Speeding Up the ER - Mountain View Calabasas | Ben Salem
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Speeding Up the ER - Mountain View Calabasas | Ben Salem
sfvbj.com SAN FERNANDOVALLEY BUSINESS JOURNAL LOS ANGELES • GLENDALE • SANTA CLARITA • BURBANK • CONEJO VALLEY • SIMI VALLEY • SAN FERNANDO • CALABASAS • AGOURA HILLS • ANTELOPE VALLEY THE Volume 19, Number 9 COMMUNITY OF BUSINESS TM May 5 - 18, 2014 • $4.00 Home Tract Gets OnTrack Up Front RESIDENTIAL: Simi subdivision closest yet to contaminated lab. By ELLIOT GOLAN Staff Reporter Grading has restarted on a nearly 1,600acre Simi Valley subdivision after a decade of controversy over its proximity to the contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory. Runkle Ranch would total more than 325 single-family homes and 138 senior condos when completed, as well as 1,100 acres of open space. Nestled in the Simi Hills, with views that reach across the city, it would seem like a dream project for the development partnership of L.A. builder KB Home and Lennar Homes, a unit of Lennar Corp. of Miami. But it has taken years to move forward given its position Can Jerry Shevick make parting with Fido easier? PAGE 4 Drive By: Los Robles Hospital billboard alongside Ventura (101) Freeway in the Conejo Valley. Sales are brighter at Andy Sreden’s PQL Inc. PAGE 5 LIST Speeding Up the ER Local hospitals hawk faster services via text, apps By JOEL RUSSELL Staff Writer T Money management firms. PAGE 13 MAIL TO: rue or not, emergency rooms have a wellestablished reputation as places where patients who desire care immediately can end up waiting hours. Now, local hospitals from Burbank to the Conejo Valley are borrowing a bit from both Madison Avenue and Silicon Valley to change that: they have been erecting billboards promising shorter wait times, often through the use of texting and apps. Perhaps the most prominent campaign is along the Ventura (101) Freeway in the Conejo Valley promoting Los Robles Hospital in Thousand Oaks and West Hills Hospital in Woodland Hills, both properties of Hospital Corp. of America of Nashville, Tenn. The signs feature a pair of cyclists and a number viewers can text for wait times. “When patients are in pain, they want to be seen fast, and just because a hospital is closest doesn’t mean they’ll be treated faster or more efficiently,” said Adam Blackstone, vice president of marketing at Los Robles. When a person responds to the freeway ads by sending a text, the message goes directly to a scheduling computer at the nearest HCA hospital emergency PHOTO BY DAVID SPRAGUE News & Analysis Please see RESIDENTIAL page 6 Ikea Heats Up Climate Fight DEVELOPMENT: Burbank faces global warming CEQA suit. By ELLIOT GOLAN Staff Reporter In the battle between developers and groups trying to slow them down, a new weapon is emerging – global warming. And it’s being put to the test in Burbank. Citizens Advocating Rational Development, a Woodland Hills environmental group, filed a lawsuit in L.A. Superior Court last month that seeks to halt construction of the country’s largest Ikea on grounds the project did not undergo sufficient review to assess and reduce its impact on global warming. The 470,000-square-foot Ikea was Please see HEALTH CARE page 35 Please see DEVELOPMENT page 34 East Meeting West in Santa Clarita Valley Gym FITNESS: Ekata mixes hardcore training with meditation and acupuncture. By STEPHANIE FORSHEE Staff Reporter Imagine a gym where you can spar in a boxing ring for an hour and then relax in a meditation session. Work out with a private trainer, followed by acupuncture therapy. Take a French kickboxing class and get a massage – while your children are learning martial arts or completing their homework with a tutor. At Ekata Training Center’s new facility in Santa Clarita, it’s all part of the package. Co-founders Ed Monaghan, 52, and his wife JoAnn Wabisca, 55, have worked in martial arts studios throughout Los Angeles County for more than 20 years, but this is the first time they have combined Eastern philosophy and Western sports training under one roof. The result is half martial arts studio, half sports club with a few other services on the side. “Our primary competitors are straight martial arts schools and gyms,” said Monaghan, who called himself an admirer of the late actor and martial arts expert Bruce Lee, who practiced what the gym is trying to teach. The Ekata training center has been in Santa Clarita for seven years as a traditional martial arts studio. It assumed its current configuration in March when the business moved from a 1,500-square-foot space to a 12,500-square-foot space at 27831 Smyth Drive amid growing competition. Like many communities, Santa Clarita has plenty PHOTO BY THOMAS WASPER Please see FITNESS page 35 Two Minds: Ed Monaghan at Ekata Training. Nomination Deadline: Friday, May 9, 2014 NOMINATE NOW! See page 28 for more information. REAL ESTATE Tilemaker Settles In With Build-to-Suit Offices 14 SAN FERNANDO VALLEY BUSINESS JOURNAL MAY 5, 2014 unit complex of 1,600-square-foot condos. Salem said units in Valley Village will price at about $600,000 while the Studio City units will price significantly higher – at