11

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represented the seller, Flight Logistics Inc., and Matt Sreden from NAI Capital’s Valencia office represented the buyer, D-Rock LLC.

Continued from page 10 the relocation including sanitation district fees, which can be onerous and challenging for businesses, said Holly Schroeder, president and CEO of the SCVEDC. The incentive helped remove an obstacle of relocating to the region. Launched with a $200,000 fund to attract new businesses in the area’s target industry clusters, the economic group is able to award up to $40,000 to a business.

MannKind Believes its Troubles are its Opportunity Reports swirled of a possible sale of MannKind, Santa Clarita biomedical device maker. Reuters reported that MannKind was working with investment bankers on options.

In January, MannKind announced a licensing agreement with a Receptor Life Sciences Inc., a Seattle-based group of investors, for technology to deliver via inhaled powder a pharmaceutical ingredient they have proprietary access to. MannKind faced major upheavals in its path toward widespread marketing and sale of its inhalable insulin drug Afrezza. After 10 years of research and development, multiple Food and Drug Administration clinical trials, and finally FDA approval in 2014, a deal with Paris-based Sanofi to market and distribute Afrezza in 2015 fizzled quickly as sales failed to ramp up. Sanofi terminated the agreement.

Printing Technology Solutions Firm Moves to SCV

■ Cicoil Corp. in Valencia. Photo by Dan Watson.

home to Santa Clarita. The hometown and homegrown newspaper had been owned by Georgia-based Morris Multimedia group for 37 years. Now privately owned, the Paladin Multi-Media Group consists of Charles F. Champion, longtime business partner Gary Sproule, and former Signal Publisher Russ Briley.

Fulfillment Firm Leases Third Warehouse Family-owned and operated Valencia Fulfillment leased its third building, 15,000 square feet of additional space on Avenue Stanford in the Valencia Industrial Center.

Launched in the garage of President Jose Corona 15 years earlier, Valencia Fulfillment tracks sales of over $3 million annually and employs 40 people. New clients necessitated finding a third building for the growing business. With its main office on Hasley Canyon Road in Castaic, Valencia Fulfillment differs slightly from other fulfillment companies like AMS Fulfillment, he said. While Valencia Fulfillment manages order fulfillment, and maintains and ships inventory to clients, the firm also does some light manufacturing and bulk assembly, often packaging multiple products into kits which then go out to its clients warehouses for distribution.

“NCIS” Celebrates 300th Episode ■ Valencia Fullfillment. Photo by Dan Watson.

MARCH To the Moon and Back for Santa Clarita Firm Santa Clarita-based Cicoil can lay claim to a rare status: their products directly supported the life of Apollo astronauts. And in a chance opportunity, a long-lost flat cable harness produced by the company came up for auction from a private collection – and came back to the place it was made 50 years earlier. The flat high performance cables, embedded in lightweight ribbons of materials for maximum flexibility, enabled continuous monitoring of vital signs, such as blood pressure, respiration, body temperature and pulse rate for each astronaut during flight and orbit – and for the spacewalk of Apollo 9 astronauts in 1969. The firm, founded in 1956 to replace stiff bulky cables for companies like IBM and the aerospace industry, moved to Valencia in 1986.

It employs 85 and serves clients that include Raytheon, Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Space X.

New Media Team Puts Control of SCV News Group Back in Local Hands The SCVBJ welcomed new owners last year, the Paladin Multi-Media Group. In a stunning announcement in December 2015, ownership of the 96-year old Signal newspaper and the Business Journal, came

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The long-running TV show “NCIS” starring Mark Harmon celebrated filming its 300th episode at their studio in Santa Clarita in February. The episode aired in March. “It was a lofty benchmark to get to,” said Evan Thomason, economic development associate for the city of Santa Clarita’s Film Office.

“It’s almost unheard of in the TV industry. It speaks to the tremendous popularity of one of America’s favorite shows.” A locally-based TV show, “NCIS” is now in its 13th season and has been renewed for two more. Its forerunner was “JAG,” which also filmed in Santa Clarita.

“It’s many of the same group of people that have filmed out here for 20-plus years,” said Kelli Lajer, with the city’s film office. “A ton of people now own houses out here; they moved here and raised their families. It’s perhaps the longest running crew ever.”

RV Park Invests $1.1M in Solar Power Seeking to lower energy bills soaring over $20,000 per month in the summer months, Castaic Lake RV Park invested $1.1 million to install solar panels. The recreational vehicle park opened in 1979 as a KOS - Kampgrounds of America - park. Today, four owner/partners, including two second-generation owners, operate the park on Ridge Route Road, a half mile from Castaic Lake. The four got together and decided to install solar, said Ray Graeber, general manager for the past 25 years. “We applied for a loan in April 2015, but it took the bank over four months to approve it.” The RV park then waited for California Edison’s permission to operate, which

came in February. With 103 full hook-up sites plus six overflow sites, along with 200 storage sites for RVs and boats, Castaic Lake RV Park has 309 sites. The owners wanted to increase profits by saving on operating expenses, and be green at the same time, Graeber said.

NAI Capital’s Valencia Office Closes Deals NAI Capital’s Santa Clarita office wrapped up multiple deals with the $8.8 million sale of a Van Nuys industrial property, and the $2.1 million sale of an industrial property on Avenue Stanford in Valencia – which led to two more deals. Yair Haimoff, executive vice president and branch manager of NAI Capital, sold the 54,597 square foot multitenant Gloria Densmore Park consisting of 4 buildings at Gloria and Densmore avenues.

Haimoff represented the buyer, REX Investment LLC. The seller was Camillus T. and Phyllis V. Decinces. The total sale price was $8,783,000. In a deal which also closed escrow in February, Haimoff represented the seller on the $2.1 million sale of a 17,775 square foot freestanding building on a 32,000 square foot property at 25334 Avenue Stanford. Haimoff

After growing their print services company into one which harnesses hardware and software technology solutions to fit its clients’ workflow processes, Image 2000 relocated to Santa Clarita. Purchasing a building appraised at $2.9 million in the Valencia Industrial Center in a 1031-exchange, for property owned in Van Nuys, the 120-employee company simply needed more warehouse space as it expanded its services to multiple locations including Fresno, Bakersfield, Buena Park, Orange County, Inland Empire and Las Vegas, NV, said an executive. “We wanted more warehouse space than we could get in Van Nuys, which lacked quality warehouse space for a reasonable price,” said CEO Joe Blatchford. “And there’s a better of quality of life in Santa Clarita.” The new space has 22,500 square feet of space.

Valencia Firm Powers Sound at Super Bowl 50, Grammy Awards When Super Bowl 50 headed into halftime Feb. 7, Santa Clarita-based ATK Audiotek took over, providing audio and system integration services halftime entertainment, as it had for pregame activities. Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Beyoncé and Bruno Mars took the stage to entertain 72,000 fans at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. Another 111.9 million viewers tuned in to watch the game. Privately owned by three partners – president Michael MacDonald, CTO/vice president-engineering Scott Harmala, and vice president of special See 2016, page 13

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THE LIST

DECEMBER 2016

Web Design Companies (Ranked by Full Time Employees)

#

Firm Name

1

Scorpion Internet Marketing

2

Fresh Element, Inc.

3

# Year est.

Employees in SCV (Full/Part)

Services offered

Top local executive

Company Contact Information

1999

Web design, internet marketing, law firm web designing, search engine optimization, search engine Rustin Kretz, CEO and Founder marketing

28480 Ave. Stanford, Ste. 100, Valencia 661-702-0100 www.scorpion.co

6/65

2004

Full-service web services, web development, design, hosting, maintenance, security, search engine optimiRoger Doumanian, CEO zation, pay-per-click, social media marketing, email marketing

24353 Walnut St., Newhall 661-295-3333, fax 661-295-3336 www.info@freshelement.com

Status Not Quo

21

2008

Web Design

26336 Citrus Street, Valencia, CA 91355 888-767-0767 www.statusquo.com

4

WSI Internet Consulting

5

2005

Internet marketing, search engine optimization, payper-click, social media, email marketing, web design Alison Lindemann, Owner and development, video marketing

27433 Tourney Rd., Ste: 280, Valencia 661255-8292 www.completewsiesolutions.com

5

Small Dog Creative

4/2

2007

Web development, search engine optimization, online marketing, graphic design, marketing consulta- Anya Smilanick, Owner tion, social media management

25031 Ave. Stanford, Ste. 70, Valencia 661-702-1310 www.SmallDogCreative.com

6

SCV HomeTown Web

4/2

2011

Custom web development and graphic sevices, hosting, global design, print media designs, maintenance Joshua Maddux, Owner and site creation, web application programming

661-347-1426 www.scvhometownweb.com

7

Spark Inbound Marketing

2/7

2000

Website and blog design and development, search engine optimization, content marketing, social media Cristi Spahr, President marketing

25060 Ave. Tibbitts, Ste. B, Valencia 661-294-8585 www.yourdrawingboard.com

8

Margolis-West Graphics

1/2

2003

Graphic design, website design, website maintenance, content management systems, hosting, domain name Joan Margolis-West, Art Director capturing, search engine optimization

25379 Wayne Mills Pl., Ste. 293, Valencia 661-255-6648 www.margoliswest.com

9

TAP Solutions

1

2000

Web design, website development, website and print graphics, Microsoft Excel Macros, development and Warren Schultz, Owner support, general programming

31326 Cherry Dr., Castaic. CA 91384 818-281-7628 www.tapsolutions.net

10

Red Dragonfly Web Design

1

2009

Web design, web hosting, email marketing, domain Jackie McKnelly, President and name management, monthly maintenance Founder

24540 Breckenridge Pl., Santa Clarita 661-600-2248, 661-799-3348 www.reddragonflyweb.com

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Red Dragonfly Web Design

1/1

2009

Web design, web hosting, email marketing, domain Jackie McKnelly, President and name management, monthly maintenance Founder

24540 Breckenridge Pl., Santa Clarita 661-600-2248, 661-799-3348 www.reddragonflyweb.com

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Vision Online Services

2009

Social media services, custom applications, e-commerce, websites, search engine optimization, mainteAlyssa Renne, Owner nance and updates for website pluggins, and hosting, website design and development, product conversions

Santa Clarita, CA 661-735-1768 www.visiononlineservices.com

THE LIST

298

1

Scott Capistrano

The Inc. 2016 500/5000 List of Fastest Growing Companies

(Ranked by 2015 Revenue )

# of Years 3-Year growth on List

2015 Revenue

2014 Revenue

272%

$73.3 M

$42.7 M

0

226%

$53 M

$17.2 M

2635

5

134%

$39 M

$36 M

Santa Clarita

2882

5

120%

$16.1 M

$2.5 M

Valencia

3091

0

110%

$45.2 M

$8.8 M

Company

Year Estab.

Industry

Located

Inc. Rank

Scorpion

2001

Internet Marketing

Valencia

1402

5

KRG Technologies

2003

IT Services

Valencia

1656

AMG & Associates

2006

Construction

Santa Clarita

Dazadi

2002

Retail

Landscape Development

1983

Construction

Source: Editors of Inc. magazine

DECEMBER 2016

2016 Continued from page 11 events Mikael Stewart– ATK Audiotek started in Burbank but relocated to Santa Clarita Valley nearly nine years ago. Occupying 55,000 square feet of space for inventory, and with 75 employees, the firm’s been in business for 33 years. Its business is roughly comprised of 60 percent televised events and 40 percent built on integration of systems for other companies.

SCV’s Honda Performance Development Gears Up Honda renewed its commitment to North America’s IndyCar open-wheel racing series.

American Honda and its racing subsidiary, Santa Clarita-based Honda Performance Development (HPD), have an agreement to continue as a manufacturer in the IndyCar Series through 2017, with an option to extend the agreement through the 2020 season.

Honda has been a part of open-wheel racing since the founding of the performance center in 1993 when it entered the now retired racing league, Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART), in 1994. HPD operates out of a 167,000-square-foot building in Santa Clarita. The two-story facility houses motorsports research and development operations, including design, development engineering, prototype, and production parts manufacturing. Honda’s success includes 217 race victories, 15 drivers’ championships, six competitive manufacturers’ championships, and 10 Indianapolis 500 victories since 2004.

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SCV businesses who continued to expand – and for other companies choosing Santa Clarita as their new home.

Auto Club Moving Valencia Claims Unit The Automobile Club of Southern California moved its Tourney Road operations in Valencia to an office building on Turnberry Lane, a broker for the deal said.

Representing the landlord, Great Point Investors, Colliers International senior vice presidents Kevin Fenenbock and John Erickson leased the entire ground floor, some 29,000 square feet, in a building at the Summit at Valencia business park, representing about half the building. “This will be the largest new lease transaction in Santa Clarita for over 10 years,” Fenenbock said.

■ Juan Alonso of Le Chene restaurant. Photo by Dan Watson.

U.S. Labor Department Obtains $1.1M Judgment Against Gruber Systems and CEO The U.S. Department of Labor won a million-dollar judgment against Santa

Clarita-based Gruber Systems Inc., Gruber Systems Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan, and CEO John Hoskinson, accused of misusing employee retirement account funds.

See 2016, page 15

Hyatt Hotel Changes Hands The Hyatt Regency Valencia hotel on Town Center Drive in Santa Clarita changed ownership, as Southwest Value Partners Enterprises of San Diego acquired the namebrand hotel for $50.967 million. Built in 1998, the hotel has 244 rooms. With 180,450 square feet, it is the only venue in Santa Clarita with space to host large conferences, luncheons or dinners. Newhall Land & Farming Company built the hotel, with the city contributing money to help expand the conference room at the hotel.

APRIL Special Report: Crushing the Wine Industry Whether you make it, gift it, or drink it – the wine industry in Los Angeles County has been crushed by burdensome rules imposed by the county’s health department – and, not only did we shed light on the issues, we discussed major changes in a Special Report.

Coverage including a look at California’s winery industry, attempts to build a wine market in Cuba, celebrity vintners, and a look back at the infamous Saugus wine heist.

First Significant Industrial Building in a Decade Breaks Ground A year after groundbreaking, Phase I of new building construction at the International Airport Centers (IAC) Commerce Center began in April. Construction of the 116-acre business park marks the first significant industrial park to be built in the Santa Clarita Valley in a decade. Sitting on the hills adjacent to the Valencia Commerce Center off Witherspoon Parkway, the IAC Center will ultimately offer 1.3 million square feet of much-needed warehouse space. Vacancy rates have remained at record lows as the recession brought construction nearly to a halt, yet the lack of new building put a stranglehold on some

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THE LIST

DECEMBER 2016

Largest Commercial Brokers (Ranked by number of local brokers)

Brokerage

# Brokers (SCV/LA)

Total Value of Deals in 2015

SCV Sales/Deals

SCV Leases/Deals

Profile (HQ, year founded)

1

CBRE Group, Inc.

34/223

$22 Million

$1,080,236,029 / 113

$962,568,101 / 747

Los Angeles, 1906

David Josker, Managing Director

234 S. Brand Boulevard, Glendale 818-502-6700 www.cbre.com

2

NAI Capital

15/122

$1,525,809,000

$848,250,824 / 343

$677,558,176 / 1,684

Encino, 1979

Yair Haimoff, Branch Manager

27451 Tourney Road, Suite 220, Santa Clarita 661-705-3550 www.naicapital.com

3

DAUM Commercial Real Estate Services

10/90

$763,860,000

$20,100,000 / 6

$9,600,000 / 47

Los Angeles, 1904

28494 Westinghouse Pl., Ste. 203 Valencia Chad Jacobson, COO 818-449-1626 www.daumcommercial.com"

4

Colliers

8/160

$4,168,324,141

$7,901,005 / 6

$49,027,224 / 131

Seattle, 1976

Kevin Fenenbock, Sr. VP

27200 Tourney Road #300, Valencia, 661-259-9200 www.colliers.com

5

illi Commercial Real Estate

4/35

$67,010,230

N/A

$2,110,500 / 5

Encino, 2007

Todd Nathanson, President

17547 Ventura Blvd., Ste. 304, Encino 818-501-2212 www.illicre.com

6

Jones Lang LaSalle

NA

2014: N/A 2013: $1,645,000/2

2014: N/A 2013: $8,562,279/13

Chicago, 1999

Alan Aufhammer, Managing Director

21080 Centre Pointe Pkwy., Ste 102 Santa Clarita 661-964-6206 www.us.joneslanglasalle.com/losangeles

7/69

Top Local Executive

Contact

N/A = Data Not Available

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2016 Continued from page 13 Hoskinson also briefly served as the director of the Small Business Development Center in Santa Clarita. A suit, filed as a result an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration, alleged that the defendant’s actions resulted in losses to the Gruber employee retirement plan. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson ordered Gruber and Hoskinson to pay the company’s employee retirement fund $1.1 million within 30 calendar days of the Jan. 28 judgment. They were fined $220,000 in civil penalties.

Cowboy at Heart, Actor Serves Up Movie Props, Horses and Ranch Actor and Caravan West Productions owner Peter Sherayko parlayed a movie career, love of acting and many western film roles into a one-stop film ranch in Agua Dulce for “everything western.” Perhaps best known for his role in the movie “Tombstone,” this old cowboy walks, drives and rides by horse the some 2,400 acres of his Agua Dulce ranch - or caravans around the country buying antiques and western memorabilia to survey the property and ensure everything remains pristine and authentically western to the film and television industry. Preserving collection of western guns and rifles, more saddles, cowboys hats, historic costumes, an old general store and a library of 5,000 on the Old West and American history, make Caravan West the one-stop shop for everything from movies to commercials to documentaries. In 2014, Caravan West Productions hosted 47 movies, TV shows, and commercials on the ranch.

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scant progress was made to develop a cohesive, strategic plan to build up the infrastructure.

Progress to date has taken place in silos – by private parties making piecemeal attempts to patch service together. One case is the owners of the Mann Biomedical Park, who invested tens of thousands of dollars to build a world class business park by negotiating a fiber deal with Time Warner, committing to deliver a number of tenants as customers to the provider. “We paid to bring it to the park,” said President Dale Donohoe of Intertex. “We were quoted $150,000, but got down to the ballpark of (paying) tens of thousands less by showing them the number of businesses they’d have hooking up to it.”

Aerospace Firm Lamsco Moves into Ultra-Modern Facility Aerospace supplier Lamsco West Inc. of

■ A Valley Disconnnected. Photo by Dan Watson.

Santa Clarita opened its 75,000 square foot building on The Old Road by Henry Mayo Drive – a move that cost the company some $4 million to double its space and increase

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$3.1M Loan Finances Apartment Renovation in Santa Clarita Lending company iBorrow made $3.1 million available to an undisclosed party for the purchase and renovation of two residential properties in Newhall, said the lending company’s executive. Built in 1995, the property sits on about a one-third acre and has four buildings with four units each, said Brian Good, CEO of iBorrow. The loan on the apartment complex includes a 26,747 square foot lot with 16 one- and two-bedroom units.

It also includes four two-car parking garages and an additional 24 surface parking lots. The new owner is gutting and rehabbing each unit.

Economists: No Hints of Recession Economists at the Santa Clarita Economic Outlook Conference said key economic measurements do not point to a recession occurring anytime soon. But if anything is hindering growth locally, it has been the absence of new construction – residential and commercial – in the Santa Clarita Valley, according to Mark Schniepp, director of the California Economic Forecast. “Don’t pack up the recession bags yet,” Schniepp said. “We just don’t see it.” Mark Vitner, senior economist for Wells Fargo, pegged the risk of recession at somewhere between 23 and 25 percent – a number he deemed to be very low risk. The lowest the risk of recession ever gets is 15 percent, he said.

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which includes the Patios, the standalone drive through Chick-fil-A, a Saddle Ranch Chop House, and a long-awaited Cheesecake Factory, opening in the Fall at the mall. The changing landscape is a trend at malls with the advent of the sharply rising number of Internet shoppers. “We don’t consider ourselves a mall at all,” House said. “While we’re a shopping center where retail exists, we’re also curating a social interaction component, something with entertainment value to socially connect friends and family with all the various events we host.”

Continued from page 15 parts to its clients. “With the official opening of this new facility, we are absolutely delighted to be cementing the foundations for the next phase of exciting growth at Lamsco,” said CEO Howard Kimberley. Its high-tech computerized machinery is well lit, has heavy duty ceiling insulation that drop the ambient temperature by 10 to 15 degrees, and a special massive environmental ducting system that continuously sucks out dust or debris from the shop. Water used in the manufacturing process is cleaned and recycled, eliminating discharge into the sewer systems.

