Yearly Archives: 2013

Santa Barbara - September 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Rep. Lois Capps (CA-24) encouraged residents and business owners to take time to review plans for their families, homes, and businesses as part of National Preparedness Month, which is recognized each September.

REDDING, CA - September 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The California Department of Insurance (CDI) is currently tracking evacuations due to wildfires in the state, including the recovery efforts after the Clover Firenear Redding that left 68 residences destroyed, five damaged and the death of 56-year-old Brian Stanley Henry that remains under investigation. Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones is reminding wildfire evacuees that they may be eligible for reimbursement for additional living expenses due to mandatory evacuations.

WALNUT GROVE, CA - September 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman John Garamendi (D-Fairfield, CA), a Member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today congratulated UC Davis’s Institute of Transportation Studies on being selected in a national competition to lead a new two-year, $11.2 million research consortium for the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). The newly created National Center for Sustainable Transportation (NCST) will receive funding through a $5.6 million grant from the U.S. DOT and $5.6 million in matching funds from state, regional, and local agencies. The NCST will use the money to assert national leadership in reducing carbon emissions from transportation systems while supporting climate adaptation activities and continued mitigation of air pollution and other environmental impacts.

SAN JOSE, CA - September 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose, Calif.) announced today that two San Jose based community development organizations will receive federal grant funding totaling nearly $2.7 million for small business development and affordable housing. The two grants, each valued at $1.347 million, are being awarded by the U.S. Treasury Department's Community Development Financial Institution's (CDFI) fund to the Opportunity Fund and the Housing Trust of Santa Clara County.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Veterans transitioning from homelessness back to the community now have a new resource in the Veterans Home of California, West Los Angeles with 84 transitional beds opening through a partnership with the California Department of Veterans Affairs (CalVet) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System (VA-GLA).

ORLANDO, Fla. - September 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida is honored to be awarded a $25,000 grant from S.L. Gimbel Foundation Advised Fund at The Community Foundation Serving the Counties of Riverside and San Bernandino, California.

Woodland, CA - September 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- On Monday, September 23 at 11:00 a.m., Yolo County will dedicate its new community garden, located adjacent to the Herbert Bauer Health and Alcohol, Drug & Mental Health Building at 137 N. Cottonwood Avenue in Woodland. The garden is a quarter-acre plot of land that will have multiple garden areas including one for children, a demonstration garden and a community garden and orchard.

LOS ANGELES, CA - September 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Kevin Kawaoka and Mario Gandara with NAI Capital’s West L.A. office represented the Seller, S&B Family LP, and the Buyer, private investor, in the sale and purchase of a 9 unit multifamily property located at 11504 Rochester Avenue in West Los Angeles, CA. The value of the sales transaction was $1.5 million.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 24, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee & Associates, one of the largest broker-owned commercial real estate firms in the country, has closed a $6.6 million sale at 2995 Airway Avenue.

LOS ANGELES, CA - September 24, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rising mortgage rates dampened pending home sales in August, while distressed home sales fell to levels not seen in nearly six years, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) reported today.

LOS ANGELES, CA - September 24, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The San Diego Center for Civic Engagement’s Opening the Outdoors initiative and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) U.S.-Mexico Border 2020 Program this month awarded $45,000 to the nonprofit group 4Walls International for the construction of a bi-national park space that will use trash pulled from the Tijuana River Valley and tributary canyons as building materials.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 24, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today Rep. Henry A. Waxman joined CalVet Secretary Peter J. Gravett, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System Director Donna Beiter, LA County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, and CalVet and VA senior staff at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Facility as they announced the Veterans Transitional Housing Program, which will open up new beds for Los Angeles homeless veterans on the West LA VA campus

Driver SPG - September 24, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- C.W. Driver’s Anaheim-based construction affiliate with a focus on renovation, modernization and smaller new construction projects – has been awarded a $14 million interior renovation project for 111,000-square-feet of downtown office space. The property is located at 845 South Figueroa Street. Driver SPG’s fast track project will provide a contemporary new home for the State Bar of California, which will occupy floors 2-5 of the five-story structure. The project is scheduled for completion in December 2013.

IRVINE, CA - September 24, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Award-winning national firm KTGY Group, Inc., Architecture + Planning, is pleased to announce that KTGY Principal Keith Labus, AIA and LEED AP has been invited to be a speaker at the San Diego Housing Federation’s Annual Affordable Housing and Community Development Conference on October 3. It is the largest affordable housing gathering in the region, attracting over 300 attendees every year

WASHINGTON, DC - September 20, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Representative Henry A. Waxman joined 27 members of the California congressional delegation to send a letter to California Governor Jerry Brown urging him to sign AB 639, the Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Act.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 19, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Edwin M. Lee with District 7 Supervisor Norman Yee, the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center, Mercy Housing California and other City and community leaders broke ground on the new 1100 Ocean Avenue Apartments, which include 71 affordable units for low income families and transitional-age youth (TAY) who are young adults that have recently aged out of the foster care system. Following the housing construction, a new public open space plaza will be built to complement the growing neighborhood and allow for community events such as fairs, farmer’s markets and other activities accessible to the public

NEWPORT BEACH, CA - September 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Sept. 17, 2013—Lee & Associates, one of the largest broker-owned commercial real estate firms in the country, has facilitated the $11 million multi-year lease of 9351 Jeronimo Road in Irvine.

LOS ANGELES, CA - September 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Following a strong performance in July, California’s housing market pulled back in August as mortgage rates continued to inch up, although sales of condominiums and townhomes remained robust, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) reported.

IRVINE, CA - September 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Award-winning national firm KTGY Group, Inc., Architecture + Planning, announced today that the firm's entry "Wishing Away Hunger" in Orange County’s 6th Annual CANstruction design/build competition at the South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, Calif., won an Honorable Mention for its popular Genie from Disney's Aladdin, made of 3,000 canned food items. KTGY’s innovative design and planning capabilities, normally reserved for real estate builders, owners, investors and developers of all property types, were used to design this very colorful, 10-foot tall Genie.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- An estimated 42,546 new and resale houses and condos sold statewide last month. That was down 1.9 percent from a revised 43,381 in July, and up 3.1 percent from 41,280 sales in August 2012, according to San Diego-based DataQuick.