by The Editors on July 14, 2009
Per Se, the new California French restaurant and wine bar located in the in the newly built yet oddly Tudor building that snakes behind Beach City Smoothies from Roosevelt to Carlsbad Village Drive, is set to open in early August according to the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce.
Featuring private dining, patio dining, wine pairing dinners and wine tasting events, the restaurant offers California cuisine with French influences. Locally grown organic produce, prime meats, game and fresh seafood will delight patrons.
We’re looking forward to the grand opening and trying out what promises to be amazing addition to Carlsbadistan’s high-end dining options. Click the link for more info.
[Link: Per Se Carlsbad]
by The Editors on June 21, 2009
Merlin Entertainments, the company that owns Legoland California, may be looking to build a new Legoland in Florida on the site of “Florida’s first theme park” Cypress Gardens, according to a report on Screamscape.com.
One of the website’s readers was apparently invited to take an online survey.
The questions were all about building Legoland Florida, which would be based on the basic design and layout of the Legoland California park, and feature about 50 different rides and attractions. . . The survey asked some basic questions about ticket price levels as well trying to tell how interested people would be in visiting Legoland Florida on their next trip to the area. . . However the most interesting thing of all were questions that asked if Legoland chose to build their park on the site of Cypress Gardens, would you be more or less interested in visiting.
If plans go through it looks like Carlsbad will be a little less unique.
[Link: Screamscape via Lifthil]
by The Editors on June 21, 2009
Carlsbadistan’s grand dame of Jazzercise Judi Sheppard Missett is interviewed in today’s The Desert Sun regarding her company’s 40th Anniversary and how it all got started. And it looks like business is going well.
It goes back to 1969, and my belief that dance can bring you health and joy, physically and mentally. What motivated me was an experience I had while teaching a class in Evanston between performances as a professional dancer. Some people stayed for two or three classes, and when I asked them why, they’d say, ‘Judi, I’m not here to be a professional dancer. We just want to have the body of a professional dancer.’ . . . Jazzercise Inc., an exercise phenomenon that grew from a one-woman class to a venture with more than 7,500 franchise locations that posted $93 million in systemwide sales in 2007-08.
Not bad at all. For the rest of the interview click the link.
[Link: The Desert Sun]
by The Editors on June 20, 2009
In a recent column Reuters’ “blogging money and politics” writer James Pethokoukis asked the question: Is Callaway Golf a good play in the recession?”
James goes on to say that the golf business is getting hammered right now and that sales could be down 17 to 20 percent rather than the 5 to 10 percent that Callaway reported.
However, most analysts agree Callaway boasts a strong balance sheet and one of the best golf brands. . . And the new drivers are doing better than expected as the company is using them to clear out unwanted fairway wood inventory, Gilford Securities analyst Casey Alexander said. . . In fact, the stock is likely to rebound as things improve, said Alexander, who has a “buy” rating on the stock and also runs a small hedge fund that holds Callaway shares.
Guess that’s a “yes.”
[Link: Reuters]
by The Editors on June 20, 2009
The San Diego News Network’s Helen Kaiao Chang interviewed Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce CEO Ted Owen and got the longtime San Diego Business Journal publisher to answer five questions about his current job.
One of the reasons I was interested in this job is I’ve always had a penchant for wanting to counsel people on how to run a business. I love working with small-business people who have ideas and new products that they have no concept on how to take to the market, how to find financing. . . I get a great deal of satisfaction out of meeting with a person, on a number of occasions, for two to three hours at a time. My biggest satisfaction is … as they leave the chamber and look over their shoulders and wave goodbye, there’s a smile on their face. That’s payment enough for me. We do it for free.
Now that we think about it, Mr. Owen sounds like someone we should have spoken to years ago. . .
[Link: San Diego News Network]
by The Editors on June 20, 2009
Ted Vallas the former owner of The Olympic Resort on the corner of Palomar Airport Road and El Camino Real has announced that he is launching new regional airline out of the Carlsbad-Palomar Airport, according to a story on TradingMarkets.com.
The entrepreneur. . . said he plans to launch Carlsbad Palomar Airline with three to six mid-range, mid-size jets, potentially models made by Bombardier, of Canada; Fokker, of the Netherlands; and Embraer, of Brazil. . . Initial flights would include three daily flights to Oakland, with 70 seats each. Two daily flights with 50 to 70 seats would go to Phoenix and then on to Tucson, Ariz. A sixth daily flight would go south to Cabo San Lucas, a resort area at the southern tip of Baja California.
Guess there is no better time to start a business that in a economic downturn.
[Link: Trading Markets]
by The Editors on June 14, 2009
The Carlsbad lagoon is a working lagoon and San Diego Union-Tribune writer Michael Burge checks in on one of the lesser known aspects of the aqua farming business: sea horse ranching.
“I call it a living reef,” said John Davis, Carlsbad Aquafarm’s owner. “You go out there, you come out of the water and you’re alive with things.” . . Behind the aquafarm’s gates on the lagoon’s south shore are tanks where the shellfish grow from larvae to mature adults. The 18 employees also cultivate micro-and macroalgae as food, and brine shrimp, the oats for the sea horses. . . .Davis, a tall, silver-haired former Navy and airline pilot, said he began raising the sea horses about five years ago.
Now, Davis sells sea horses to “Legoland’s Sea Life and Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and to wholesalers who sell them to private individuals.” Cowboy up!
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on June 14, 2009
The first thing we thought of when we heard about the Battle of Aviara was what would it mean for people who owned timeshares at the Four Seasons Resort and were faced now with the possibility that their timeshare was no longer being attached to a The Four Seasons hotel.
In today’s San Diego Union-Tribune writer Lori Weisberg explores the timeshare side of the disagreement between Aviara owners Broadreach Capital and management company the Four Seasons.
“People are definitely concerned, and everyone I’ve heard from is not happy about it,” said Steve Tuttle, who owns a title company in Utah and has at various times bought 25 time shares around the country, including a week at the Four Seasons Residence Club at the Aviara resort. . . “You buy into a lifestyle that now has the potential to be seriously altered. I worry the maintenance fees may go up and access to hotel facilities could be altered.”
According to the story experts don’t exactly agree on what will happen with the timeshares if the Four Seasons leaves the property. Follow the link for the rest of the story.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on June 13, 2009
Our favorite Carlsbadistan based life sciences company Life Technologies has just awarded $2 million to three grant recipients working to advance science including DNA–PROKIDS, the New York Academy of Sciences, and Science Museum in London, England.
“We are proud to support these innovative organizations that advance scientific understanding,” said Greg Lucier, Chairman and CEO of Life Technologies. “The grantees we have chosen are working to demystify science to the public by providing training and access for using biology to make life even better.”
Nice to see a company giving back. For all the details follow the jump.
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by The Editors on June 13, 2009
According to a story on the San Diego News Network Sami Ladecki will have a grand re-opening for the the Carlsbad Sammy’s Woodfired Pizza on June 24, 2009 with an “invite-only” benefit for the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce Partners in Education Foundation. The restaurant was gutted by a gas explosion on July 29, 2008 which caused more than $1 million in damages.
Sammy’s will then open to the public on June 25, 2009. We’re glad to have Sammy’s back. Seems we still have a gift certificate that we thought we’d have to leave Carlsbadistan to redeem.
[Link: San Diego News Network]
Per Se, the new California French restaurant and wine bar located in the in the newly built yet oddly Tudor building that snakes behind Beach City Smoothies from Roosevelt to Carlsbad Village Drive, is set to open in early August according to the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce.
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