■ Lamsco President Steve Griffith holding an aircraft shim. Photo by Tom Cruze.

SCV Hotel Room Demand Exceeded Supply During Gas Leak

New Beginning for New Beginning Stone

The nearly five-month massive leak at the Aliso Canyon gas wells in Porter Ranch drove residents from their homes and into temporary housing within a 50-mile radius of the leak.

Declared one of the worst natural gas leak in U.S. history in terms of its environmental impact, relocating Porter Ranch residents had an unintended economic benefit for hotels and rental properties in the Santa Clarita Valley.

In a market already in need of more hotels – and with at least three more planned for the future – demand exceeded supply. Four area hotels were sold out April 11 through 13, and rates were up from last October at 9 of 12 hotels. Still, rates remained below the average rate for a room in a Los Angeles hotel.

Tile and stone manufacturer New Beginning Stone Inc. decided to relocate from Van Nuys to Santa Clarita, said the commercial broker who helped the company make the selection. Launched in 2000, the company has completed thousands of custom fabrications and installations of granite slab kitchen counters, vanity tops, tub decks, shower walls, fireplace hearths and surrounds, outdoor kitchens and barbeques. New Beginning Stone is moving into the Saugus Industrial Center on Springbrook Ave., said Pamela Verner of SCV Commercial Real Estate Services. The firm represented both the tenant and the landlord - Saugus Industrial Center LLC. In need of larger space, the firm signed a three-year lease on the property, she said. Additional terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

Stevenson Ranch Plaza sold for $72.5 million

■ Aliso Canyon. AP photo.

Sunset Pointe Plaza Sold to Local Investors One of the more recognizable office buildings in the Santa Clarita Valley, the three-story, all brick Sunset Pointe Plaza, built in 1988, sitting prominently on The Old Road off I-5 has come home to local ownership. The deal closed April 1, with the sale being reported for $9.1 million. Representing the institutional seller, Blackstone, Colliers International sold the 59,000 square foot building to a group of local investors, who purchased the building as Legacy Holdings Sunset Plaza LLC.

Qiagen: Making Improvements in Life Possible In May, we profiled Qiagen (pronounced Ky-gen), a firm providing technical and sales support to the life sciences industry, a field that helps improve the quality and standard of life. Qiagen is behind a new blood test for tuberculosis – eliminating the under the skin test of the past – and helped actress Angelie Jolie determine which DNA marker she carried for breast cancer, as well as to exonerate a man in July 2014 who was imprisoned 26 years for a murder he didn’t commit. Working with biological materials like blood, bodily fluids, skin and other body materials, the company creates test kits used by medical personnel to provide reliable diagnoses for patients in laboratories, and scores of hospitals and research centers.

The Stevenson Ranch Plaza in the Santa Clarita Valley was sold for $72.5 million to InvenTrust Properties Corp. of Illinois. Located at the corner of Pico Canyon and The Old Road, the retail center is anchored by Ralphs, and includes LA Fitness, PetSmart and Stein Mart as tenants. “We are excited to announce the acquisition of Stevenson Ranch Plaza, a premier retail center with a top-tier grocer in one of the largest retail markets in the U.S.,” Michael E. Podboy, Executive Vice President – CFO and CIO of InvenTrust said in a statement. The retail center represents a chance for the property investment company to expand its presence in Southern California, in an area marked by strong residential growth, high traffic, and strong demographics.

CEO Oscar Ramirez. The company has 20 employees.

Ken & Joe’s Motorcycle Dealer Relocates Ken & Joe’s, franchise dealers for Honda, Kawasaki and KTM motorcycles, is moving to a new Santa Clarita location at 21616 Golden Triangle, near Centre Pointe Parkway with two other motorcycle dealerships nearby, said Rick Hawn, broker with Realty Executives - Commercial Division. Busting at the seams, finding a new location was tricky, Hawn said because the City of Santa Clarita has strict requirements for motorcycle sales and service. But he was able to help strike a deal on the new space, allowing Ken & Joe’s to expand from 8,000 to 14,000 square feet of space. It had been operating in a smaller building on Bouquet Canyon Road. Ken & Joe’s signed a seven-year lease with two threeyear options. Reid, who bought the business in 2011, expects to add a few more employees to the 17 or 18 he already has.

New Life for Art Deco Auditorium Lundgren Management officials broke ground on a $4.8 million renovation project for the Newhall School District in March that will bring the Newhall Elementary School’s

JUNE Special Report: Marijuana Industry We provided comprehensive coverage of the marijuana industry and its growing impact, including a look at Proposition 64, a proposal to legalize recreational use of pot.

The ballot measure passed in November with a 56 percent yet vote. The special report included a look at the new frontier for the nation’s biggest cash crop, a still largely underground, industry, an interview with Lori Ajax, California’s first chief of the state’s Bureau of Medical Marijuana, and analysis of how banks are stuck in the middle, since marijuana is illegal in the eyes of the federal government, but legal in many states. Other stories include the implications in L.A. County as commercial marijuana growers seek to lease industrial warehouse space as grow houses, a look at the scope of the industry, chances that the federal Drug Enforcement Administration might reclassify marijuana, a summary of companies jumping into the industry, and a reminder that not all marijuana crops are ‘bad’ – hemp had been outlawed by the state years ago, but it’s now legal and being used for a range of products from cosmetics to clothing.

Flextronics Building Sold A state-of-the-art industrial building that houses Flextronics, a high-tech business serving the aerospace, defense, and medical device industries, has been sold to Los Angeles-based Rexford Industrial Realty L.P. Flextronics will continue to operate out of the facility. Located at 28454 Livingston Avenue, the industrial building has 134,287 square feet and sits on nearly 14 acres. CBRE brokers Craig Peters and Doug Sonderegger represented both the buyer and the seller, LNR Gateway V LLC/28454 Livingston, LLC.

Aerospace Firm Moves to Valencia from North Hollywood Aerospace company Air Bolt Group of North Hollywood signed a 10-year lease in March for an 8,500 square foot building on Avenue Crocker in the Valencia Industrial Center. NAI Capital helped broker the deal.

Additional terms of the lease were not disclosed. Air Bolt manufactures latches, struts, buts and bolts for commercial aircraft. “We specifically wanted to be in Santa Clarita because we’re seeing growth in the aerospace industries here and want to be part of it,” said

■ Marijuana Industry. iStock photo.

Art Deco auditorium into the modern age while preserving its legacy. Built in 1941, the auditorium has primarily served as storage space since the 1970s. When complete, it will include state-of-the-art audio/visual capabilities, energy-efficient lighting, expanded stage space, improved acoustics and seating for nearly 550. The project will also include the addition of a new outside patio suitable for event receptions.

Mall Morphing into Social Interaction Center Up to 7,000 square feet of parking lot space at the Westfield Valencia Town Center was set aside to build a restaurant pad at the corner of Citrus Street and Magic Mountain Pkwy.

Once built, the space can accommodate one to three restaurants, said Stacie House, a spokesperson with the mall. The latest restaurant development reflects a growing presence of restaurant options at the shopping center

Two Grocery-Anchored Retail Centers Sell Within a Month Bouquet Center in Saugus, anchored by Vons grocery, and the Stevenson Ranch Plaza, anchored by Ralphs, were sold by the Hanley Investment Group within one month.

ROIC - Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. – purchased Bouquet Center in a 1031 exchange. The investment group pursues stabilized grocery-anchored shopping centers, and also handles their own rentals. Bold dark blue lease signs went up at the shopping center almost as soon as escrow closed. The Stevenson Ranch Plaza sold for $72.5 million. Ed Hanley and Kevin Fryman of Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors represented both the buyer and the seller, a Los Angeles-based private investor, in the Stevenson Ranch transaction. It is 97 percent leased and was purchased by a self-managed Real See 2016, page 19

DECEMBER 2016

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Local Retailers (Ranked by year established)

THE LIST Rank

17

Retailer

Year est. in SCV

Retail type

Number of employees

Top local executive

Contact info

1

Teague Custom Marine

1972

Marine engines, parts, accessories, service and high performance parts

17

Bob Teague, Owner & President

28115 Avenue Standford, Valencia 661-295-7000 teaguecustommarine.com

2

Steve's Valencia Florist

1974

Florist

7

Steve Hanauer, owner

23760 Lyons Ave, Newhall 661-287-3660 www.stevesvalenciaflorist.com

3

Douglas Furniture

1974

Furniture, lighting, mattresses, home accessories

12

Doug Green, Owner

23661 Newhall Ave., Newhall 661-255-8421 dougfurn.com

4

Consumers Furniture Gallery

1978

Furniture, home accessories, matresses

20

Greg Moser, Owner

21048 Golden Triangle Rd. Saugus 661-259-9609 www.consumersfurniture.com

5

Brent's Carpet One

1979

Flooring

8

Brent Griffiths, Owner

24220 Lyons Ave., Newhall 661-255-3337 brentscarpetonenewhall.com

6

A Chorus Line

1982

Dancewear, costumes

7

Reena Newhall, Jana Einaudi, Beth Culhane, Owners

23300 Cinema Dr., Santa Clarita 661-253-0300 achorusline.net

22

Jim Berkebile, General Manager

27641 Bouquet Canyon Rd., Saugus 661-296-3980 saugusdrugs.com

25

Kathy Allie, Owner

24335 Magic Mountain Pkwy., Valencia 661-253-0209 cobblestone-cottage.com

7

Saugus Drugs

1984

Prescription products, medical supplies, gifts, Hallmark greeting cards, cosmetics, wellness center and digital photo printing

8

Cobblestone Cottage

1987

Women's apparel, jewelry, shoes, accessories, home and garden décor

9

Celebrity Beauty Supply & Salon

1989

Hair and beauty supplies, accessories

26

Francine Gleckman, Owner

26508 Bouquet Canyon Rd., Santa Clarita 661-296-3777 24142 Lyons Ave. Newhall 661-253-1355

10

Keyboard Galleria Music Center

1989

Musical instruments, accessories, sheet music, music lessons

3

Dennis, Manager

21515 Soledad Canyon Rd., Suite #120, Santa Clarita 661-259-5397 keyboardgalleria.com

11

Brave New World Comics

1990

Comics, collectibles, T-shirts, posters, graphic novels, games

6

Mike, Owner/manager

22722 Lyons Avenue #2, Newhall 661-259- 4745 bravenewworldcomics.com

12

Classic Designs Jewelry

1992

Jewelry

5

Apo Yessayan, Owner

24260 Valencia Blvd., Santa Clarita 661-254-4155 classicdesignsjewelry.com

13

Nick Rail Music

2001

Band and orchestra instruments, with school instrument focus

7

Harrison, Manager

25868 McBean Pkwy., Valencia 661-288-2345 nickrailmusic.com

14

Ma Maison

2003

Home and garden décor, beauty and bath, gifts and baby

2

Denise Myers, Owner

24261 1/2 Main St., Newhall 661-799-7983 ma-maisonandgift.com

15

Runners Lane

2004

Runnning shoes, apparel, accessories

6

Flo Mina, Owner

22959 Soledad Canyon Rd., Santa Clarita 661-260-3368 runnerslane.com

16

Luscious Soul

2012

Women's apparel, jewelry, home décor, gifts

1

Kelly Phillipson, Owner

22700 #B Lyons Ave., #B, Newhall 661-799-7685 luscioussoul.com

17

Mugzey Muzic

2012

Musical instruments

1

Louie Concotilli, Owner

18350-A Soledad Canyon Rd., Santa Clarita 661-299-1133 mugzeymuzic.com

18

Luscious Soul

2012

Women's apparel, jewelry, home décor, gifts

1

Kelly Phillipson, Owner

22700 #B Lyons Ave., #B, Newhall 661-799-7685 luscioussoul.com

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DECEMBER 2016

SCV Dealerships 2015 Sales (Ranked by total sales)

Rank

Dealership

# Of Cars Sold in 2015

New/Used

On-site service center

Year est. in SCV

Top local executive

1

Frontier Toyota Scion

5,100

Y/Y

Y

1986

Bob Corson, G.M.

23621 Creekside Rd., Valencia 661-255-7575 • www.frontiertoyota.com

2

Valencia BMW

3,939

Y/Y

Y

1999

Chuck Coia, GM

23435 Valencia Blvd. Valencia 661-254-8000 • www.valenciabmw.com

3,134

Y/Y

Y/Y

1991

Steve O'Keefe, G.M.

24050 Creekside Rd., Valencia 661-253-4441 • www.goparkway.com

2,668

Y/Y

Y

1999

Sam Dimaggio, GM

23551 Magic Mountain Pkwy., Valencia 661-200-9110 • www.autonationhondavalencia.com

Contact information

4

Parkway Motorcars Valencia (GM, Hyundai, VW) AutoNation Honda Valencia

5

AutoNation Ford Valencia

2,184

Y/Y

Y

1978 (1996 as Autonation)

Chance Corbett, G.M.

6

Lexus of Valencia

2,004

Y/Y

Y

2000

Robert Rizzo, GM

24033 Creekside Rd., Valencia 661-260-2000 • www.lexusofvalencia.com

7

Galpin Subaru and Mazda

1,996

Y/Y

Y

2004

Dan Sterkel, G.M.

23645 Creekside Rd., Valencia 888-510-2004 • www.santaclaritasubaru.com

8

Autonation Chevrolet Valencia

1,929

Y/Y

Y

1978

Mark Lecompte, GM

9

Valencia Chrysler Dodge Jeep RAM

1,500

Y/Y

Y

2010

Carlos Dominguez, G.M.

10

Mini of Valencia

1,202

Y/Y

Y

2013

Eric Tran, G.M.

23649 Valencia Blvd., Valencia 661-877-4076 • www.autonationchevroletvalencia.com 23820 Creekside Rd., Valencia 661-259-8770 www.autonationchryslerdodgejeepramvalencia.com 24135 Creekside Rd, Valencia 661-666-2980 • www.miniofvalencia.com

11

Nissan of Valencia

1,200

Y/Y

Y

1978

Fred Luna, G.M.

24111 Creekside Rd., Valencia 661-255-2020 • www.nissanofvalencia.com

12

Valencia Acura

1,010

Y/Y

Y

1989

Cheryl and Don Fleming, President/ Owner

23955 Creekside Rd., Valencia 661-255-3000 • www.valenciaacura.com

13

Audi Valencia

235

Y/Y

Y

2014

Rob Smith, GM

23923 Creekside Road, Valencia 888-626-6138 • www.audivalencia.com

14

Mercedes-Benz of Valencia*

DND

Y/Y

Y

2005

Jason Kosova

23355 Valencia Blvd., Valencia 661-753-5555 • www.mbzvalencia.com

15

Valencia Chrysler Dodge Jeep RAM*

DND

Y/Y

Y

2010

Dirk Mills, GM

3

23920 Creekside Rd., Valencia 661-255-6600 • www.autonationfordvalencia.com

23820 Creekside Rd., Valencia , CA 91355 661-259-8770 • www.valenciacdjr.com

*=These are the dealerships who participated in the SCVBJ’s survey. Mercedes-Benz, KIA and Audi dealerships did not respond.

The Agency contracts with PlanetBids to manage its bidding and purchasing process. Vendors are encouraged to register with PlanetBid at https://clwa.org/doing-business. Registration is simple and free. Once registered as a vendor, you will receive email notifications about bid opportunities, and will be able to download a bid information package.

DECEMBER 2016

THE LIST

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19

Largest Digital Media Companies (Ranked by # of Employees)

Company

# Employees

California Institute of the Arts

690

Arvato Digital

Company

# Employees

Name

Address

Title

Title

Address

Steven Lavine

President

24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia 91355

The Attraction Services Co., Inc

19

Melissa Townsend

President

25625 Hercules Street, Valencia 91355

382

Dominik Dittrik

Executive Vice President

29011 Commerce Center Dr., Valencia 91355

Mobiltape Company Inc.

15

Michael Zeilinger

President

24730 Avenue Tibbitts Unit 170

Scorpion Internet Marketing

250

Rustin Kretz

28480 Avenue Stanford #100, Valencia 91355

AV West LLC

11

Fred Scripture

Member

19965 Rhona Place

Deluxe Digital Media Mgt Inc

172

Michael Alvarez Sr

Manager

29125 Avenue Paine, Valencia 91355

Big Fish Audio Inc. 11

Tom Meadows

President

29033 Avenue Sherman

Wayforward

100

John Beck

Chief Executive Officer

28738 The Old Road, Valencia 91355

Alpha & Omega Entertainment

10

Branden Morris

Owner

24451 Mira Vista Street

ATK Audiotek Corp

72

Michael MacDonald

Owner

28238 Avenue Crocker, Valencia 91355

Alpha Sounds & Lighting Co.

10

John Virden

President

24846 Avenue Rockefeller #100

Andrews Electronics

50

Dan Balor

Vice President

25102 Rye Canyon Loop, Valencia 91355

Background Images Inc.

10

Dan Ellis

President

28159 Avenue Standford Unit 120

Hi Torque Publications

50

R. S. Hinz

President

25233 Anza Dr., Valencia 91355

Caravan West

10

Peter Sherayko

Owner

35660 Jayhawker Rd

Mye Entertainment Inc.

45

Anthony Garcia

President

25129 The Old Road, Ste 305

Cort Howell Productions

10

Cort Howell

Owner

28328 Constellation Rd

Richard Photo Lab

39

Brian Greenberg

Chief Executive Officer

28022 Industry Drive, Valencia 91355

Vista Electronics Inc.

10

Ron Schwab

Owner

28472 Westinghouse Place

Santa Clarita Studios

27

Mike DeLorenzo

President

25135 Anza Drive, Valencia 91355

West Coast Water Tenders

10

Andrew Sarvis

Director

34855 Petersen Rd.

Technifex Products LLC

25

Montgomery Lunde

President and CEO

25261 Rye Canyon Rd., Valencia 91355

7

Jon Corfino

President

25597 Via Velador

Status Not Quo

25

Scott Capistrano

President

26336 Citrus St., Valencia 91355

Attraction Media & Entertainment Inc.

Name

2016

Continued from page 16 Estate Investment Trust, InvenTrust Properties Corp.

Top Commercial Brokers Recognized The region’s top commercial real estate brokers were honored April 28 by the Santa Clarita Valley Economic Development Corporation. Twenty-six brokers were honored for the volume of their transactions in the SCV, as well as for their help in attracting firms to the region. Combined, the brokers recognized closed deals on over 2.5 million square feet of space in the region, according to the SCVEDC. CBRE brokers Craig Peters, Doug Sonderegger, Jeff Woolf, Matt Mallers were specifically credited for a transaction the SCVEDC referred to as a big win for the valley and its residents. Last year, in part, the brokers helped Logix Federal Credit Union make the final decision to relocate their headquarters to Santa Clarita, after being based in Burbank since 1937.

Creekside Place Retail Center Sold for $9.65 Million Escrow closed on the auction held of the Creekside Place retail center on Valencia Blvd., home to anchor tenant Barnes & Noble. The center, built in 1995, went up for auction in late February, within 30 days a buyer surfaced, and by the end of April the deal closed. TenZ, formerly Auction.com, handled the sale of the retail center. Bids began at a minimum of $2 million. Although the retail center sits in a prime spot with plenty of visibility, it has witnessed a revolving door of tenants. Only one tenant, the anchor Barnes and Noble, has remained a steady retail outlet. At one point

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the property was reportedly arrear in property taxes, but it’s unknown who last owned the retail center. The land was originally sold by Newhall Land and Farming to a developer in the ’90s, said a former executive with the company. The winning bid was $9.65 million. Arshia Harrison Refoua was the buyer.

SOURCE: Santa Clarita Valley Econommic Development Corp.

SCVEDC recognizes the leadership shaping our local economy.

HENRY RODRIGUEZ Member Board of Directors

Percussion Legend Remo Belli Dies Remo D. Belli, 88, founder and CEO of Remo Inc. — the Valencia-based maker of drums accessories, died in April. “It was kind of shocking to everyone,” said Remo Inc. President Brock Kaericher. “He touched a lot of people all around the world.” Like a rock star, Remo Belli never went by his last name.

Both he and his company were known simply by one name: Remo. “An innovator, pioneer and icon of the world of percussion, he was an inspiration to us all for breaking new ground and making a difference in the world,” a company statement said. Credited with making drums readily available during the heyday of rock ’n roll, Remo founded his firm in 1957, and invented the first successful synthetic drum skin using Mylar, as traditional animal skins were a problem for drummers in the rain or humidity. He patented the Mylar drum skins — and the rest became history. Remo’s invention became an industry standard.