up to $900,000 for the penthouse properties, which will feature private rooftop decks. INDUSTRIAL: Sun Valley firm signs 10-year lease and moves to North Hills. L uxury stone and tile maker Walker & Zanger Inc. has struck a deal to lease a built-to-suit headquarters in North Hills. The company will move from its current home in Sun Valley when the 126,000-squarefoot facility at 16719 Schoenborn St. is complete in the fall of 2015. The 10-year-lease with landlord and developer Geringer Capital of Beverly Hills is valued at roughly $14.7 million, or roughly 97 cents a square foot per month. As might be REAL ESTATE expected, that’s significantly higher than the Elliot Golan 56 cents average in the first quarter for the Central San Fernando Valley, according to the L.A. office of Colliers International. Pat Petrocelli, chief operating officer at Walker Zanger, said the facility will help keep the company in line with client expectations. “We’ve been looking to relocate from Sun Valley for some time. It’s just not the environment it was when we moved in 1989,” he said. Petrocelli said the company has spent the last several months working on interior design, including reinforced concrete beams as high as 30 feet and a showroom. Walker Zanger has been in business for more than 60 years and supplies stone and tile for both Upscale Urban: Rendering of Weddington Villas condos in Sherman Oaks. residential and commercial development. In 1997, the firm hit jackpot, supplying all the stone and tile in guest rooms and common areas for the ritzy Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas. More recently, the company has worked on a Viceroy hotel on Anguilla, a Carribbean island. It has 15 showrooms in seven states and more than 200 dealers. J.D. DeRosa, vice president at the downtown L.A. office of Transwestern, represented Walker Zanger. He said he spent several years looking for a new space in the San Fernando Valley, from Chatsworth to Glendale. “The existing location is across the street from a cement plant. It wasn’t exactly ideal,” he said. Petrocelli said the building is expected to break ground in September. Geringer did not return calls seeking comment. Upscale Urban A residential broker in Sherman Oaks has some high-end development plans for the Valley. Ben Salem, who works at the Sherman Oaks office of Rodeo Realty Inc., recently broke ground on what will be the first of three upscale multifamily projects. The Weddington Villas, a seven-unit townhome complex on Sepulveda Boulevard near the Sherman Oaks Galleria, will feature 2,000-square-foot units with steel framing and top-shelf amenities. “We want to do something that’s never been done in the Valley before,” Salem said. “This is going to be super sexy and sort of New York. Elevators going directly into the buildings, terraces on the roof, a lot of exposed steel – something very young and hip.” The project should be completed in November and units will be priced between $700,000 and $800,000. In addition, Salem and his partners, a friend from middle school and his dad, will soon break ground on two other projects: Hermitage Town Homes, a five-unit development of 2,000square-foot townhomes in Valley Village; and the Coldwater Villas in Studio City, an eight- Industrial Condos An 8-acre industrial park will be coming to the Conejo Valley. Conejo Merchant Ltd., a joint venture of Martin Teitelbaum, principal at Teitelbaum Construction Inc. of Camarillo, and Hugh Cassar, chief executive of Kretek International Inc., a Moorpark firm that distributes tobacco products, has purchased a vacant lot from the city of Thousand Oaks for $1.9 million. The city had spent about two decades trying to make affordable housing pencil out at the Conejo Center Drive and Conejo Spectrum Street site before giving up in September. The buyers plan to build about 75,000 square feet of industrial space comprising seven buildings ranging from 4,000 square feet to 8,000 square feet and commercial condominiums ranging from about 1,800 square feet to 3,000 square feet. The market could use the space. According to the L.A. office of Colliers, the industrial vacancy rate in the Conejo Valley was at 1.4 percent – the lowest in the region. Mike Tingus, president at the L.A. North/ Ventura office of Lee & Associates, who represented both the buyer and the seller, said the construction is long overdue. “It’s been 25 years since there has been new, smaller-sized industrial development in this market,” he said. Grant Fulkerson, principal at the L.A. North/ Ventura office of Lee, also represented both sides. Staff Reporter Elliot Golan can be reached at (818) 316-3123 or egolan@sfvbj.com. /ÀÕ«>ÀÌÊUÊiÌÀÊUÊ,-ÊUÊ*-ÊÌiV ÊUÊ}iÜÊÕÌ}Õ>ÊUÊÊ>V } Watch their stories at venturacountygrowsbusiness.com Kinamed, Ki K Kin iin naam ame m meed, d, Inc IIn ncc n Bill Bi B Bil iilll Pratt Pra rrat aattt VP Operations, VP Ope O Op ppeerra rat ation at ation iiooon ns, s, Director Diir Dir D Direc irect eecccttor ecto or of of Creative Crreeeati Cr Cre ati aat tivvee Design ti Dessig Des i ig ign When JetAir Technologies, LLC needed financing for expansion, free consulting. 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