Newhall Land Folded Into Newly Formed FivePoint Newhall Land, architects of the Valencia master plan and the future Newhall Ranch community, has been folded into a newly formed FivePoint Holdings LLC. The company, named for the family that once owned thousands of acres used for agricultural See 2016, page 21

HENRY RODRIGUEZ and his dedicated

team, determined to be the Insurance and Financial Services agency of choice for their clients and community, serve the people of the Santa Clarita Valley and greater LA area.

Established in 2011, Henry’s State Farm agency is one of the fastest growing and most respected in the country. Henry and his team attribute their success to providing an executive level of customer service to each of the families that they represent. With 24/7 availability, they bring value by customizing insurance and financial service products for every situation.

In 2014, the Henry Rodriguez State Farm agency was recognized by State Farm as a Top 50 agency, which represents the highest level of excellence out of 19,000 agencies within the country.

Henry is a respected community leader, serving on multiple non-profit boards dedicated to children and community improvement.

Regional leadership for a regional economy.

www.stillgolden.org

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THE LIST Rank

DECEMBER 2016

Family Owned Business 2016 (Ranked by Employees)

Company

Family Total # Members of employees the Business

Description of Business

Major Ownership

Top local executive

Contact

1

AMS Fulfillment

360

3

Product and promotional fulfillment

Jay Catlin, Ken Wiseman

Ken Wiseman

29010 Commerce Center Dr., Valencia 661-775-0611 www.amsfulfillment.com jcatlin@amsfulfillment.com, kwiseman@amsfulfilment.com

2

Stay Green Inc.

320

3

Landscape services

Rich Angelo, Char Angelo

Rich Angelo, Chris Angelo

26415 Summit Circle, Santa Clarita 6 61-291-2800 • www.staygreen.com,

3

Canon Recruiting Group

300

3

Staffing and recruiting firm

Laurie Grayem

James Grayem

26531 Summit Circle, Santa Clarita 661-252-7400 www.canonrecruiting.com Tim@canonrecruiting.com, laurie@canonrecruiting,com

4

Andy Gump Temporary Site Services

298

2

Temprorary site services

Barry Gump

Nancy Gump Melancon

26410 Summit Circle, Santa Clarita 661-251-7721 • FAX: 661-251-7729 • www.andygump.com

5

Petersen International Underwriters

48

9

International medical and health insurance, Lloyds of London

Harold, Michael and Thomas Petersen

Harold, Michael and Thomas Petersen

23929 Valencia Blvd. Second Floor, Valencia 661-254-0006 • www.piu.org/ thomaspetersen@piu.org

6

L/B/W/ Insurance & Financial Services, Inc.

36

7

Insurance and financial services

Mitzi Like

Mitzi Like

28055 Smyth Dr., Valencia 661-702-6000 www.lbwinsurance.com, mitzil@lbwinsurance.com

7

AV Party Rentals

30

6

Party and event equipment rentals

Rusty Parr

Rusty Parr

23800 Newhall Ave., Newhall 661-259-2151 • www.avparty.com, rusty@avparty.com

8

Consumers Furniture Gallery

20

2

Furniture

Greg Moser

Mary Moser

9

CBC Cleaning and Restoration

20

2

Emergency disaster cleaning and restoration, residential and commerical

Gordon and Debbie Glasnow

Gordon Glasnow

10

GW Richardson Heating and Air Conditioning

18

4

Heating and air conditioning, solar electricity

Gary and Christy Richardson

Gary and Christy Richardson

21048 Golden Triangle Rd., Saugus 661-259-9609, ex 116 www.consumersfurniture.com, clemmoser@ca.rr.com 25042 Anza Drive, Santa Clarita 661-294-2221, ex 101 • FAX: 661-294-2220 www.cbcfirst.com, debbie@cbfirst.com 28231 Ave Crocker #100, Valencia 661-295-0115 • Fax: 661-295-1450 www.gwrichardsonac.com, ChrisR@GWRichardsonAC.com

11

Accurate Freight Systems

17

2

Transportation and Logistics

Tony Demma

Tony Demma

28908 Avenue Paine, Valencia 91355 661-257-7200 • www.shipafs.com, tony@shipafs.com

12

Teague Custom Marine

17

6

Marine engines, parts, accessories, service and high performance parts

Bob Teague

Bob Teague, Owner & President

28115 Avenue Standford, 91335 Valencia 661-295-7000 www.teaguecustommarine.com cherilyn@teaguecustommarine.com

13

Tea Elle Gardens Café

15

3

Specialty tea restaurant

Ceasar & Gene Ancheta, Jason & Benny Wagner

14

KHTS AM 1220

15

2

Radio station and website/ Hometown Analytics (The Statster)

Carl Goldman, Jeri Seratti Goldman

Jeri Seratti Goldman

15

Visual Terrain

13

2

Special lighting design for architecture, attraction & amusement purposes

Lisa Passamonte Green and David Green

Lisa Passamonte Green, CEO

16

Douglas Furniture

12

4

Furniture

Doug Green

Doug Green

17

Way Station Coffee Shop

12

3

Breakfast and lunch diner

Eric Leeser

Eric Leeser

18

Brent's Carpet One

8

1

flooring sale and installation

Brent & Ben Griffiths

Brent Griffiths

19

Steve's Valencia Florist

7

4

Florist

Steve Hanauer, owner

24377 Main Street, Newhall 661-255-0222 • Eric’s cell: 661-904-2335 facebook.com/waystation1971, waystation1971@gmail.com 24220 Lyons Ave., Newhall 661-388-0687 www.brentscarpetonenewhall.com, ben@brentscarpetone.com 23760 Lyons Ave, Newhall 661-287-3660 www.stevesvalenciaflorist.com, janhanuaer@aol.com

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A Chorus Line

7

2

dance wear and costume sales and rental

Reena Newhall

Jana Einaudi

23300 Cinema Dr, Santa Clarita 661-253-0300 • www.achorusline.net, info@achorusline.net

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Lightning Limos

6

4

Party bus, limo rentals, car service

Veena Bali

Vin Bali

25322 Rye Cyn. Rd. #206, Valencia 661-607-0272 • www.mylightninglimos.com

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Nicholas Aire Systems

5

3

Heating and air conditioning

Nicholas Frank

Donna Frank

661-297-8058 ‎ www.nickaire.com, info@nickaire.com

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Kupcake Kitchen

5

3

Bakery

Lisa Jurado

Lisa Jurado

27737 Bouquet Cyn. Rd. #120, Saugus 661-296-4758 www.kupcakekitchen.com, lisa@kupcakekitchen.com

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Stacey Hauge Printing Co., Inc.

5

3

Commerical printer

Dennis Hauge, Linda Hauge

Dennis Hauge

28486 Westinghouse Pl. #110, Valencia (661) 2946545 www.haugeprinting.com, FAX: 661-294-6546

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Signs by Tomorrow

5

2

Signs and graphics

Becky Hargrave

Rod Hargrave

28302 Constellation Rd., Santa Clarita (661) 295-3925 www.signsbytomorrow.com, FAX: 661-295-1643

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1st Image Photography

3

2

Photography on location

Bob Messina

Bob Messina

661-254-4720 www.1stimage.com, bob. messina@1stimage.photography

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Marty's Flooring America

3

2

Flooring

Dustin Downen, Greg Smith

Dustin Downen, Greg Smith

23360 W. Valencia Blvd., Suite F, Valencia (661) 2522522, martysflooring.com

26111 Bouquet Canyon Rd., Valencia 661-255-9832 • www.theteagardens.com 24320 Main Street, Newhall 661-298-1220 www.hometownstation.com, jeri@hometownstation.com 25217 Ave Tibbitts, Santa Clarita 661-775-7758 • FAX: 661-775-7708, cell: 661-510-9390 www.visualterrain.net, lisapg@visualterrain.net davidg@visualterrain.net 23661 Newhall Ave., Newhall 661-255-8421 • www.dougfurn.com, doug@dougfurn.com

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Movie Ranches & Sound Stages in Santa Clarita (Sorted Alphabetically)

Name

Address

Phone

Website

Contact

Acres/ # of Stages

Acton Springs Movie Ranch

28909 Heffner Rd. Acton, CA 93510

(877) 204-4011

www.actonsprings.com

Tom Ybarra

160 acres

Avenue Scott Stages

27420 Ave. Scott Santa Clarita, CA 91355

(213) 534-3456

www.hollywoodlocations.com

"Pete Brosnan Hollywood Locations"

2 stages for a total of 78,000 sq ft

Blue Cloud Movie Ranch

20000 Blue Cloud Rd. Saugus, CA 91350

(661) 510-6873

www.bluecloudranch.squarespace. com/

Frank Gardner

Moive Ranch Overlay Zone Property/100 acres

Diamond V Ranch/50'S Town

28100 Haskell Canyon Rd Saugus, CA 91322

(661) 212-8047

www.veluzat.com

Marcel Veluzat

Movie Ranch Overlay Zone Property/50 acres

Golden Oak Ranch

19802 Placerita Canyon Rd. Newhall, CA 91321

(661) 259-8717

www.goldenoakranch.com

Steve Sligh

890 acres. 12 proposed stages for a total of 240,000 sq ft

Lifton Institute for Media Arts & Sciences (LIMS)

27567 Fantastic Ln. Castiac, CA 91384

(844) 433-5467

www.limsla.com

Jimmy Lifton

6 stages for a total of 45,620 sq ft

Melody Ranch Motion Picture Studio

24715 Oak Creek Ave. Santa Clarita, CA 91321

(661) 259-9669

www.melodyranchstudio.com

Candy Veluzat

Placerita Cyn. Special Standards District Overlay Zone Property - Filming allowed by right, no City permit required3 stages for a total 41,200 sq ft; 21 acre ranch

Margie Vodraska

730 acres

Polsa Rosa Ranch Rancho Deluxe

5726 Soledad Canyon Rd. Acton, CA 93510 16030 Placerita Canyon Rd. Santa Clarita, CA 91387

(805) 368-9029 (661) 733-5739

www.aranchodeluxe.com

Steve Arklin, Jr.

Movie Ranch Overlay Zone Property/200 acres

Sable Ranch/Rancho Maria

25933 Sand Canyon Rd.

(661) 252-9751

www.movielocationrental.com

Derek Hunt

Movie Ranch Overlay Zone Properties/400 acres

Sanna Ranch

10002 Soledad Canyon Rd.

(661) 268-1719

www.sannaranch.com

John Sanna

64 acres

Santa Clarita Studios

25135 Anza Dr.

(661) 294-2000

www.santaclaritastudios.com

Mike Delorenzo

16 stages with more than 247,000 sq ft

SOS Filmworks/Agua Dulce Movie

34855 Petersen Rd.

(661) 251-2365

www.sosfilmworks.com

William Fix

348 acres

Stickleback River Movie Ranch

9777 Soledad Canyon Rd.

(661) 993-0816

www.sticklebackriverranch.com/

Carey Lee

40 acres

Valencia Studios

26030 Avenue Hall

(661) 702-9102

www.valenciastudios.com

Suzie Burr

6 stages for a total of 73,500 sq ft

Veluzat Motion Picture Ranch

21800 Haskell Canyon Rd.

(661) 810-9898

www.melodyranchstudio.com

Daniel Veluzat

Movie Ranch Overlay Zone Property/750 acres Source: Santa Clarita Film Office

2016

Continued from page 19 purposes before it went into land development, is now part of the FivePoint Holdings, he said. In a complex arrangement, Newhall Land still owns land, Churm clarified. The Newhall Ranch project has been combined with three other mixed-use, master planned communities. “We (FivePoint) remain in the market in the Santa Clarita Valley, however,” Churm said. “Newhall Ranch is very important to us and we’re determined to see it built.

Nothing changes in that respect.”

MakerSpace Innovation Movement Arrives at College Campus Dreamers at College of the Canyons finally have a space of their own to design, engineer or fabricate innovations: the MakerSpace lab at the college’s Valencia campus in Santa Clarita. It’s a creative collaborative work space with cutting-edge tools like 3D printers and laser cutters, along with old fashioned necessities like welding tools. “MakerSpace is a collaborative work space, in contrast to a welding lab where all of your focus is on welding, or electronics where that is the sole focus, MakerSpace will share many of those resources on one spot,” said Ron McFarland, Dean of COC’s School of Applied Technologies. Begun with a $15,000 grant, the MakerSpace equipment will be available to the public by 2017.

Urgent Care Offers Bypass to Hospital ER for Some The opening of a privately owned urgent care center on the campus of the Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital may help one business grow and another manage patient care. Staffed with

family practice physicians and nurses and equipped to provide laboratory studies, Xrays, laceration repair, fracture evaluation, as well as management of fevers and other illnesses, the urgent care center is owned and operated by Bud Lawrence, MD, an emergency medicine physician and Director of Risk Management in the hospital’s emergency department. Lawrence is also a Santa Clarita resident. Open 12 hours a day, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week patients en route to hospital’s emergency room for nonemergency conditions may instead access the urgent care center – for a lot less money than an emergency room will cost, said a spokesperson for the hospital. And each redirected patient eases the load on hospital operations.

Cheesecake Factory Selects Santa Clarita for Newest Restaurant Santa Clarita residents are finally getting what they’ve long waited for. The Cheesecake Factory is opening its latest outlet on Town Center Drive at the Westfield Valencia Town Center, a spokesperson for the mall confirmed. The Calabasas-based restaurant is planning to operate in 8,000 square feet of retail space formerly occupied by Sunglass Hut, Talbots and the Carlton Hair salon, across from Pottery Barn. The deal for the lease officially closed the week of May 2.

JULY Giving the Heave-Ho to Captain Hook’s Claw-Cap Hook Working with Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and expecting Federal Drug Administration approval within See 2016, page 23

SCVEDC recognizes the leadership shaping our local economy.

JEREMY STEPAN Member Board of Directors

JEREMY STEPAN is the owner of Resurgence

IT, a full IT outsourcing company for small and mid-sized businesses. He started his career in IT back in 1998 in Denver, Colorado. In 2001 he moved to Santa Clarita to join the staff of a local IT company. In August 2006 he started his first company, Adage IT, and grew that from six clients to over 200 in ten years.

2015 and 2016 brought some changes which challenged the core of how he served his clients in the Santa Clarita Valley. This resulted in the creation of Resurgence IT. Now restored and recharged, Jeremy is excited to once again rise to the top of IT support in our valley. He brings to his business relationships values his holds dear: providing the very best customer experience with the trust of a handshake, and the highest level of technical competence to allow your IT money to make your business stronger.

Regional leadership for a regional economy.

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THE LIST Rank

DECEMBER 2016

SCV Hotels (Ranked by Room Count) Hotel name

# Rooms

Year built

Business-related accomodations and contact

Contact information

1

Hyatt Valencia

244

1998

Complimentary Wi-Fi, full restaurant and lounge, al fresco dining option on patio with fireplace, valet, eight ballrooms, business center.

24500 Town Center Dr., Valencia 661-799-1234 www.valencia.hyatt.com

2

Embassy Suites Valencia

156

2007

Banquet rooms, boardroom, restaurant, bar, Wi-Fi.

28508 Westinghouse Pl., Valencia 661-257-3111 www.embassysuites3.hilton.com

3

Hilton Garden Inn Valencia Six Flags

152

2007

Free Wi-Fi, business center, restaurant buffet $11.95, 4 conference/ballrooms, mini fridge, microwave, pool, gym.

27710 The Old Rd., Valencia 661-254-8800 www.hiltongardeninn3.hilton.com

4

Courtyard Valencia

140

2003

One boardroom for up to 10 people, one meeting room for up to 50 people, free Wi-Fi, catering.

28523 Westinghouse Pl., Valencia 661-257-3220 www.marriott.com/hotels

5

Hampton Inn Santa Clarita

128

1987

Full kitchens in rooms, one meeting room for up to 30, free Wi-Fi, catering.

25259 The Old Rd., Newhall 661-253-2400 ww.hamptoninnsantaclarita.com

6

Rodeway Inn Magic Mountain Area

120

1989

Free Wi-Fi, continental breakfast, pool, some handicap-accessible rooms. Call reservations for a corporate rate.

31558 Castaic Rd., Castaic 661-295-1100 www.rodewayinn.com

7

Holiday Inn Express Valencia

118

2002

Conference room for up to 50 people, free Wi-Fi, business center, fitness center.

27513 Wayne Mills Pl., Santa Clarita 661-284-2101 www.hiexpress.com

8

La Quinta Inn & Suites Santa Clarita

112

2006

Boardroom seating for eight, meeting room seating for up to 40 people, free high-speed Wi-Fi, free breakfast, fitness center, outdoor heated swimming pool and spa.

25201 The Old Rd., Stevenson Ranch 661-286-1111 www.laquintasantaclaritastevensonranch.com

9

Extended Stay America Hotel

104

2000

Free Wi-Fi and free grab-and-go breakfast. Ask for Jaquie Townsend.

24940 W. Pico Canyon Rd., Valencia 661-255-1044 www.extendedstayamerica.com

19

Comfort Suites

100

1997

Free Wi-Fi, continental breakfast, fitness center, pool, business center with computers and printers.

25380 N. The Old Rd., Stevenson Ranch 661-254-7700 ww.comfortsuites.com

11

Residence Inn Santa Clarita

90

1997

The Old Rd., Santa Clarita Full kitchens in suites, one boardroom for up to 10, five meeting 25320 661-290-2800 rooms up to 150, free Wi-Fi , catering, pet friendly. www.marriott.com

12

Fairfield Inn Santa Clarita

66

1997

Meeting room space is shared with Residence Inn, free Wi-Fi, pet friendly.

25340 The Old Rd., Santa Clarita 661-290-2828 www.marriott.com/hotels

13

Days Inn Castaic

54

n/a

Free Wi-Fi, guest laundry, free continental breakfast, spa, fridge and microwave.

31410 Castaic Rd., Castaic 661-295-1070 ‎ www.daysinn.com

THE LIST

SCV Private Schools (Ranked by Number of Students)

Rank

Private school

# of Students 2014-15

Grades taught

# Teachers

# Nonteaching staff

Year est. in SCV

Top executive

Revenue

1

Trinity Classical Academy

502

Transitional K-12

60

68

2001

Liz Caddow, Head of School Wally Caddow, Managing Director

$42.7 M

2

Santa Clarita Christian School

472

K-12

39

43

1982

Kirk Huckabone, Administrator

$17.2 M

3

Legacy Christian Academy

410

K-8

43

22

1983

Timothy W. Borruel, Founder/ Superintendent

$36 M

4

Our Lady of Perpetual Help School

260

K-8

17

6

1962

Sharon Krahl, Principal

$2.5 M

5

C.A.R.E. Learning Academy

50

Transitional K-5

3

7

2012

Sue A. Cowling, Owner/Founder

$8.8 M

DECEMBER 2016

2016 Continued from page 21 the year, the Alfred Mann Foundation’s latest innovation will put the 1912 – patented prosthetic cap-like hook of Captain Hook in a museum. Providing brain-controlled multifunctionality of prosthetics will help a whole lot of injured people. When the foundation’s latest system version is fully developed and approved, a patient will have up to eight degrees of simultaneous movement, including the movement of all five fingers. “We didn’t build the arm itself; we built the control system for prosthetics called IMES - Implantable MyoElectric Sensor,” said CEO David Hankin. “Previous prosthetics were limited to two points of control. The signaling movement was picked up by sensors on the surface of the skin, but the gets jumbled up with mixed signals. There are great limitations and they’re not intuitive.”

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Advrtas Lets Advertisers Present a Panoramic Feast for Your Eyes Most online advertisements show you a picture or a video of a product, but technology from a Santa Clarita-based firm is throwing an entirely new light on electronic marketing. Advrtas, virtual reality software

by Outlyer Technologies, lets advertisers present a 360-degree view of any product or location that they wish to market. The 360-degree views are made possible by Outlyer’s patent-pending Panamorphic technology. The company’s CEO and founder, Robert Bruza, says that this technology enables advertisers to pack a relatively small area – the space an ad occupies on a Smartphone or tablet screen – full of rich media.

He likens it to “building a rabbit hole” in a little space on the Web.

■ Nuhubit. Photo by Dan Watson.

Indy 500 Delivers Big Win for Santa Clarita Firm and Resident It was like the running of the bulls in Spain, only these were mechanical bulls – sleek,

open-wheel race cars – driving at speeds up to 230 mph in the 100th running of the Indy 500 on Memorial Day Weekend. And while See 2016, page 24

Northwest Timber Giant Operates Center in Santa Clarita Pacific Northwest timber giant Weyerhaeuser operates only five distribution sites in California – and one is in Santa Clarita.

Founded in 1900 by Frederick Weyerhaeuser, it is one of the world’s largest private owners of timberlands, owning or managing more than six million acres of timberlands in the United States and another 14 million acres under long-term licenses in Canada.

Santa Clarita’s center has operated locally for more than 20 years, having opened in March of 1995. It serves retail dealer locations throughout the area with residential building materials. The Santa Clarita Distribution handles approximately 21,000 orders a year, she said.

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Aerospace Engineering, Plus Cello Instruction, Equals Math App for Kids One of the hardest parts of learning math for kids is going over and memorizing multiplication and division tables.

Software engineer and mathematician Alex Bozman wants to make the tedious job of learning by rote a little easier and a lot more fun. With his recently released math game, “Bubbly Primes,” available via the Apple online app store since mid-December, he aims to help kids master the necessary but dull parts of learning. Bozman’s company, Nuhubit Software Studios LLC, is based in Santa Clarita, and the company’s name has a local connection, too. The village “Nuhubit” (now Newhall) is where the Tataviam people, the Native Americans who inhabited the Santa Clarita region sometime before 450 AD, lived.

Kadenze Delivers Arts, Media and Tech Education Worldwide Finding top-level courses in the arts can be tough. The lack of access to arts education for many people inspired Ajay Kapur, director of music technology at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Last year, he and a group of techies and artists that include CalArts faculty and alumni launched Kadenze, a firm dedicated to bringing advanced education to the world. They built an online platform from scratch that provides an interactive virtual classroom offering arts, media and technology courses online for credit. “Being here in Santa Clarita, we’re right next to Cal Arts, we have a very strong relationship with a number of the professors here. Sixty percent of the company is alumni of Cal Arts.” Locating the company in Santa Clarita has a great many benefits, says Kapur.

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2016

prime infill location in close proximity to Interstate 5 should allow us to attract and retain tenants and capture this market’s strong rent growth potential,” Allan Swaringen, CEO and president of JLL Income Property Trust, said in a statement. Located at 28145 Harrison Parkway, the warehouses total nearly 400,000 square feet of space. The property is 95 percent leased according to JLL’s filings.

Continued from page 23 the race is in Indianapolis, Indiana, it was a Santa Clarita company, a Valencia team owner, and a California driver who won the legendary brickyard race. Low on fuel, IndyCar rookie Alexander Rossi outlasted his faster rivals earning a stunning victory for Bryan Herta of Valencia’s Bryan Herta Autosport and the Andretti Autosport team, with Honda Performance Development helping to power the win.

Mutual Fund Caters To Formula One Fans

Santa Clarita Valley Business Journal Wins National Award ■ Indy 500. Courtesy photo.

John Foti’s passion for Formula One racing can be found in the form of a scar from a burning ember that landed on his shoulder in 1991 when the international series raced in downtown Phoenix, AZ in 1991. Foti, head of Grand Prix Investors Fund in Lancaster, sitting so close to the track that when the cars accelerated from their standing start, a spark from one of the cars landed on his shoulder – the ember burning a hole through his Ferrari sweatshirt, only to leave its mark. Foti offers small investors and diehard race fans of the Formula One series a chance to invest in the partnering, sponsoring, or supplying companies that are directly or indirectly are involved with Formula One – focusing on publicly traded securities.

Landscape Development Buys Thousand Oaks Landscape Firm Valencia-based Landscape Development Inc. acquired Thousand Oaks-based Enhanced Landscape Management in the San Fernando Valley. Landscape Development said it made the asset purchase of the $7.5 million dollar maintenance company in May.

The SFV company has been in business for 12 years. Enhanced Landscape Management serviced West Los Angeles and Ventura counties, which gives Santa Clarita’s Landscape Development enhanced service coverage in those areas, said owner and CEO Gary Horton. “It helps balance our firm with greater recurring revenue vs. just construction revenue; giving us an improved tilt toward the recurring business side,” Horton said. “They (Enhanced Landscape) have a strong brand name in Ventura County and West Los Angeles – it’s a high-end brand.”

Santa Clarita Firm Wins Awards for Outdoor Lighting Visual Terrain, a Santa Clarita lighting design firm, has been awarded three prizes in the 2016 Illumination Awards of Merit, awarded by the Illumination Engineering Society of North America. It was recognized for its achievement in all three of its areas of expertise: architecture, attractions, and the arts.

Visual Terrain won lighting design awards for Dollywood Emporium (architecture), Laff Track (attractions), and Rays (the arts).

In all three cases, the firm designed the special

SCVEDC recognizes the leadership shaping our local economy.

MARISOL ESPINOZA Member Board of Directors

MARISOL ESPINOZA serves as a Public Affairs Manager for SoCalGas, the nation’s largest natural gas utility, serving almost 20 million customers. In her role, she is responsible for representing SoCalGas in several cities in Northwest Angeles County, the largest of which is Santa Clarita. She serves as the community liaison, interacting with City stakeholders, local media, elected and business leaders. She currently serves on numerous boards for civic and community organizations, including the Board of Directors for the Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce and the SCV Economic Development Corporation.

Marisol has over 14 years of public policy and community outreach experience in Southern California. Prior to joining SoCalGas, Marisol was the Deputy Controller for Community Affairs in the City of Los Angeles, where she managed citywide outreach, stakeholder and community relations.

Additionally, she served as the District Director and policy advisor for former Los Angeles City Councilman Dennis Zine.

Marisol received her Bachelors Degree in Communications Studies and Spanish from UCLA and a Masters in Public Administration from Columbia University.

Regional leadership for a regional economy.

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effects lighting and worked with partners to ensure a successful implementation.

SetPoint Medical Inks Deal at Mann Biomedical Park Biomedical device maker SetPoint Medical is moving into the Mann Biomedical Park in Santa Clarita, joining companies like Boston Scientific, the Alfred Mann Foundation, MannKind and Bioness. SetPoint is working on treating patients with debilitating inflammatory diseases, such as Crohn’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis. It uses bioelectronic therapy using a proprietary, implantable device which helps regulates the central nervous system, which in turn regulates the body’s immune system. Moving into 14,000 square feet of space, SetPoint has 25 employees. It signed a deal with park owner, Intertex, with the help of broker Tim Crissman from Crissman Commercial Services, Arnold said.

Santa Clarita Film Projects Receive State Tax Credits The first round of film projects eligible for the state’s film tax credit program run by the California Film Commission included two that film in the Santa Clarita Valley. July 1 marks the beginning of the state’s second fiscal year of the expanded Film & Television Tax Credit Program. HBO’s “Westworld” and USA Network’s “Shooter,” produced by Paramount TV and Mark Wahlberg and adapted from his 2007 feature. Both are filming in Santa Clarita at local studios, movie ranches and locations around the city. Another TV project, “Four Stars,” has also filmed locally.

AUGUST Special Report: Multigenerational Santa Clarita Manufacturers In August, we profiled six Santa Clarita manufacturing firms that have not only survived; they have managed to hand the firms down through generations of family members – from fathers to daughters, and fathers to sons. These multigenerational, family-owned and operated firms are small businesses that have all helped keep the economic wheels turning in the manufacturing industry. The firms are Al Hirth Machining Inc., Advanced Technology Machining/TECC Grinding, Marathon Industries, Precision Designs (doing business as sPOD), Safari Straps Inc., and Luran Inc. And although industry studies give California’s business climate poor grades due to the high cost of doing business, these firms are living proof that there are benefits to manufacturing in California.

The Santa Clarita Valley Business Journal won a first-place national award for its coverage of the business community’s frustration over the lack of high-speed internet infrastructure in the Valley. Competing against news publications from throughout the country, the SCVBJ was awarded first place by the National Newspaper Association for its series titled “A Disconnected Valley” which first began in May 2015. The award makes the publication a national journalism award winner for the first time.

Oliver Hotel Group Buys 4-Acre Property The Oliver Hotel Group LLC, developers of the proposed Valencia hotel adjacent to the Hyatt Regency Valencia, purchased the 3.75 acre site from the State Bank of Texas. Brown Nester Hospitality Services represented both the seller and the buyer. The deal closed June 30. Terms were not disclosed. The site of the proposed hotel is located off McBean Parkway at Valencia Blvd. where a Sheraton Hotel was once proposed. Chuck Nester, president of Westlake Village-based Brown Nester Hospitality Services, founded in 1948, brokered the deal. The firm is experienced in managing, branding, insuring and selling hotel properties. It also works with banks holding hotel properties in default.

Wine Makers Still Waiting for Updated County Rules Santa Clarita wine makers had hoped that outdated rules for making wine would be updated by allowing them to compete with other regions in the state. However, the proposed changes are still making their way through the review process by the Los Angeles County’s Office of County Counsel. The office provides advice and counsel to the Board of Supervisors on any ordinance change. While California has been a major player in the wine market worldwide, wine makers in Los Angeles County have been held back by decadesold rules, which winemakers consider arcane, that classify wine crush facilities as food processing plants. The classification imposes expensive undue regulations, the winemakers say. And they’ve been lobbying for change for the better part of a decade.

Large Industrial Park Steps Up to Save H2O Three parties working behind the scenes See 2016 page 26

Valencia Industrial Complex Sold A five-building, multi-tenant warehouse located in the Valencia Commerce Center sold for $64.5 million. Jones Lang LaSalle Income Property Trust in Chicago acquired the fivebuilding property from Clarion Partners in a deal that closed June 30. “The portfolio’s

■ Valencia industrial complex. Courtesy photo.

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SCV Oldest Restaurants (Sorted by years in business) Years in business

Type of food

Seating capacity

# Employees

Saugus Café

128

American

150

22

25861 Railroad Ave., Santa Clarita 661-259-7886 • www.sauguscafe.com

Yecenia Mercado

Halfway House Café

84

Breakfast, lunch

60

10

15564 Sierra Hwy., Santa Clarita 661-251-0102 • www.halfwayhousecafe.com

Sally Moore

Mike's Diner

69

Mexican/American Classics

50

20

31537 Castaic Rd., Castaic 661-257-3233

Mike Harutunian

Backwoods Inn

49

Steakhouse

150

28

17846 Sierra Hwy., Canyon Country 661-252-5522 • www.backwoodsinn.com

Alan Wright

Way Station Coffee Shop

45

American Breakfasts

54

12

24377 Main St., Santa Clarita 661-255-0222

Eric Leeser

Maria's Deli

42

Deli, Market, Pizzeria

55

5

22620 Lyons Ave., Santa Clarita 661-259-6261 • www.mariasdeliscv.com

Maria and Bruno

Tiny's Submarine Sandwiches

40

Submarines

26

5

27251 Camp Plenty Rd., Canyon Country 661-251-5885

Teri King

Final Score

37

Italian-American

70

7

23754 Lyons Ave., Newhall 661-254-6557 • www.finalscoresubs.com

Joe Comella

Vincenzo's Pizza

38

Pizza, Italian

250

12

24504 1/2 W. Lyons Ave., Newhall 661-259-6733 • www.vincenzospizza.com

Steven Katz

Le Chene

36

Classic French

325

30

12625 Sierra Hwy., Santa Clarita 661-251-4315 • www.lechene.com

Juan Alonso

Dario's Restaurant

30

Mexican

150

20

24523 Newhall Ave., Newhall 661-255-6868

Omar/Julia

Don Cuco

28

Mexican

150

35-39

24130 Lyons Ave., Newhall 661-254-4874 • www.doncuco.com

Jose Mendez

Rattler's BBQ

28

BBQ

140

90

26495 Golden Valley Rd., Canyon Country 661-251-4195 • www.rattlersbbq.com

Javier Arambula

Caruso's II

27

Italian

60

12

18340 Sierra Hwy., Canyon Country 661-251-8450 • www.carusos2.com

Maria Nicchitta

Piccola Trattoria

24

Italian

120

25

18302 Sierra Hwy., # 107, Santa Clarita 661-299-6952 • www.piccolatrattoria.com

La Cocina Bar & Grill

24

Mexican

80

34

28022, Seco Canyon Rd., Santa Clarita 661-297-4546

Amador Lopez, Father

Sisley Italian Kitchen

22

Italian

324

45

24201 W. Valencia Blvd., Valencia 661-287-4444 • www.sisleykitchen.com

Scott (?) or Leticia Laessg

Wolfcreek Restaurant & Brewing Co.

20

Salads, burgers, sandwiches, pizzas, pastas, fish, entrees

165

70

27746 McBean Pkwy., Santa Clarita 661-263-9653 • www.wolfcreekbrewingco.com

Mandy Meeks

Athena's

18

Greek, Italian

80

7

18853 Soledad Canyon Rd., Santa Clarita 661-251-8442 • www.myathenas.com

Moses

Salt Creek Grille

17

Steakhouse, salads, steaks, seafood, pasta

265

75

24415 Town Center Dr., #115, Valencia 661-222-9999 • www.saltcreekgrille.com/valencia

Greg Amsler

El Trocadero Mesquite Steakhouse

17

Mexican, steaks

154

12

24274 Main St., Newhall 661- 284-6615 • www.eltrocaderosteakhouse.com

Ivanna Huicochea

Egg Plantation

16

Breakfast,Lunch

180

45

24415 Walnut St., Newhall 661-255-8222 • www.eggplantation.com

Shannon & Simon Smee

Route 66 Classic Grill

15

Burgers, BBQ

DNR

DNR

Black Angus Steakhouse

14

Steak, salmon, shrimp

236

40

27007 N. McBean Pkwy.,Valencia 661-288-2000 • www.blackangus.com

Paul Roth

Yamato Restaurant

14

Japanese

180

60

24947 Pico Canyon Rd., Stevenson Ranch 661-799-0707 • yamatorestaurants.com

Kose

Bella Cucina

14

Italian

150

10

27911 Seco Canyon Rd., Santa Clarita 661-263-1414 • www.bellacucinascv.com/

Sam's Flaming Grill

14

Middle Eastern, Mediterranean

50

5

22880 Copper Hill Dr., Santa Clarita 661-296-0103 • www.samsflaminggrill.com

Margarita's Mexican Grill

14

Mexican

95

35

23320 Valencia Blvd., Valencia 661-255-1136 • www.margaritas-mexicangrill.com

Maria Azevedo

A&B Chinese Express

13

Chinese

24

4

27051 N. McBean Pkwy., Valencia 661-288-2683 • www.anbexpress.com

Brandon Thompson

Persia

12

Persian and Mediterranean cuisine

130

8

24328 Main St., Newhall 661-259-4100 • www.persia-restaurant.com

Eggs N Things

11

Breakfast

DNR

DNR

La Cocina Bar & Grill

10

Mexican

175

47

Marston's Restaurant

5

Breakfast/Lunch

130

30

24011 Newhall Ranch Rd., Valencia 661-253-9910 • www.marstonsrestaurant.com

Katie

Larsens

4

Fine dining, steak and seafood

175

45

24320 Town Center Dr., Valencia 661-288-1002 • www.larsensrestaurants.com

Richard Bokstrom

Newhall Refinery

3

New American food and craft beer

120

45

24258 Main St., Santa Clarita 661-388-4477 • www.newhallrefinery.com

Shannon & Simon Smee

Restaurant

Contact

18730 Soledad Canyon Rd., Canyon Country 661-298-1494 • www.route66classicgrille.com

General Manager

George Thomas

Louie Pozos

27560 Newhall Ranch Rd., #301, Valencia 661-702-8664; Corporate office:.805-482-1302 www.eggsnthings.net/ 28076 Bouquest Canyon Rd, Santa Clarita 661-513-0142, 661-305-0833 (Carlos)

Edgar Lopez, Son Carlos

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Continued from page 24 for the better part of a year brokered a deal to save water on a giant scale when the Castaic Lake Water Association, Valencia Commerce Center Association, and the Santa Clarita Valley Economic Development Corp. sealed a five-year deal to replace lawns and save water.

We’re talking “big water savings” here – water savings that might put a dent in the pressure to save that homeowners in the valley have felt over the past couple years. The water savings translate to 16.3 million gallons annually, according to Dirk Marks, CLWA’s water resources manager.

Holistic Pet Food Company Leases Larger Space Holistic dog and cat food company, Pets Global Inc. of Santa Clarita, leased a 35,310

square foot industrial building on Industry Drive. The deal closed June 1. Matt Dierckman of CBRE represented the landlord. The Aronoff Brothers own the building. David Hoffberg at Delphi Business Properties represented the tenant Pets Global. The lease is for five years. The property is located at 28334 Industry Drive. Their pet foods are branded as Zignature for canine companions and Fussie Cat for the feline companion. The foods are also AAFCO - Association of American Feed Control Officials – approved.

MannKind to Promote Its Inhalable Insulin After a disappointing partnership with pharmaceutical giant Sanofi, Valencia-based MannKind Corporation is launching its own campaign to market Afrezza, its inhalable insulin product for diabetics. Paris-based Sanofi

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gave notice in January that the company intended to terminate its licensing agreement with MannKind for global distribution of the medication. Since then, MannKind has been developing a sales and marketing force of its own to pick up where Sanofi left off – a first for the Valencia firm. Newly hired Chief Commercial Officer Michael Castagna is building and heading up the nascent sales and marketing operation.

SEPTEMBER Special Report: Santa Clarita’s Film Industry This edition highlighting Santa Clarita’s film industry included contributions from many partners who helped us bring these industry stories and photos together – from the

■ A crew member uses a water cannon on a rented water truck to douse a stump that was smoking at Rancho Deluxe. Photo by Katharine Lotze.

city of Santa Clarita film office, to our movie ranches, film production people who gave us a behind the scenes peek at the industry, and companies that make up our thriving film industry. Coverage included a look local producers of sound and music for TV and films, USA Network’s drama “Shooter,” which is, well, shot here, a new Netflix show named for Santa Clarita, a profile of Lifton Institute of Media Arts and Sciences, moves to support smaller productions, new rules affecting drones in filming, and a comprehensive listing of shows and movies based in or filmed on location in Santa Clarita.

Raging Inferno: When Life Imitates Art The Sand Fire started out small, burning just a quarter of an acre of brush on the south side of Highway 14 near Sand Canyon Road in Santa Clarita on July 22. It was expected that firefighters would quickly put the flames out. Fires are unpredictable. What started out small rapidly grew mean and stubborn, dodging efforts of the firefighters to control it. The once-small brush fire suddenly jumped the Metrolink tracks. The battle was on. Steve Arklin Jr., family members, friends and a volunteer crew of some 30 people at Rancho Deluxe went three days without sleep fighting to protect their home and business at the family’s movie ranch. Despite knowing what to do - it was the third fire they’d battled in their lifetime - at one point Arklin thought they were going to lose it all.

Medical Device Manufacturer Making Leap to Larger Space Six years ago, Technical Manufacturing West (TMW) was a startup company using hand-operated machinery to create prototypes of orthopedic medical devices, and was housed in a Santa Clarita garage. With business expanding, TMW Vice President of Operations Johnny Valadez and General Manager Brad Topper are moving to larger quarters for the third time in the company’s short history – a 14,000 square-foot facility on Avenue Tibbitts in Santa Clarita. Specializing in non-conventional machining, TMW’s operation lends itself to the manufacture of micro-surgical orthopedic devices. Moveable mechanical assemblies that they build allow access to otherwise inaccessible areas of the anatomy, or speed difficult procedures in the operating room. Topper says their biggest customers are the Fortune 500 original equipment manufacturer (OEM) medical device customers in the orthopedic arena.

Advocating to Save California’s Data Centers Do you think your firm’s critical computer room and data center is hearty enough to survive a catastrophe? Try running it through a real live test, like the ones a Valencia-based See 2016, page 29

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Flourishing Business Environment

By Steve Tannehill This is part 3 in a three-part series exploring the myths and facts about the climate for business in California.

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here are independent, non-profit research groups that look at the California business climate, like Small Business Majority and Small Business California. They conduct surveys of small businesses and outreach to determine their needs. The results might be surprising to some. For example, in Small Business California’s most recent annual survey, small business owners and entrepreneurs ranked the following as more important than reducing state taxes: • The quality of public education • Repairing and enhancing the state’s infrastructure • The availability and rising cost of health care In fact, of 13 key questions, small business owners ranked lowering state taxes as 6th in importance – middle of the pack.

Small business owners understand what matters most – the infrastructure and eco-system that supports their businesses. Sure they want lower taxes – who doesn’t?

But they understand that the key to success lies in growing the business and sales; they are looking to be the most profitable in their space, not necessarily the lowest cost producer. They want help creating an environment that provides: • Strong demand for their goods and services • Modern, well-functioning infrastructure to facilitate economic activity • A level playing field so all businesses – large and small, virtual, and brick and mortar – compete fairly

• A prosperous consumer base to purchase their goods and services • Fair, straightforward, predictable tax rates • Fair, sensible, clear and predictable regulations It’s of vital importance that we understand what makes California the business success that it is, build on those strengths and work on the weaknesses to continue that success. That means we need to focus on things like: • Improving our infrastructure • Providing access to multiple sources of capital – including equity crowd funding.

• Job training and worker skill development

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We want to ensure that our leaders grasp the complexity of a sophisticated and complex world economy like California’s, and bring to bear a robust and complete suite of policies to continue our success.”

• Training programs for entrepreneurs and small business owners • Creating fair and transparent tax policies and regulatory policies • Ensuring that all businesses play with the same set of rules.

Kansas recently elected a governor committed to a

“pro-business” formula of reducing taxes and regulation, promising it would spur entrepreneurship, economic growth and lots of job creation – in 2014 Sam Brownback pledged to deliver 25,000 new jobs in each of the next four years. Instead Kansas has run repeated budget deficits and had to cut funding for education. Job creation and business growth have lagged behind most of the country, and well behind California. Indeed, instead of adding 25,000 new jobs in 2015, Kansas lost 5,400 jobs. Kansas is the perfect state level experiment to see if simply cutting taxes and reducing regulations will lead to robust job and business growth. Kansans are sadly learning it simply doesn’t work. A modern economy – especially the California economy – is much more nuanced and complex than that.

We’ve just concluded our election season. I personally know most of the candidates who ran for Congress and State office, and they are without exception good people who care deeply about our community. Now that the election is over we need to work together to continue to maintain California as a world leader in business, manufacturing, innovation, new business formation and job creation. We want to ensure that our leaders grasp the complexity of a sophisticated and complex world economy like California’s, and bring to bear a robust and complete suite of policies to continue our success. A policy of simply “cutting taxes and regulations” is not only too simplistic for an economy like ours, it’s a proven failure. Just ask Kansas.

Steve Tannehill is a former adjunct professor of finance at California State University, Northridge, and served as the executive director of the Small Business Development Center at College of the Canyons.

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Top 50 Employers (Ranked by Total Employees)

Company Name

Name

Title

Address

Employees

Six Flags Magic Mountain

Tim Burkhardt

General Manager

26101 Magic Mountain Pkwy., Valencia 91355

3200

Princess Cruises

Jan Swartz

President

24305 Town Center Dr., Valencia 91355

1948

Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital

Roger Seaver

CEO

23845 McBean Pkwy., Valencia 91355

1800

Boston Scientific

Maulik Nanavaty

Principal

25155 Rye Canyo Loop, Santa Clarita 91355

875

Aerospace Dynamics International

John Wall

VP and General Manager

25540 Rye Canyon Road, Santa Clarita 91355

795

Master's University

John MacArthur

21726 Placerita Canyon, Santa Clarita 91355

760

Woodward Inc

Carl Moffitt

25200 Rye Canyon Rd., Santa Clarita 91355

725

Advanced Bionics

Jim Robinson

President Vice President & General Manager VP

28515 Westinghouse Place, Valencia 91355

700

Quest Diagnostics

Sonya Engle

Director of Operations

27027 Tourney Rd, Valencia 91355

700

California Institute of the Arts

Steven Lavine

President

24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia 91355

690

Multiple Locations

624

Walmart Wesco Aircraft

Dave Castagnola

President & CEO

27727 Avenue Scott, Valencia 91355

487

ITT Aerospace Corporation

Melissa Metz

HR Director

28150 Industry Drive Unit S, Valencia 91355

420

Contractor's Wardrobe

Greg Mullen

Plant Manager

26121 Avenue Hall, Valencia 91355

400

Auto Nation

Mark LeCompte

General Manager

23649 Valencia Blvd, Valencia 91355

400

Arvato Digital

Dominik Dittrik

EVP

29011 Commerce Center Dr., Valencia 91355

382

Bocchi Laboratories

Joe Pender

President

26455 Reuther, Santa Clarita 91355

360

Regent Aerospace Corporation

Reza Soltanian

President

28110 W Harrison Pkwy., Valencia 91355

316

Shield Healthcare

Jim Snell

President

27911 Franklin Parkway, Valencia 91355

300

Stay Green Inc.

Chris Angelo

President & CEO

26415 Summit Circle, Santa Clarita 91355

278

McDonald's

Jay Schutz

Owner/Operator

26370 Diamond Place, Suite 500, Santa Clarita 91355

260

Bayless Engineering & Manufacturing

Earl Bayless

President

26100 Avenue Hall, Santa Clarita 91355

256

Esterline TA Aerospace

Jason Childs

President

28065 Franklin Pkwy., Valencia 91355

250

Stratasys Direct Inc

Joe Allison

President

28309 Avenue Crocker, Valencia 91355

240

18649 Via Princessa, Santa Clarita 91355

239

Costco Wholesale Crissair, Inc

Mike Alfred

President

28909 Avenue Williams, Valencia 91355

223

Forrest Machining Inc

Joanne Butler

President

27756 Avenue Mentry, Valencia 91355

220

B & B Manufacturing

Fred Duncan

President

27940 Beale Court, Santa Clarita 91355

220

ASC Process Systems

Dave Mason

President

28402 Livingston Ave., Valencia 91355

200

RAH Industries Inc

Ronald Hansen

CEO

24800 Avenue Rockefeller, Valencia 91355

200

Bioness

Todd Cushman

President

25103 Rye Canyon Loop, Valencia 91355

200

Cardinal Health

Pamela Smaldone

Site Manager

27911 Franklin Parkway, Valencia 91355

200

Sunkist Growers

Russ Hanlin

CEO

27770 Entertainment Dr., Valencia 91355

200

Frontier Toyota

Joe Caso

General Manager

23621 Creekside Rd., Valencia 91355

195

Triumph Actuation Systems

Randy Lebetsamer

President

28150 Harrison Pkwy., Valencia 91355

194

Novacap

Mark Skoog

President

25111 Anza Drive, Valencia 91355

181

Fralock Corp

Scott Tucker

CEO

28525 W. Industry Dr., Valencia 91355

170

Andy Gump Temporary Site Service

Nancy Gump

Vice President

26410 Summit Circle, Santa Clarita 91355

170

Honda Performance Development

Art St. Cyr

President

25145 Anza Drive, Valencia 91355

164

Del West Engineering Inc

Al Sommer

President

28128 Livingston Ave., Valencia 91355

151

Lamsco West, Inc.

Steve Griffith

President

29101 The Old Road, Santa Clarita 91355

150

SGL TECHNIC Inc

Scott Carlton

President

28176 N. Avenue Stanford, Valencia 91355

145

Hyatt Regency Valencia

Eric Ducat

General Manager

24500 Town Center Drive, Valencia 91355

143

Classic Wire Cut Company

Brett Bannerman

President

28210 Constellation R., Valencia 91355d

142

Donaldson Company Inc.

John Fuger

Plant Manager

26235 Technology Dr., Valencia 91355

139

Adept Fasteners

Gary Young

Owner

28709 Industry Dr., Valencia 91355

135

Vision Media Management

Michael Alvarez Sr

President

29125 Avenue Paine, Valencia 91355

100

Stoll Metalcraft Inc

Gunter Stoll

President

24808 Anza Dr., Valencia 91355

100

Wayforward

John Beck

CEO

28738 The Old Road, Santa Clarita 91355

100

True Position Technologies Inc

Allen Sumian

President

24900 Avenue Stanford, Valencia 91355

96

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September. The 13-acre Valencia development, the first of its kind in Santa Clarita in 10 years, is part of the largest master-planned industrial project and center for business technology and industry in Los Angeles County, and it comes at a time when industrial space is at a premium. The ownership group, MCA Gateway V, LLC, purchased the three lots from Gateway V, LLC in April of this year.

Brokers Craig Peters and Doug Sonderegger represented both sides of this transaction. The site sits off the 126 Highway at Commerce Center Drive and Interstate 5.

Continued from page 26 firm survived. More reliable than any comic book superheroes, WorkSafe Technologies earthquake-resistant equipment survived one of the world’s largest earthquakes, and another of the world’s most damaging ones. There are no tougher quality tests that the company could have conducted, nor any seals of approval which would have demonstrated the worthiness of its products. Now in its 25th year in business, the firm has already sold over 200,000 of its ball bearing-loaded platforms – the ISO-Base isolators – to protect sensitive computer and information technology infrastructure in a disaster.

Fundraiser Benefits Firefighters Whose Homes Burned As firefighters battled the onslaught of blazes from the Sand Fire, protecting properties in Santa Clarita and elsewhere, four of those same firefighters lost their own homes to the wildfires. To help them, a local movie ranch hosted a benefit to raise money for the firefighters and their families on Sept. 10. Habitat for Humanity, San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valley, supported the event.

Lloyd Sreden Remembered Accountant Lloyd Sreden lost his battle with cancer on June 27. He helped shape Stern, Kory, Sreden & Morgan into a trusted CPA firm, and was committed to supporting community causes and organizations focused on making the Santa Clarita Valley an even better place to live, work, and play. He was a board member of the SCV Rotary Club, the William S. Hart Baseball and Softball League, and the Hart High School Baseball Booster Club, and a past member of the SCV Chamber of Commerce board. He will be deeply missed by his wife, three children, co-workers, colleagues and friends.

Bringing a Touch of Magic to Television and the World When Mark Wilson and his wife Nani Darnell began their TV magic show in 1954, there had been no magic on the air except on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” and there had never been a magic series on the relatively new medium of television. They convinced skeptical sponsors that viewers would accept magic on TV, and launched a legendary career. These days, Wilson and Darnell also run a 5,000-square-foot magic warehouse in Santa Clarita that rents magic props to professional magicians and to television and movie projects.

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■ Rancho Deluxe movie ranch as Sand fire flames advance. Courtesy photo.

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and lease those properties for them. “I developed a philosophy back then that I was going to change Newhall one property at a time.”

Special Report on Old Town Newhall It was once a lagging downtown with businesses that lost their sparkle, but Old Town Newhall is making a remarkable transition to a vibrant arts, entertainment and dining district. The plan is to reshape the area and make it more welcoming to pedestrians. With new boutiques, bars, and restaurants as well as live theater venues, the aim is to transform the downtown from a place that empties out after dark to a spot where residents and visitors from other communities could congregate – and spend their dollars. Commercial real estate broker Tim Crissman has been involved

Old Town Vision: Refocusing a Fading Retail District Redevelopment of Old Town Newhall has been a work in progress for almost 20 years, and in recent times efforts to revitalize the downtown area have gained momentum. After having overcome setbacks delivered by the state government and a nationwide economic recession, downtown Newhall appears poised for sizable steps forward in the not too distant future. The Newhall redevelopment effort got under way when the Santa Clarita City Council established the Newhall Redevelopment Project Area in 1997 to revitalize the downtown area, and that was what started the funding mechanism for the revitalization of Old Town Newhall. In 2005, the city adopted the Old Town Newhall Specific Plan, and that has been the guiding vision and policy document that outlines Old Town Newhall would become.

Art House Movies, Retail Space, Parking Added to Help Anchor the District

■ TMW Medical VP of Operations Johnny Valadez, left, and General Manager Brad Topper on the production floor. Photo by Dan Watson.

with Main Street in Old Town Newhall since 1983, when he started with Merrill Lynch Realty. “My very first transaction was selling the building to open Abe’s Pawn Shop, which remains to this day,” he recalled. “In fact, it’s probably the third oldest business on the block.” Crissman says many of the clients he first worked with in Old Town still own property there, and his firm continues to manage

Top Public Employers (Ranked by Total Employees) Company or Organization

Employees

William S. Hart Union School District

2192

College of the Canyons

1874

Saugus Union School District

1682

U.S. Postal Service

1010

Newhall School District

813

City of Santa Clarita

718

Castaic Union School District

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With its numerous soundstages and movie ranches, Santa Clarita is a hub for Hollywood film and TV production. So, perhaps it’s fitting that a Laemmle Theatre, one of the most storied art house movie chains in the Los Angeles region, should become a downtown fixture of Newhall’s redevelopment plan. The plan calls for three projects. The first is at the corner of Lyons and Railroad – a two-story, seven-screen Laemmle art house movie theater, with 2,300 square feet of retail or restaurant space. On Lyons and Main Street will be Newhall Crossing – 47 residential units and approximately 20,000 square feet of restaurant and retail space. On the southern-most corner of that block, at Railroad Avenue and Ninth Street, is the city’s 374-space parking structure.

With Gateway V Walls Tilted Up, Project Starts to Take Shape Workers began tilting up the walls of Santa Clarita Valley’s newest industrial and office development project, Gateway V, in

■ Newhall Library. Courtesy photo.

Santa Clarita Resident Richard Cook Moves Up at JPL Santa Clarita resident Richard Cook was named associate director for Flight Projects and Mission Success at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Prior to his new role, Cook served as JPL’s deputy director for Solar System Exploration since 2013. He held several JPL leadership positions in the Mars Exploration Program, including manager and deputy manager for the Mars Science Laboratory Project during development and operations. In those roles, he was responsible for design, development, launch and operations of the Curiosity rover, which successfully landed on Mars in August 2012 and continues beaming back images and data.

Northrop Grumman Exec Offers Potential Suppliers a ‘How To’ Talk If you’re a supplier to the aerospace industry, and you want to do business with Northrop Grumman, there are ground rules you need to know. The first is, “Do your homework.” Kevin Mitchell, vice president of global supply chain at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, the world’s fifth-largest defense contractor, addressed more than 70 aerospace business leaders at the SCV Aerospace & Defense Coalition (ADC) breakfast in October, and he gave the audience some pointers on becoming a supplier to the company.

Bayless Manufacturing Sells Buildings for Reported $12 Million Bayless Manufacturing Inc., a Valencia metal fabricator and precision machine shop since 1989, sold its two buildings for around $12 million, according to Los Angeles commercial real estate brokerage CBRE Group Inc. The buyer was Sierra Nevada Investment Group Inc., an industrial real estate investment firm in Los Angeles. Bayless signed a six-year lease with Sierra Nevada as part of the sale-leaseback deal. The buildings, at 26100 and 26140 Avenue Hall at Avenue Stanford in the Valencia Industrial Center, were on the market for six weeks, said Robert Valenziano, a broker with CBRE who represented Bayless with CBRE broker Craig Peters. Craig Lyon See 2016, page 31

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DECEMBER 2016

Largest Bioscience Companies (Ranked by # of Employees)

Company

Employees

Contact first name

Title

Address

Boston Scientific

875

Maulik Nanavaty

Principal

25155 Rye Canyon Loop, Valencia 91355

Advanced Bionics

700

Jim Robinson

VP

28515 Westinghouse Place, Valencia 91355

Quest Diagnostics

594

Sonya Engle

Director of Operations

27027 Tourney Rd., Valencia 91355

Pharmavite

487

Henry Burdick

President

28104 Witherspoon Pkwy., Valencia 91355

Q2 Solutions

320

Pearl Simon

HR Business Partner, Americas

27027 Tourney Rd., Valencia 91355

Shield Healthcare

300

Jim Snell

President

27911 Franklin Parkway, Valencia 91355

Bioness

200

Todd Cushman

President

25103 Rye Canyon Loop, Valencia 91355

Cardinal Health

200

Pamela Smaldone

Site Manager

27911 Franklin Parkway, Valencia 91355

Classic Wire Cut Company

142

Brett Bannerman

President

28210 ConstellationRd., Valencia 91355

Alfred Mann Foundation

80

David Hankin

CEO

25134 Rye Canyon Loop, Valencia 91355

Cicoil, LLC

75

Howard Lind

Managing Member

24960 Avenue Tibbits

Eckert Ziegler Isotope Prod

70

Frank Yeager

CEO

24937 Avenue Tibbits, Valencia 91355

Implant Direct

50

Ginger Page

Office Manager

26330 Diamond Pl #100, Santa Clarita 91350

Ultraviolet Devices

45

Richard Hayes

President

26145 Technology Dr., Valencia 91355

Neotech Products

40

Craig McCrary

President

28430 Witherspoon Pkwy., Valencia 91355

A and M Electronics Inc.

30

Ron Simpson

President

25018 Avenue Kearney, Valencia 91355

Avita Medical

25

Troy Barring

COO

28159 Avenue Stanford, Valencia 91355

SetPoint Medical

25

Tony Arnold

President & CEO

27441 Tourney Rd., Suite 200, Valencia 91355

Mannkind Corporation

20

Matthew Pfeffer

CEO

25134 Rye Canyon Loop #300, Valencia 91355

Talladium Inc.

20

Edward Harms

President

27360 Muirfield Ln., Valencia 91355

Telic

20

Matthew Kennedy

Director of Operations

24832 Avenue Rockefeller

TriMed Inc

20

David Medoff

CEO

27533 Avenue Hopkins, Valencia 91355

UTAK Laboratories

20

James Plutchak

COO

25020 Avenue Tibbits, Valencia 91355

Valencia Technologies

15

Jeff Greiner

CEO

28464-28466 Westinghouse Pl., Valencia 91355

Pharma Alliance Group Inc

12

Marvin Delgado

President

28518 Constellation Rd., Valencia 91355 SOURCE: Santa Clarita Valley Econommic Development Corp.

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Continued from page 29 of Craig Lyon Commercial and Steve Calhoun at Colliers International represented the buyer.

Scorpion’s New MultimillionDollar Headquarters Scorpion is preparing to break ground on its new eco-friendly, employee-focused headquarters, next to the Sunkist building on Entertainment Drive. The internet marketing firm is hoping to help establish the Santa Clarita Valley as an important tech hub, the firm said in a statement. Building in Santa Clarita affords the proximity of the downtown Los Angeles and Hollywood metropolitan areas while maintaining affordable housing and a family-friendly lifestyle for employees, the company said. “We chose Santa Clarita Valley as our permanent home because our employees live and thrive here, and we see it shaping into the epicenter of a tech hub that spreads across Los Angeles County,” Scorpion CEO and founder Rustin Kretz said in a statement.

Lost Canyon Apartments Sold for $61 Million The Townhomes at Lost Canyon, an apartment complex in Santa Clarita, has sold for $61 million, according to its buyer, Beverly Hills real estate investor KennedyWilson Holdings Inc. The company bought the complex at 18179 W. Terra Verde Place for $388,535 per unit. The seller was Resmark Cos., which bought the complex in 2013 for an undisclosed price. CBRE Capital Markets’ Debt & Structured Finance team secured $43 million of debt financing for the acquisition of the property.

NOVEMBER Six Hard-Learned Lessons for Businesses Most new businesses close the doors after a very short period of time. Eighty percent of start-ups fail within two years. About 4 percent of firms survive to the five-year mark.

Staying in business beyond that, well, the odds are very slim. Despite those odds, J&M Events celebrated being in business 36 years earlier this year. Founded and led by Jorge Lopez, the business has grown, stumbled, gone sideways and has matured into a full service entertainment and production company. As many owners realize, starting and growing a business is the most difficult job they could ever sign up for. The hardships are many; the learning curve is steep, long and expensive.

And while the rewards can be generous, they can also be fleeting. Lopez attributes his business longevity to six main lessons, some which he continues to seeking mentoring on even now.

Hypertension Controlling Device eCoin Enters the Next Stage of Testing Medical device maker Valencia Technologies received federal approval to begin human

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testing for its small implantable device designed to control hypertension. The device, called the eCoin, is intended to help patients with drug-resistant hypertension. The coinsized devices can be implanted in 20 minutes using local anesthetic. They are implanted in both of a patient’s forearms, and the two neurostimulators help control the subject’s blood pressure. Jeff Greiner, CEO of Valencia Technologies, said that the ultimate goal is to eliminate the need for medications used to treat hypertension. The first stage of testing will focus on the toughest to treat patients, those who are on three or more medications.

Island Blu, VaiWai Making a Splash with Natural Artesian Water from Fiji Mala and Pramesh Sharma believe that their two natural artesian water offerings, Island Blu and VaiWai, both imported from Fiji, are just the beverages to quench Southern Californians’ thirst.

Island Blu Natural Artesian Water is drawn from a pristine rainforest aquifer under certified organic farm land in Namosi. The fledgling company, based in Valencia, has been selling water bottled from the couple’s homeland since June. Rajeshni is the company’s owner and Pramesh is CFO. They came to Southern California from Fiji Island 35 years ago.

The company’s other brand, VaiWai – “Vai” means water in Polynesian, and “Wai” means water in Fijian – is the same water, but in biodegradable bottles. They’re up against some marketing powerhouses, including Voss and Fiji Water. “Fiji Water is a one billion dollar industry in America,” said Pramesh. “If we get one percent of that we’ll be happy.”

Matrix Concepts Revving Up its Line of Motorcycle, Bicycle Accessories Eddie Cole parlayed a love of motocross racing into a lucrative business, creating products, parts and accessories for motorcycles and high-end bicycles. A longtime Santa Clarita resident, Cole’s lifelong interest in off-road motorcycle racing began when he was young.

From the ages of 16 to 20, practically all he did was ride a motorcycle. His passion developed into a number of businesses related to the sport. He opened his first company in Valencia in 1976, and is now CEO of Matrix Concepts, which was founded by his sons Chadd and Cameron as a school project. Matrix employs a staff of around a dozen. The company’s products for the off-road motorcycle community include garage and track necessities, such as motorcycle stands, loading ramps, tie-downs, utility cans and rubber work mats – accessories for working on or transporting motorcycle.

Employers praised for programs to hire individuals with disabilities Feeling challenged? Nearly 200 Santa Clarita business and community leaders gathered in support of hiring individuals with disabilities at the Mayor’s Committee for Employment of Individuals with Disabilities. Some of Santa Clarita’s largest employers were recognized hiring those challenged by some of

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■ Island Blu artesian water company. Photo by Dan Watson.

life’s every day activities. “I am so proud to be in Santa Clarita and be surrounded by so many business professionals helping individuals with disabilities,” said committee President Ken Wiseman, also CEO and managing partner along with President Jay Catlin of AMS Fulfillment. A luncheon titled “Educate, Empower, Employ” featured information for employers on federal and state law, and representatives from the Department of Rehabilitation spoke to business owners about available tax credits.

Quest Diagnostics’ Women in Leadership network wins ACE award A Quest Diagnostics business network designed to help women advance in the business world won a prestigious award for its work in helping women reach higher leadership positions at the nationwide clinical laboratory services corporation. The Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) named Quest Diagnostics’ Women in Leadership Employee Business Network the winner of the 2016 HBA Advancement, Commitment, Engagement (ACE) award, recognizing internal leadership programs that advance the careers of women in their respective organizations.

■ Quest Diagnostics. Courtesy photo.

SCV Economic Development Corp. Receives Award The Santa Clarita Valley Economic Development Corporation (SCVEDC) received a Gold Excellence in Economic Development Award for its 2016 Still Golden Campaign project in the category of Special Purpose Print Brochure from the International Economic Development Council (IEDC). The honor was presented at an awards ceremony in Cleveland in September. “We are very proud to be honored amongst our peers of economic development organizations nationwide,” said Holly Schroeder, president and CEO of the SCV Economic Development Corporation.

“Our Still Golden campaign continues to highlight the Santa Clarita Valley as a place of entrepreneurial opportunity for companies large and small.”

BioSolar Working to Make Batteries Cheaper, More Efficient Question: What do a cell phones, Tesla electric cars and solar panels have in common?

Answer: Lithium-ion batteries, the compact, lightweight batteries used to power devices that you no doubt carry around with you every day. BioSolar, a Santa Clarita-based research and development firm wants to make those energy-storing devices perform better, charge faster and cost less. According to CEO and President David Lee BioSolar, the time is ripe for development of new battery technology. “There is a hot pursuit of better, newer chemistry, and better, newer battery technologies that will provide them higher capacity,” said Lee. “That means you can have a smaller battery that will have the same functions (as a larger one) in a device.”

E-commerce, Parcel Delivery Help Postage One Continue to Grow For Postage One, it’s all about saving money when you send mail and packages. A 47cent piece of mail may cost a Postage One customer 45 or 43 cents depending on volume, and that can add up to thousands of dollars in savings over the course of a year. That’s the backbone of the business, which is officially known as a “presort bureau.” Carriers pick up mail and packages and Postage One sorts it at its Valencia facility and combines it for ease of delivery by the U.S. Postal Service. They save the post office time, and in turn the post office offers them a price break, which Postage One passes on to its clients.

Sunvair Relocates to Larger Building, Plans Plating Facility Sunvair, the Valencia-based firm that specializes in overhauling aircraft landing gears, recently moved its operation into a larger plant, nearly tripling the 28,000 square feet it occupied in its former space to about 88,000 square feet in its new location. The move came about after the company outgrew its last building, but the new location also provides space for improvements to their shop capabilities, including a new nickel and chrome plating facility. Plating facilities play a crucial role in the landing gear overhaul work the company does, and the kind of plating the new facility will handle is not easy to find in this region, said Mike Dann, Sunvair’s vice president of sales and business development. 

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THE LIST

DECEMBER 2016

Aerospace and Defense (Ranked by Total Employees)

Company Name

Name

Title

Address

Employees

Woodward Inc

Carl Moffitt

Vice President & General Manager

25200 Rye Canyon Rd Santa Clarita

725

Aerospace Dynamics International

John Wall

VP and General Manager

25540 Rye Canyon Road Santa Clarita

705

PPG Aero

Barry Gillespie

CEO

24811 Ave Rockefeller Valencia

530

Wesco Aircraft

Dave Castagnola

President & CEO

27727 Avenue Scott Valencia

487

ITT Aerospace Corporation

Melissa Metz

HR Director

28150 Industry Drive Unit S Valencia

420

Regent Aerospace Corporation

Reza Soltanian

President

28110 W Harrison Pkwy Valencia

316

Bayless Engineering & Manufacturing

Earl Bayless

President

26100 Avenue Hall Santa Clarita

256

Esterline TA Aerospace

Jason Childs

President

28065 Franklin Pkwy Valencia

250

Stratasys Direct Inc

Joe Allison

PRESIDENT

28309 Avenue Crocker Valencia

240

Crissair, Inc.

Mike Alfred

President

28909 Avenue Williams Valencia

223

Forrest Machining, Inc.

Joanne Butler

PRESIDENT

27756 Avenue Mentry Valencia

220

B & B Manufacturing

Fred Duncan

President

27940 Beale Court Santa Clarita

220

ASC Process Systems

Dave Mason

President

28402 Livingston Ave Valencia

200

RAH Industries Inc

Ronald Hansen

CEO

24800 Avenue Rockefeller Valencia

200

Triumph Actuation Systems

Randy Lebetsamer

President

28150 Harrison Pkwy Valencia

194

Novacap

Mark Skoog

25111 Anza Drive Valencia

181

Fralock Corp

Scott Tucker

CEO

28525 W. Industry Dr Valencia

170

Del West Engineering Inc.

Al Sommer

President

28128 Livingston Ave Valenci

151

Lamsco West, Inc.

Steve Griffith

President

29101 The Old Road Santa Clarita

150

SGL Technic Inc

Brian Green

28176 N. Avenue Stanford Valencia

145

Classic Wre Cut Company Inc.

Brett Bannerman

President

28210 Constellation Rd Valencia

142

Donaldson Company Inc.

John Fuger

Plant Manager

26235 Technology Dr Valencia

139

Adept Fasteners

Gary Young

Owner

28709 Industry Dr Valencia

135

Stoll Metalcraft Inc

Gunter Stoll

President

24808 Anza Dr Valencia

100

Curtiss-Wright Controls

Tom Cuda

Branch Manager

28965 Avenue Penn Santa Clarita

100

True Position Technologies Inc

Allen Sumian

President

24900 Avenue Stanford Valencia

96

HarcoSemco

Keith Caruso

Director of Operations

25700 Rye Canyon Road Valencia

80

Sunvair, Inc.

Kerry Jarandson

President

29145 The Old Road Valencia

80

Flight Line Products Inc

Elle Manoukian

HR Manager

28732 Witherspoon Pkwy Valencia

75

Cicoil LLC

Howard Lind

President and CEO

24960 Avenue Tibbitts Valencia

75

National Technical Systems Inc.

Eric Hofmann

General Manager

20970 Centre Pointe Pkwy Santa Clarita

65

HRD Aero Systems, Inc.

Tom Salamone

President

25555 Avenue Stanford Valencia

65

Quantech Machining

Riad Hussein

Owner

25647 Rye Canyon Rd Valencia

55

Applied Companies, Inc.

Betsy Klinger

President & Owner

28020 Avenue Stanford Valencia

51

Whitmor Wirenetics

Michael Weiss

President

27737 Avenue Hopkins Santa Clarita

50

Cosmic Plastics Inc

Lillian Luh

President

28410 Industry Dr Valencia

50

Troll Systems Corporation

Michele Scott

President

24950 Anza Dr Valencia

40

Tri-Tek Electronics USA

Jim Gillson

President

25358 Avenue Stanford Valencia

40

Galaxy Die and Engineering Inc

Hamid Baig

CEO

24910 Avenue Tibbitts Valencia

40

Aero Engineering & Mfg Co

Dennis Junker

President

28217 Avenue Crocker Valencia

38

Performance Machine Technologies, Inc

Dennis Moran

President

25141 Avenue Stanford Valencia

38

Paragon Precision, Inc.

Allan Smith

President

25620 Rye Canyon Rd Ste A Valencia

35

Schrey & Sons Mold Co Inc

Tom Schrey

Partner

24735 Avenue Rockefeller Valencia

35

Certified Thermoplastics

Robert Duncan

President

26381 Ferry Ct. Santa Clarita

30

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Aerospace and Defense (Ranked by Total Employees) cont.

Company Name

Name

Title

Address

Employees

A and M Electronics Inc

Ron Simpspn

President

25018 Avenue Kearney, Valecia

30

Advanced Technology Machining

Joe Howton

Vice President

28210 Avenue Crocker, Ste 301, Valencia

30

Aircraft Component Repair Co

Dennis Mack

25058 Anza Drive, Santa Clarita

29

Air Frame Mfg & Supply Co Inc

Yoshi Kawamura

CEO & Founder

26135 Technology Dr., Valencia

28

Next Point Bearing

John Burroughs

President

28364 Avenue Crocker, Santa Clarita

28

Meschkat Precision Machining

Bodo Meschkat

Owner

27555 Avenue Scott, Valencia

26

Pacific Metal Stampings

Donald Schlotfelt

President

28415 Witherspoon Pkwy., Val;encia

26

Hamby Corporation

Nanette Hamby

President

27704 Avenue Scott, Valencia

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SOURCE: Santa Clarita Valley Econommic Development Corp.

Appointments

Michael Allman

Negin Kamali

Marsha Patrick

Appointed: CEO, H2Scan Corp., Valencia Formerly: Chairman and CEO of Southern California Gas Company, unit of Sempra Energy

Appointed: Director of Public Relations, Princess Cruises Formerly: Executive Director, Golin Public Relations, Los Angeles

Appointed: Sales Director, Western Region, Princess Cruises Formerly: Already with the company for 19 years.

John Musella

Patrick Mullen

Appointed: Business Editor, Appointed: 2017 Board Chairman, Santa Santa Clarita Valley Signal; Editor, Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce.

Santa Clarita Valley Business Journal Musella is President of Musella Group, a public Formerly: Executive Director, Reaching relations and corporate communications firm.

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An Update on Recent California Legislation

By Sean M. Kim In the recent General Election, California’s voters were faced with numerous ballot measures ranging from the use of plastic bags, to determining the extent to which a corporation should be allowed to provide political contributions. While the most-recent ballot allowed citizens of the state to steer the course of California’s future by exercising their right to vote, the California Legislature was busy preparing over one hundred bills for consideration by Governor Brown before their adjournment on August 31, 2016. As with any Legislative Session in California, employers were again the target of new requirements and regulations which Governor Brown had to sign or veto by September 30, 2016. This article identifies a few major changes impacting employers of workers in California.

Expansion on California Equal Pay Act Last year, the California Legislature passed the California Fair Pay Act which prohibits an employer from paying any of its employees wage rates that are less than what it pays employees of the opposite sex for “substantially similar work”. The Act defines “substantially similar work” as work that is mostly similar in skill, effort, responsibility, and performed under similar working conditions. Furthermore, the Act prohibits implementing or enforcing a policy that prevents employees from disclosing their wages, discussing the wages of others, or inquiring about others’ wages.

This year, the governor signed AB 1676 and SB 1063, a pair of co-dependent bills which expanded upon the California Equal Pay Act of 2015. The bills were crafted in a manner which required that if both bills were not passed, neither bill would become effective. AB 1676 states that an employer is prohibited from using prior salary history, by itself, to justify a disparity in compensation of employees who perform “substantially similar work.” At its core, AB 1676 was passed under the belief that there is a deep and pervasive history of discrepancy in compensation between the sexes. As such, in order to fulfill the goal of the California Equal Pay Act and establish equal compensation, an employer should be prohibited from using prior salaries as a basis for paying one employee less than another.

On the other hand, SB 1063 prohibits an employer from paying any employees a wage rate less than rates of other employees based on race or ethnicity for “substantially similar work”. In essence, SB 1063 extended the California Equal Pay Act from gender inequality to racial inequality.

Both AB 1676 and SB 1063 become effective January 1, 2017.

Expansion of Heat Regulations to Indoor Workers Cal-OSHA is a regulatory agency that sets forth standards aimed at protecting workers’ health and safety in varying industries. One such area Cal-OSHA has a long history of regulating is in relation to heat illness prevention for workers required to perform labor outdoors. In this regard, Cal-OSHA requires that

employers meticulously monitor the temperature of any outdoor work projects, provide extensive training in heat illness prevention to all level of employees, and, among other requirements, mandates that the employer make shade available for use by workers under certain circumstances. However, prior to SB 1167, such heat illness prevention programs were only needed by employers with employees who had to perform labor “under the sun”.

By signing SB 1167, Governor Brown is now tasking Cal-OSHA to prepare a regulatory model and enforcement of heat illness prevention programs for indoor workers. Specifically, this bill requires that Cal-OSHA propose a heat illness prevention standard applicable to workers working in indoor places of employment by no later than January 1, 2019.

Cal-OSHA is to set the standard based upon due consideration of “environmental temperatures, work activity levels, and other factors.”

Unfortunately, the bill does not specify what the focus of regulation will be for specified work performed indoors, in essence allowing for heat regulation of establishments ranging from restaurants to office spaces.

Choice of Forum/Choice of Law in Employment Contracts The premise of contracts in the legal system has been “bargain for exchange.” At one point in time, the courts of the United States enforced all contracts based on the notion that each term was understood, contemplated, and agreed upon by the signatories. However, with more and more employment contract terms being found to be

unconscionable (i.e. arbitration provisions) in California, SB 1241 certainly is in line with the trend of limiting what an employee in California can contract for.

SB 1241 adds Section 925 to the California Labor Code and prohibits the ability of employers to require contracted employees who work in California to agree to adjudicate disputes outside of California, or agree to apply law in such proceedings besides the law of California. In essence, California has determined that individual signatories should not be allowed to determine the terms of their employment relationship because an employee is in lesser bargaining position. With California having the most employee-friendly laws on the books, SB 1241 creates an issue for multi-state employers with employees contracted to work in California. SB 1241 is a serious concern for out-of-state employers who will have to concede to jurisdiction and application of California employment laws if wanting to maintain a presence within the state. The only exception carved out of the bill is regarding those employment contracts whereby the contracting employee enters into a choice of forum/law with the advice of independent counsel.

SB 1241 applies to all contracts between employers and California employees that are entered into, modified, or extended on or after January 1, 2017.  Sean M. Kim, an attorney with Poole & Shaffery, LLP, advises employers in the areas of Employment Law and Regulations Counseling; Labor Law and Employment Litigation. He can be reached at skim@pooleshaffery.com or (661) 290-2991.

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Banking Culture Matters:

Guide to Planning in 2017

By Tamara Gurney, President & CEO Mission Valley Bank

As 2016 quickly approaches, a common New Year’s resolution is to take control of your finances. This year, resolve to plan ahead. First things first – if you haven’t already, consider making the switch to an independent, community business bank to take advantage of the services of a Trusted Advisor who can assist and advise every step of the way, any day, all year long.

To stay on track with your resolution, here are a few simple steps that I have learned from one of my own Trusted Advisors – Darlynn Morgan (President of the Morgan Law Group). Simple steps to take each month that will allow you to achieve your goals at year’s end. Divide your financial planning into quarters and easily streamline your financial future.

grandchild, review and revise financial and legal considerations that may arise.

Estate planning can be difficult, but is crucial to financial peace of mind. Since estate tax rules and plans can change every year, take the opportunity to update outdated documents.

Review major changes in your professional life, as well. If you started a new business, changed jobs, or retired, adapt and adjust your budget accordingly.

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First Quarter: January- February- March The first step to planning ahead is looking back. Major changes in your personal life in the past year can affect this year’s finances.

If you got married, divorced, had a child or

Adequate insurance coverage provides financial reassurance. Review and update all policies: homeowners, auto, investment, property, disability and casualty.

An important but often overlooked aspect of personal financial planning is online banking accessibility. Compile a comprehensive list of accounts, usernames and passwords for your reference. As with all sensitive information, store the list in an extremely secure location.

Estate planning can be difficult, but is crucial to financial peace of mind. Since estate tax rules and plans can change every year, take the opportunity to update outdated documents.”

Second Quarter: April-May-June Reevaluate retirement plans and ask yourself how much you have now and how much you need in the future. Consult your Trusted Advisor to ensure saving and investment strategies answer those questions and align with personal goals, particularly if you have had a change in your life or circumstances.

Third Quarter: JulyAugust-September

Conduct a mid-year review of income and expenditures.

Review January to June, and adjust accordingly for August through December.

Check your credit report and report any discrepancies to appropriate agencies. A mid-year evaluation can also reveal if anyone else is using your identity and trying to obtain credit.

Request a Personal Earnings and Benefit Estimate Statement from the Social Security Administration that summarizes your social security earnings history and provides an estimate of the benefits to which you are entitled. It is important to verify that you

have been credited for all of your earnings.

Fourth Quarter: October- November-December Get a jump on your taxes in October. Estimate taxes and take the appropriate steps to minimize them before years’ end. Consider making gifts and charitable donations in the fourth quarter to ensure timely deductions.

In November, start year-end planning and resolve major issues before December 31st.

Finally, review your progress for the year.

Recalculate net worth and compare against the beginning of the year to see how well you did throughout the year.

While some of these ideas may not apply to your particular situation, professional guidance is always advisable to determine whether, how and when to implement any financial strategies.  Celebrating 15 years serving the community, Mission Valley Bank is a locally-owned, full service community business bank headquartered in Sun Valley, California with a branch office/business banking center in Santa Clarita. Tamara Gurney is President and CEO of Mission Valley Bank, and was named “Most Trusted Advisor -- Business Banking” and “Trailblazer” by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal. She is also past president of the California Independent Bankers and can be reached at (818) 394-2300. For more

Make Sure Your Technology Doesn’t Get Stuck In the Past

By James Deck, CEO, JD Systems The purpose of business technology is to propel an enterprise into the future.

Yet, too many businesses are reluctant to make major adjustments to their current IT systems, wrongly believing that it’s not worth the investment. The best way to approach an upgrade is to use an IT roadmap that lays out a plan for your technology’s future. This way, you won’t be surprised by what the future holds.

Here are three easy ways to “futureproof” your IT infrastructure.

Lease Your Computer Hardware It’s easier to upgrade when you’re leasing equipment, as opposed to paying for new equipment outright. Often, a hardware refresh will even be included in the terms of the lease, and at no additional cost. With leased equipment, you won’t have to worry about the consequences of hanging on to your old technology for too long because your hardware refresh will already be scheduled and taken care of by your vendor.

Leasing hardware will end up costing

you more than if you paid upfront for the equipment. However, considering leased hardware as an operating expense, instead of a capital expense, is very advantageous for your company’s future budget.

Layout Your IT Infrastructure to Accommodate Your Company’s Growth A mistake that a non-future-minded company makes with its technology is to set up its IT infrastructure to accommodate only current computing needs, and not designing a system to handle the organization’s growth. An IT system that’s designed for the future will have enough open access points to accommodate new users stemming from an increase in staff numbers, as well as enough available hard drive space and computing power to handle the IT trends that consume a lot of network resources, like BYOD (Bring Your Own

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Device) and The Internet of Things.

Without a future growth plan, you’ll be caught off guard by something that should be simple–like adding a new workstation, or finding you don’t have enough bandwidth for an important video conference because too many users are participating in the meeting.

Make Sure that Your Cloud Service is Flexible A business that’s taking advantage of the Cloud will often have an outside company host and manage its Cloud services,

A mistake that a non-futureminded company makes with its technology is to set up its IT infrastructure to accommodate only current computing needs, and not designing a system to handle the organization’s growth.” either partially or exclusively. Due to the unpredictable nature of your company’s future computing needs, you’re going to

want to commit to a Cloud agreement that’s flexible, instead of getting locked in to strict terms.

NetworkComputing explains: Cloud deployments tend to be dynamic– not static—and must grow or shrink depending on the requirements of the client.

Any agreement with a managed service provider (MSP) needs to cater to the variability that the consumptive nature of the Cloud provides.

Before implementing technology for your business, you’ll want to discuss with your MSP your company’s future computing needs so your IT system will be prepared for anything that the future holds. JD Systems can assist with identifying the right hardware, laying out an IT roadmap, and managing your Cloud services in a way that best suites your current and future needs.  James Deck is the Chief Executive Officer of JD Systems and an innovator in the information technology field for nearly two decades specializing in Managed Services, Cloud Solutions, and mobile and web application development. The content for this article is produced by Directive. James can be reached at jdeck@jdsystemsinc.com or (626) 486-9330.

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Canyons Apprenticeship Initiative

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CVEDC and College of the Canyons recently met with local manufacturers to discuss the launch of the Canyons Apprenticeship Program (CAP) that will help companies find and train talented employees.

Building off apprenticeship programs already approved by the US Department of Labor, COC will administer the programs, which combine on-the-job learning with job-related instruction.

Apprenticeships consist of 5 components:

• Business involvement o Employers are the foundation of every registered apprenticeship program

• Structured on-the-job training o Apprentices receive on-the-job training from an experienced mentor; typically, not less than one year

• Related instruction o Apprenticeships combine on-the-job learning with technical education at community colleges, technical schools, and apprenticeship training schools provided on-line or at the job site

• Rewards for skill gains o Apprentices receive increases in wages as they gain higher skill levels

• National Occupational Credential o Registered Apprenticeship programs result in a nationally recognized credential – a 100% guarantee to employers that apprentices are fully qualified for the job Many Santa Clarita Valley companies are already hiring workers from COC’s fast-track CNC training

program at the Center for Applied Competitive Technologies. Trainees in this program receive 8 weeks of intensive training, resulting in basic, entry level CNC operator skills. The CAP is intended to continue the training for these workers, as well as incumbent workers, so that they quickly and systematically advance their skills. Workers gain competency through a year of onthe-job training supplemented by related technical instruction that occurs outside the job setting.

COC and SCVEDC are currently prioritizing the occupations that will be the first to be approved for the apprenticeship program. They include: Machinists, CNC Set-up Operators, CNC Set-up Programmers, Maintenance Machinists, Metal Fabricators, Welders, and Quality Control Technicians.

Canyons Apprenticeship Program is an excellent addition to COC’s existing job-training efforts and will greatly benefit employers and employees alike. 

Logix Federal Credit Union Groundbreaking

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s Dave Styler, President and CEO of Logix Federal Credit Union, remarked in his opening introduction at the groundbreaking ceremony, October 26, 2016 was a momentous day in the history of Logix Federal Credit Union – it marked the beginning of a transitional period that will see the largest credit union in Los Angeles County move from its current Burbank location to a brand new modern building in the Santa Clarita Valley (SCV).

The relocation is driven by the tremendous growth that Logix has experienced in recent years. According to Styler, Logix has increased its members from 100,000 five years ago to 170,000 today; a rapid expansion propelled by the company’s superior offering in value and service. As swift gains in membership led to increasing numbers of employees, the company began looking for a location that could house its newly expanded headquarters.

The successful courting of Logix can be attributed to four key factors: the passion and proactive efforts from the community leaders, SCV’s business friendly reputation, great location for Logix employees to reside, and the dream factor that the 12-acre site offers. It was a true

team effort.

Bob Kellar, Mayor of the City of Santa Clarita, and Katherine Barger, Chief Deputy Supervisor of Los Angeles County, also spoke at the groundbreaking ceremony. Both singled out the critical role played by the Santa Clarita Valley Economic Development Corporation.

Phase I of the headquarters construction is scheduled to be completed in the third quarter of 2018. By that time, more than 500 employees will be working out of the new 170,000 SF Logix headquarters in a building that can house up to 900 employees. By the time the phase II of the project is completed, approximately 1,300 employees will be working in the 250,000 SF Logix headquarters.

We couldn’t be happier that Logix has chosen to grow

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their company here in Santa Clarita. They bring with them a track record of excellence and will provide highquality jobs to the residents of SCV. 

Econo Watch Santa Clarita Valley

Source: Santa Clarita Valley Economic Development Corporation

Q3 ’16

Q2 ’16

Q2 ’16 Sq Ft

Commercial Vacancy Rates Office Space

10.60%

10.40%

511,910

Industrial Space

2.30%

3.10%

439,602

Retail Space

4.90%

5.20%

619,637

Total Marked Sq. Ft. Vacancy Percentage Office Space - as a % of Vacancy

32.58

28.28%

N/A

Industrial Space - as a % of Vacancy

27.98

34.37%

N/A

Retail Space - as a % of Vacancy

39.44

37.35%

N/A

Oct ‘16

Sep ‘16

Sep’15

Commercial/Industrial Building Permits

0

0

1

Residential Building Permits

12

10

10

Building Permits

Local Company Stock Prices Bank of Santa Clarita (BSCA) Mannkind (MNKD) California Resources Corp California United Bank Carnival Corp. (CCL) Mission Valley Bank (MVLY) Six Flags * (SIX) Woodward (WWD) Lennar (LEN)

Oct ‘16 11.35 0.42 10.26 23.5 49.1 9.3 55.65 58.98 41.69

Sep ’16 11.3 0.62 12.5 22.81 48.82 8.25 53.61 62.48 42.34

% Change 0.44% -32.26% -17.92% 3.02% 0.57% 12.73% 3.81% -5.60% -1.54%

Unemployment Rates* Santa Clarita Palmdale Lancaster Glendale LA County

Oct ‘16 Sep16 % Change 4.6% 4.8% -4.17% 6.8% 7.0% -2.86% 5.7% 5.8% -1.72% 4.9% 5.0% -2.00% 5.1% 5.2% -1.92%

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Giving Thanks

By Lois Bauccio

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ince the pilgrim days in Plymouth Colony, November in America has heralded a time of Thanksgiving. Thanks are given for a bountiful harvest; thanks are given for a year of working together for a common good. We have much to be thankful for in Santa Clarita, including the notion of working together to strengthen our businesses and creating good jobs for ourselves, our friends, and our neighbors.

This is best personified in the strong economic partnerships between our County, our City, our Community College, and the various business groups which all work together to create a healthy environment for entrepreneurs, small businesses and large businesses alike.

Together, they make our community stronger. These business partners (representing all groups: utilities, retailers, manufacturers, service providers of every kind, and more) are philanthropic also, because they take measures to support and sponsor the nonprofit businesses that do so much to add to the quality of life here.

I am deeply thankful for these elements of Santa Clarita business life which we often take for granted.

I am also grateful for our Chamber staff working quietly behind the scenes, and the volunteers – the Board of Directors and the Ambassadors. They too are often taken for granted! It is the Ambassadors you see at our

grand openings, ribbon cuttings, Business After Hours Mixers, our Good Morning SCV networking breakfast, and more, doing yeoman’s work of all the necessary tasks that make our Chamber events fabulous. And it is the Board of Directors who govern and lead this venerable organization with dedication and commitment.

So, thanks to our business community, and thanks from the bottom of my heart to the Chamber Ambassadors, to my staff and to the incredible Board of Directors – an amazing group of business leaders. I will be thinking of you all as I tuck into my Thanksgiving turkey. Happy Thanksgiving to all! 

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SCV Locations Valencia Pharmacy

Hobby Lobby

Audiology Associates

The A List @ Indo Salon

D & J Party World

For information on these and other Chamber members, visit the Member Directory at scvchamber.com

DECEMBER 2016

SANTA CLARITA VALLEY BUSINESS JOURNAL

Valley Industry Association 25030 Avenue Tibbitts | Suite K | Valencia, CA 91355 | (661) 294-8088 | www.via.org | Content provided by VIA

VIA 2016 Year in Review

A photo essay celebrating the Valley Industry Association’s 35th year connecting and building industry in the Santa Clarita Valley.

January: VIA Turns 35

February: Employment Law Update

Since 1981, VIA has been the voice of business and industry in the Santa Clarita Valley and on the cutting edge of solutionsbased problem solving.

John Shaffery, managing partner of the law firm Poole and Shaffery, LLP, addressed a sell-out crowd at the annual Employment Law Update held at the Hyatt Regency Valencia.

June: Leadership Academy Takes Flight Terry Mayfield, Landsberg, led this year’s Leadership Academy, a multi-week program delivering instruction in leadership.

March: State of the College of the Canyons Address

May: California Voting Rights Act

Chancellor Dr. Dianne Van Hook, Santa Clarita Community College District, provided a snapshot of the college with its vision moving forward to an engaged audience of business leaders.

Partner Hunt Braly, Poole & Shaffery, LLP, provided details of the California Voting Rights Act

April: VIA Rocks!

VIA members rocked out during the first quarter VIA Rocks event at California Bank & Trust.

July: LAX is Happening

August: City Council Candidate Forum

September: California 38th Assembly District Forum

Mary Grady, Managing Director, Media and Public Relations, Los Angeles World Airports, gave an overview of the improvement projects that will transform LAX into a world-class airport, relieve traffic congestion and greatly improve travel experiences.

Nine of the 11 candidates for Santa Clarita City Council discussed issues, priorities and their vision as they introduced themselves to VIA members.

Candidates Dante Acosta and Christy Smith squared off in a forum moderated by VIA Advocacy Committee Chairman Carl Kanowsky.

October: The BASH Award Winners “Thank you, VIA, for 35 years representing business interests throughout the Santa Clarita Valley,” remarked guests at the gala event. Recognizing member achievements, this year’s VIA Awards recipients were Teresa Todd, Point of View Communications, awarded the Connie Worden-Roberts Volunteer of the Year; Nola Aronson’s Advanced Audiology awarded the VIA Rising Star; and, Poole & Shaffery, LLP, awarded VIA Business of the Year.

November: Connecting to Success Wraps Another Year

December: Joy to VIA! Masterson to Lead in 2017

VIA delivered three high-impact workplace readiness skills to 2,500 high school students in the areas of Building Your Image for Success and Money Smarts.

Ed Masterson, SOS Entertainment, accepts a second term as Chairman of the Board for 2017.

There is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch!

W

hy join VIA? Simply, VIA is a living, breathing organization that adapts to change but is solid in its core mission: To connect and build Santa Clarita Valley industry.

As a steadfast, issues-focused leader, VIA collaborates with regional organizations to form strategic partnerships that expand its focus and networking capabilities and strengthens areas of

influence. There are times when VIA reaches beyond the valley’s borders for the purpose of creating greater value for members.

Membership in VIA offers visibility, access to community leaders and elected officials, ongoing training, education and professional development, networking, low cost advertising opportunities, advocacy, and credibility for its members.

In the spirit of year-end giving, all new members who submit a VIA membership application and payment by Dec. 31, 2016 will receive a complimentary VIA monthly business luncheon certificate to be used in 2017.

For a membership application visit www.VIA.org/JoinVIA or call Kathy Norris at (661)294-8088 or email admin@ via.org.

VIA Luncheon Planning Calendar 2016 SPEAKER SERIES Luncheons begin at 11:45 a.m. at the Valencia Country Club, 27330 North Tourney Road in Valencia unless otherwise noted.

Business professionals interested in attending should plan to reserve their seat well in advance. Reservations and payment can be made at www.VIA.org/ Calendar or by contacting the VIA office at (661) 294-8088.

Tuesday, December 20, 2016 VIA Board Installation

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DECEMBER 2016

REAL ESTATE SECTION – Commercial, Industrial, Retail & Land Retail Buildings

Sq. Ft.

Sale/Lease

23154 Valencia Boulevard

10,300

Lease

$1.25 SF/MO/NNN

1,999 - 2,800 - 3,000

Lease

$2.50 - $3.00 SF/MO/NNN

Valencia Mart

25830-25848 McBean Parkway

Granary Square

21515 Soledad Canyon Road

Price

2,552

Lease

$1.25 SF/MO/NNN

916, 922, 1,022, 1,239

Lease

$2.00 SF/MO/NNN

2,250 - 3,500

Lease

$1.50 - $2.00 SF/MO/NNN

25739 Wayne Mills Place

1,061

Lease

$3.00 SF/MO/NNN

20605 Soledad Canyon Road

1,500

Lease

Negotiable

23323 - 23453 Lyons Avenue

2,575, 2,280, 3,600, 7,600

Lease

$1.50 - $3.25 SF/MO/NNN

Golden Oak Plaza

26477-26557 Golden Valley Road

Centre Pointe Marketplace

18597 – 18607 Soledad Canyon Road

Canyon Square

The Shops at Tourney

Free Standing Building

Old Orchard Shopping Center Patti Kutschko (Daum Commercial) 661-670-2003

23300 Cinema Drive

1,294

Lease

Cinema Park Reena Newhall 661-253-3344

23333 Cinema Drive

2,733

Lease

$2.50 SF/MO/NNN $2.50 SF/MO/NNN

Keith Bowers (NAI Capital) 661-705-3563

24254 – 24409 Main Street 500 – 6,000 24406 Main Street 1,550 24406 Main Street - Mixed Use Project 800 - 20,000 22520 Lyons Ave 1,000 - 2,200

Lease Lease Lease Lease

$1.65 SF/MO/NNN $1.50 SF/MO/NNN $2.25 - $3.00 SF/MO/MNN $2.25 - $3.00 SF/MO/MNN

24271 Main Street

900 - 2,160

Lease

$1.75 SF/MO/MNN

23120 – 23130 Lyons Avenue

900 – 5,000

Lease

$1.10 - $1.60 SF/MO/NNN

26865 – 26889 Sierra Highway

1,350 – 1,907

Lease

$2.35 SF/MO/NNN

25269 The Old Road

1,300 – 2,442

Lease

$1.50 SF/MO/NNN

3,053

Sub-Lease

$3.35 SF/MO/NNN

1,298 - 2,596

Lease

$2.00 - $2.25 SF/MO/NNN

600 - 2,362

Lease

$1.65 SF/MO/NNN

Laemmle Theatre Project

Old Town Newhall Properties Wayman Court

Riverview Plaza

Sunset Pointe Plaza

24003 Newhall Ranch Road

Bridgeport Village

25810 - 25852 West

Stevenson Ranch Plaza Tim Crissman (Re/Max-Crissman Commercial Services) 661-295-9300

23542-23560 Lyons Avenue

Plaza Posada Matt Sreden (NAI Capital) 818-742-1660, Cameron Gray (NAI Capital) 661-705-3569

28207- 28313 Newhall Ranch Rd.

8,090 - 11,090

Lease

$1.95 SF/MO/NNN

28112 - 28136 Newhall Ranch Rd.

1,195 - 3,650

Lease

$2.75 SF/M0/NNN

27923 – 27959 Seco Canyon Rd.

1,500 - 1,600

Lease

$2.50 SF/M0/NNN

18,000 - 54,000

Lease

Negotiable

SEC Newhall Ranch Rd. & Rye Canyon Rd. 1 ,500 - 10,000

Lease

$2.50 - $3.25 SF/MO/NNN

23600 Valencia Boulevard

5,000

Lease

$2.75 SF/MO/NNN

1,200 - 4,800

Lease

$2.50 SF/MO/NNN

23922 Summerhill Lane

1,195

Lease

$2.75 SF/MO/NNN

27544 Newhall Ranch Road

1,500

Lease

$2.50 SF/MO/NNN

Gateway Village

Highridge Crossing Seco Canyon Village

27095 McBean Parkway

The Promenade

Copper Ranch Plaza Creekside Place

27647 Bouquet Canyon Road

Bouquet Canyon Plaza Summerhill Village

Plaza Del Rancho John Cserkuti (NAI Capital) 661-705-3551

19045 Golden Valley Road, Unit #115

4,040

Sub-Lease

Office/Commercial Buildings 20605 Soledad Canyon Road 28005 Smyth Drive

$1.30 SF/MO/MG $1.30 SF/MO/MG

2,600

Lease

$1.15 SF/MO/MG

145- 350

Lease

Negotiable

28159 Avenue Stanford Unit #200 18,074 Lease Unit #224 1,414 Lease Unit #226 1,084 Lease Unit #170 2,829 Lease

$1.50 SF/MO/FSG $1.50 SF/MO/FSG $1.50 SF/MO/FSG $1.50 SF/MO/FSG

The Lyons Building Andrew Ghassemi (NAI Capital) 661-705-3039, Yair Haimoff (NAI Capital) 818-203-5429

28486 Westinghouse Place, Suite #100

Gateway Corporate Point Andrew Ghassemi (NAI Capital) 661- 705-3039, Yair Haimoff 818-203-5429

23300 Cinema Drive

Cinema Park/Executive Suites Reena Newhall 661-253-3344

Rexford Valencia Industrial Park Richard Ramirez (CBRE) 818- 907-4639, Robert Valenziano (CBRE) 818- 907-4663, Craig Peters (CBRE) 818- 907-4616

25322 Rye Canyon Road 25230 Avenue Stanford 26320 Diamond Place #170 26320 Diamond Place #200 26330 Diamond Place #190

27630 The Old Road 24300 – 24305 Town Center Drive 24510 Town Center Drive

1,700 – 7,000 997 – 8,565 660 – 2,337

Lease Lease Lease

Negotiable $2.20 -$3.50 SF/MO/NNN $3.00 SF/MO/NNN

Cody Chiarella (CBRE) 818-502-6730

24048 Newhall Avenue 27516 The Old Road

7,200 2,000 - 6,500

Sale Lease

488

Sublease

$3.35 SF/MO/NNN

23542 - 23560 Lyons Avenue

420 - 1,637

Lease

$1.65 SF/MO/NNN

1,790

Sublease

$1.15 SF/MO/NNN

Bridgeport Village Tim Crissman (Re/Max-Crissman Commercial Services) 661-295-9300 Plaza Posada

28486 Westinghouse Place, Unit #110

Matt Sreden (NAI Capital) 818-742-1660, Cameron Gray (NAI Capital) 661- 705-3569

28494 Westinghouse Place

552 - 2,208

Lease

$2.25 SF/MO/MG

27200 Tourney Road

2,181 - 22,919

Lease

$2.20-$2.65 SF/MO/FSG

25129 The Old Road 23822 Valencia Blvd.

2,300 857 - 4,104

Lease Lease

$2.45 SF/MO/FSG $2.25 SF/MO/FSG

23929 Valencia Blvd.

2,923

Lease

$2.35 SF/MO/FSG

1,866 - 10,965

Lease

$2.25 SF/MO/FSG

645-910

Lease

$1.50 SF/MO/MG

Valencia Atrium Tourney Pointe Valencia Oaks

Bank of America Tower

27202, 27220 & 27240 Turnberry

Summit at Valencia

25600 Rye Canyon Road

Kevin Fenenbock (Colliers Int.) 661-253-5204

27451 Tourney Road 3,392 Sublease 28480 Avenue Stanford 6,187 Sublease 25060 Avenue Stanford Suite #255 1,755 Lease Suite #260 1,940 Lease Suite #285 2,728 Lease Suite #295 1,133 Lease 25061 Avenue Stanford, Suite #100, Ind/Flex 5,687 Lease Lease 25020 Avenue Stanford, Suite #100 Ind/Flex 943 Suite 200, Ind/Flex 3,131 Lease

$1.85 SF/MO/FSG $1.85 SF/MO/FSG $1.85 SF/MO/FSG $1.85 SF/MO/FSG $1.10 SF/MO/Gross $1.10 SF/MO/Gross $1.10 SF/MO/Gross

24501 Town Center Drive, Suite #103

$2.30 SF/MO/NNN

Paragon Business Center John Erickson (Colliers Int.) 661-253-5202

27737 Bouquet Canyon Road

1,084- 2,191

Lease

$1.70 SF/MO/NNN

Andrew Ghassemi (NAI Capital) 661-705-3039, Randy Cude (NAI Capital) 661-705-3553, Yair Haimoff (NAI Capital) 818-203-5429 18926 - 18932 Soledad Canyon Road 900- 3,000 Lease Knoll Shopping Center

24250 Lyons Avenue

1,200

Sub-Lease

$1.75 SF/MO/NNN

$2.00 SF/MO/NNN

The Moss Center

Lease

1,814

Lease

$1.80 SF/NNN

915- 3,060

Lease

$2.65 - $2.80 SF/M0/FSG

1,187 - 20,000

Lease

$2.75 SF/MO/FSG

25350 - 25360 Magic Mountain Parkway 1,500 - 8,000

Lease

$2.85 SF/MO/FSG

24200 Magic Mountain Parkway

1,300 - 6,000

Lease

$2.25 SF/MO/NNN

2,389

Lease

$2.35 SF/MO/FSG

200 - 850

Lease

$1.75 SF/MO/FSG

486

Lease

$3.65 SF/MO/FSG

25115 Avenue Stanford

1,701 - 10,600

Lease

$1.75 SF/MO/FSG

Mann Bio-medical Park Craig Peters (CBRE) 818-907-4616, Doug Sonderegger (CBRE) 818-907-4607 Westridge Executive Plaza Richard Ramirez (CBRE) 818-907-4639, Craig Peters (CBRE) 818-907-4616 The Commons at Valencia Gateway Gateway Plaza

VTC IV David Solomon (CBRE) 818-907-4628

Valencia Executive Plaza Branson Brinton (SCV Commercial) 818-414-7657

21704 Golden Triangle Road

Yair Haimoff (NAI Capital) 818-203-5429

2,810

Hillside Professional Center Dan Robinson (Archer Real Estate) 661-255-0154

24001 Newhall Ranch Road, Suite #260

Bridgeport Marketplace Craig Peters (CRRE) 818-907-4616, Doug Sonderegger (CBRE) 818-907-4607

28111 Bouquet Canyon Road

850 - 3,000

Lease

$1.35 - $2.50 SF/MO/NNN

Valencia Park Executive Center Richard Ramirez (CBRE) 661-907-4639, Robert Valenziano (CBRE) 818-907-4663

26111 Bouquet Canyon Road

1,000 - 3,000

Lease

$1.75 - $2.00 SF/MO/NNN

18710 Soledad Canyon Road

1,250 - 3,000

Lease

$2.25 SF/MO/NNN

278737 Bouquet Canyon Road

1,021 - 2,191

Lease

$1.80 - $2.00 SF/MO/NNN

Santa Clarita Place

$2.35 SF/MO/FSG $1.50 SF/MO/FSG

Craig Peters (CBRE) 818-907-4616, Sam Glendon (CBRE) 818-502-6745

27201 Tourney Road $283.00 SF/$2,040,000 Negotiable

Sale $2.57 SF/MO/NNN/$6,500,000 Lease $1.45 SF/MO/MG Lease $1.15 SF/MO/NNN Lease $1.55 SF/MO/NNN Lease $1.15 SF/MO/NNN

24001 Newhall Ranch Road

25152 - 25154 Springfield Court

Sarkis Ghazaryan (NAI Capital) 661-705-3561

25,200 5,000 2,332 5,562 3,460

Yair Haimoff (NAI Capital) 818-203-5429

20655 Soledad Canyon 23323 Aqua Dulce Road 19971 Soledad Canyon Road 18517 Soledad Canyon Road

$45.00 SF/$99,000 $45.00 SF/$99,000 $56.00 SF/$65,000 $117.00 SF/$129,000

Price

Sale/Lease $2.00 SF/MO/NNN/$825,000 Sale TBD Lease Lease

26650 The Old Road

Sale Sale Sale Sale

Sale/Lease

402-1,700 1,350

The Plaza at Golden Valley Yair Haimoff (NAI Capital) 818-203-5429-1659, Matt Sreden (NAI Commercial) 818-742-1660, Randy Cude (NAI Commercial) 661-414-2004

2,200 2,200 1,150 1,100

1,500 8,946

Kevin Tamura (Daum Commercial) 661-670-2001, Ron Berndt (Daum Commercial) 661-670-2000, Patti Kutschko (Daum Commercial) 661-670-2003

22777 Lyons Avenue, Suite #219 22777 Lyons Avenue, Suite #100

25102 Rye Canyon Loop, Unit #120 $1.65- $1.75 SF/MO/NNN

Sq. Ft.

28470-28490 Avenue Stanford

1,273 - 10,600

Lease

$2.65 SF/MO/FSG

Santa Clarita Plaza

Valencia Corporate Plaza Craig Peters (CBRE) 818-907-4616, Richard Ramirez (CBRE) 818-907-4639

Soledad Entertainment

27413 Tourney Road, Suite #120 28546 Constellation Road

1,609 5,734

Lease Lease

$2.55 SF/MO/FSG $0.90 SF/MO/NNN

Randy Cude (NAI Capital) 661-705-3553

Richard Ramirez (CBRE) 818-907-4639, Craig Peters (CBRE) 818-907-4616

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REAL ESTATE SECTION – Commercial, Industrial, Retail & Land Office/Commercial Buildings cont. Sq. Ft.

Sale/Lease

Price

23734 Valencia Boulevard

1,523 - 1,860

Lease

$1.95 SF/MO/FSG + J

23838 Valencia Boulevard

1,110 - 2,674

Lease

$2.25 SF/MO/NNN

25078 Peachland Avenue

1,000

Lease

$1.95 SF/MO/MG + E + J

23502- 23504 Lyons Avenue

692 - 5,710

Lease

$1.55 SF/MO/FSG + J

23542- 23560 Lyons Avenue

450 - 4,000

Lease

$1.10 SF/MO/NNN

1,655

Lease

$2.45 SF/MO/FSG + J

Valencia Financial Center Atrium Medical Building Peachland Medical Arts Lyons Plaza Plaza Posada

28097 Smyth Drive

Cameron Gray (NAI Capital) 661-705-3569

26491 Summit Circle

2,397

Sale/Lease $742,000; $1.75 SF/MO/NNN

Summit Circle

24303 Walnut Street

200 - 770

Lease

$2.00 SF/MO/MG

Tim Crissman (Re/Max-Crissman Commercial Services) 661-295-9300

27955 Smyth Drive

28452 Constellation Road 26340 Diamond Place

Sq. Ft.

Sale/Lease

3,180 2,000 - 7,000

Lease Lease

24820 Avenue Tibbitts

13,045

Lease

28368 Constellation Road, Bldg C, Unit #360 4,017 26074 Avenue Hall; Unit #20 3,082 6,164 Unit #15 Unit #1 7,444 28079 Avenue Stanford 25,130 2,500 25570 Rye Canyon Road, Unit K 52,260 28650 Braxton Avenue 26943 - 26951 Reuther Avenue, Unit A 2,812 Unit C 1,535

Sale Lease Lease Lease Lease Lease Lease Lease Lease

1,500

Lease

$1.65 SF/MO/FSG

25158 Avenue Stanford 28486 Westinghouse Place Unit #120 28334 Industry Drive

603 - 1,340

Lease

$2.10 SF/MO/FSG

Matt Dierckman (CBRE) 818-502-6752

44,548 6,255 35,310

Sale Sale Lease

Randy Cude (NAI Capital) 661-705-3553

25060 Avenue Tibbitts

Office/ Medical Buildings

Craig Peters (CBRE) 818-907-4616

25775 McBean Parkway 25880 Tournament Road

Sq. Ft.

Sale/Lease

1,201 - 6,682 1,043 – 4,559

Lease Lease

Price $2.76 SF/MO/NNN Negotiable

$205.00 SF/$825,000 $0.95 SF/MO/Gross $0.95 SF/MO/Gross $0.95 SF/MO/Gross $0.70 SF.MO/NNN $1.10 SF/MO/Gross $0.65 SF/MO/NNN $0.95 SF/MO/Gross $0.95 SF/MO/Gross

John Erickson (Colliers Int.) 661-253-5202, Chris Erickson (Colliers Int.) 661-253-5207

$1.90- $2.00 SF/MO/FSG

Rebel Professional

$0.75 SF/MO/NNN

Tim Crissman (Re/Max-Crissman Commercial Services) 661-295-9300

Lease

Rebel Suites

Price $0.85 SF/MO/NNN $1.15 SF/MO/NNN

Yair Haimoff (NAI Capital) 818-203-5429

800 - 850

25050 Avenue Kearny

19042 Soledad Canyon Road

Industrial Buildings cont.

24971 Avenue Stanford

21,147 20,415

Sale Sale

$132.00 SF/$5,880,000 $209.00 SF/$1,307,000 $0.59 SF/MO/NNN $140.00 SF/$2,950,000 $135.00 SF/$2,800,000

Mark Sokolowski (NDKF) 310-491-2075, 818-497-8815, Sean O’Leary (NDKF) 310-491-2010

Cody Chiarella (CBRE) 818-502-6730, Troy Pollet (CBRE) 818-907-4620

24832 Avenue Rockefeller

22777 Lyons Avenue

Craig Peters (CBRE) 818-907-4616, Sam Glendon (CBRE) 818-502-6745

150 - 1700

Lease

$0.11- $2.33 SF/MO/MG

The Lyons Building Andrew Ghassemi (NAI Capital) 661-705-3039, Yair Haimoff (NAI Capital) 818- 203-5429, Randy Cude (NAI Capital) 661-705-3553

24355 Lyons Avenue

1,200 - 5,200

Lease

$2.25 SF/MO/NNN

23929 McBean Parkway

1,252 - 11,149

Lease

$2.75 - $3.65 SF/MO/NNN

Lyons Professional Building

Henry Mayo Hospital Campus Randy Cude (NAI Capital) 661-705-3553

25050 Peachland Avenue

800 - 4,000

25159 Avenue Stanford

$2.20 SF/MO/NNN

79,701

Sale Sale

$159.00 SF $115.00 SF/$9,200,000

Todd Lorber (NAI Capital) 818-933-2376

26557 Ruether Avenue 27955 Smyth Drive, Suite #107

4,800 850

Lease Lease

$.90 SF/MO/MG $1.85 SF/MO/FSG

Randy Cude (NAI Capital) 661-705-3553

27772 Avenue Scott

Lease

16,897

22,565

Lease

$0.80 SF/MO/NNN

Yair Haimoff (NAI Capital) 818-203-5429, Randy Cude (NAI Capital) 661-705-3553

24955 Avenue Kearny

69,219

28210 N. Avenue Stanford 28903 Avenue Paine 25161 Rye Canyon Loop; Building #61

116,143 146,000 23,292

Craig Peters (CBRE) 818-907-4616, Doug Sonderergger (CBRE) 818-907-4607

Mann Biomedical Park Craig Peters (CBRE) 818-907-4616, Doug Sonderegger (CBRE) 818-907-4607

Land (Commercial, Industrial & Retail) Acres

Sale

25371 Rye Canyon

81,190

SWC Golden Valley Rd./Centre Pt. Pkwy.

Sale

Plaza Posada Medical Center Matt Sreden (NAI Capital) 818-742-1660, Cameron Gray (NAI Capital) 661-705- 3569

28338 Valencia Boulevard

1,110 - 2,674

Copper Ranch Plaza

2,171-7,561

Lease

$2.25 SF/MO/NNN

Atrium Medical Building Cameron Gray (NAI Capital) 661-705-3569

1.5

Sale/Lease $405.00 SF; $3.25 SF/MO/NNN

Price $35.20 SF/$2,300,000

Nigel Stout (JLL) 818-531-9685

23600 Sierra Highway 15112 Sierra Highway 23658 Sierra Highway Placerita Canyon Sierra Highway

10 149 6 10 30,000

Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale

$14.35 SF/$6,250,000 $0.61 SF/$3,900,000 $18.00 SF/$4,700,000 $57.00 SF/$25,000,000+D225 $23.00 SF/$700,000

Randy Cude (NAI Capital) 661-705-3553

SWC Copperhill Drive & Rio Norte

8.65

149 15 38 10,743 149 26,179- 65,775 1.19 1.9 2.29 2.67 3.86 4.96 6.15

Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale

Sale/Lease

25014 Anza Drive

11,352

Lease

$21.00 SF/$1,100,000 $23.00 SF/$1,900,000 $21.00 SF/$2,100,000 $21.00 SF/$2,500,000 $21.00 SF/$3,500,000 $21.00 SF/$4,500,000 $21.00 SF/$5,600,000

Price $0.75 SF/MO/NNN

Lease Lease Lease Lease Lease

$1.75 SF/MO/NNN $1.49 SF/MO/NNN $1.49 SF/MO/NNN $1.57 - $1.85 SF/MO/NNN $1.49 SF/MO/NNN

Yair Haimoff (NAI Capital) 818-203-5429

Sale

$216.00 SF/$1,050,000

Michael Corbin (DAUM Commercial Services) 661-670-2004, Kevin Tamura (DAUM Commercial) 818-449-1631

28462 Constellation Road 28486 Constellation Road

3,584 7,513

Lease

$1.05 SF/MO/MG

25110 Rye Canyon Canyon Loop

8,384

Sublease

$0.61 SF/MO/NNN

28939 N. Avenue Williams

58,395

Sublease

$0.79 SF/MO/IG

20,866 50,261

Lease Lease

Mann Biomedical Park Tim Crissman (Re/Max-Crissman Commercial Services) 661-295-9300

$0.66 SF/MO/NNN $0.62 SF/MO/NNN+A327

Craig Peters (CBRE) 818-907-4616, Doug Sonderegger (CBRE) 818-907-4607

$0.60 SF/$3,900,000 $3.52 SF/$2,300,000 $0.37 SF/$629,000 $55.75 SF/$599,000 $.60 SF/$3,900,000 $16.00 SF/$1,100,000

Richard Ramirez (CBRE) 818-907-4639

4,857

2,994

Bernards Centre Point Park

27460 Avenue Scott Unit #D 24700 Avenue Rockefeller

Sq. Ft.

28348 Constellation Road

26374 Ruether Avenue

$30.00 SF/$2,430,000 $30.00 SF/$4,848,000

Industrial Buildings

4,598 - 5,588 1,360 3,032 - 4,865 990 1,833 - 4,865

TBD

Sale Sale

Kevin Tamura (Daum Commercial) 661-670 -2001, Ron Berndt (Daum Commercial) 661-670-2000

20655 Soledad Canyon Road, Unit #41 Unit #17 Unit # 24 Unit #42 Unit # 25

Sale

Bill Pentz (DAUM Commerical R/E) 818-449-1625 and Kevin Tamura (DAUM Commercial R/E) 818-449-1631

$22.00 SF/$8,500,000

Yair Haimoff (NAI Capital) 818-742-1659

SWC Soledad Canyon Rd/Golden Valley Rd Valley Business Center Valley Business Center Valley Business Center Valley Business Center Valley Business Center Valley Business Center

Sale/Lease $125 SF; $0.58 SF/MO/NNN Sale $142 SF + 1.8 ac. Land Lease $0.60 SF/MO/NNN

Sale

John Z. Cserkuti (NAI Capital) 661-705-3551

15112 Placertia Canyon Bouquet Canyon/Vasquez Canyon 14825 Sierra Highway 24605 Railroad Avenue 15112 Sierra Highway 21145 Centre Pointe Parkway

$0.63 SF/MO/NNN

Valencia Gateway Business Park Matt Sreden (NAI Capital) 818-742-1660, Yair Haimoff (NAI Capital) 818- 203-5429

West Creek

NEC Bouquet Canyon Road & Plum Canyon Road 1.86 Bouquet Canyon/Madrid Road 3.71

Lease

Rexford Industrial Business Park Craig Peters (CBRE) 818- 907-4616, Robert Valenziano (CBRE) 818- 907-4663

Sale/Lease $807,000/$0.99 SF/MO/NNN Sale $199.00 SF/$1,500,000

21515 Centre Pointe Parkway

16,773

Sale

$215.00 SF/$3,606,000

Chris Jackson (NAI Capital) 818-933-2368,Todd Lorber 818-933- 2376, Matt Ehrlich 818-933- 2364

27756 Avenue Hopkins 28348 Constellation Road

21,884 4,857

Lease Sale

$0.64 SF/M0/NNN $216.00 SF/$1,100,000

Kevin Tamura (DAUM Commercial), Ron Berndt (DAUM Commercial) 818-333-2207

28251 & 28255 Kelly Johnson Parkway

26,318

Lease

$0.85 SF/MO/NNN

Craig Peters (CBRE) 818-907-4616, Richard Ramirez (CBRE) 818-907-4639

Future Industrial Projects

Sq. Ft.

Sale/Lease

VCC; West of I-5/NE SR 126 Gateway V 60,923, 88,752, 105,407 Lease IAC Commerce Center (Phase 1) 93,600, 116,740, 187,880 Lease Sierra Highway/Newhall Avenue/East/SR14 Freeway Needham Ranch (Phase 1) 16,000 - 223,530 Sale /Lease

Price/Occupancy TBD;1Q 2017 TBD; 1Q 2017 TBD; 1Q 2017

Craig Peters (CBRE) 818-907-4616, Doug Sonderegger (CBRE) 818-907-4607, Richard Ramirez (CBRE) 818-907-4639

28608 Hasley Canyon Road Avalon Business Center

44,162 20,499, 23,668

Lease Lease

$0.72 SF/MO/NNN $0.74 SF/MO/NNN

James Ebanks (Realty Advisory Group Inc.) 661-702-8880 x 12, Lauren Ebanks (Realty Advisory Group Inc.) 661-702-8882 x 18

28528 Industry Drive

46,778

Sale

Gateway Industrial

$142.50 SF/$6,665,865

Doug Sonderegger (CBRE) 818-907-4607, Craig Peters (CBRE) 818-907-4616

Future Office Projects

Sq. Ft.

Sale/Lease

Price

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James E. Brown, Manager Business Attraction, SCVEDC, 661-288-4413, JimBrown@scvedc.org

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SANTA CLARITA VALLEY BUSINESS JOURNAL

DECEMBER 2016

REAL ESTATE SECTION – Residential Housing Stats - Santa Clarita Valley

SCV Median Home Value SCV Median Condo Value SCV Home Sales SCV Condo Sales SCV Avg. # of Days on Market (SF) SCV Single Family Home Inventory

Oct ‘16

Sept ‘16

Oct ’15

548,000 327,000 203 95 80 576

525,000 372,000 228 96 73 613

500,000 315,000 205 93 79 546

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Source: Santa Clarita Valley Economic Development Corporation.

October Sales

Acton New Listings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 Total Active Listings . . . . . . . . .48 New Escrows Closed. . . . . . . . . .7 Median Sale Price . . . . . $440,000

Newhall New Listings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Total Active Listings . . . . . . . . .50 New Escrows Closed. . . . . . . . .32 Median Sale Price . . . . . $312,000

Agua Dulce New Listings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Total Active Listings . . . . . . . . .27 New Escrows Closed. . . . . . . . . .3 Median Sale Price . . . . . $518,000

Saugus New Listings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60 Total Active Listings . . . . . . . .109 New Escrows Closed. . . . . . . . .67 Median Sale Price . . . . . $515,500

Canyon Country New Listings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69 Total Active Listings . . . . . . . .120 New Escrows Closed. . . . . . . . .67 Median Sale Price . . . . . $442,000

Stevenson Ranch New Listings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Total Active Listings . . . . . . . . . 30 New Escrows Closed. . . . . . . . . 17 Median Sale Price . . . . . $643,800

Castaic New Listings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 Total Active Listings . . . . . . . . .34 New Escrows Closed. . . . . . . . .23 Median Sale Price . . . . . $534,900

Valencia New Listings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95 Total Active Listings . . . . . . . .159 New Escrows Closed. . . . . . . . .82 Median Sale Price . . . . . $500,000

Kevin Fenenbock 661 253 5204 kevin.fenenbock@colliers.com DRE # 01165115

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Source: Southland Regional Association of Realtors. Oct. 1 - 31, 2016

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