Read Our Latest San Clemente Times Column: "Business Buzz: Historic City Hall To Be Demolished, Exact Replica To Be Built In Its Place."
By Arrow Santos
Recently, the building owner of Historic City Hall (101 S El Camino Real) reached out to us to aid in his search for new uses for his iconic property. He had correctly heard that quixotic contrivances were our business specialty within the San Clemente Chamber of Commerce, and we readily welcomed his enlistment for this endeavor.
Located on arguably one of the best business lots in downtown San Clemente, Historic City Hall commands a view down Del Mar, with the sightline stretching beyond to the ocean and horizon. Unlike its exhilarating position at the top of town, not much excitement has made its way from the exterior to the interior in many moons. Also, what’s up with everyone saying this location never was city hall historically anyway!?...…continue reading
Applied Medical Owns 36% Of All Rancho Santa Margarita Industrial Real Estate Space
By Arrow Santos and Jim Wynne
Applied Medical is a medical device company specializing in innovative new technology and the advancement of minimally invasive surgery. Applied Medical was founded in 1987 by Said Hilal and had only seven employees at first. Now a business powerhouse and real estate empire, the company employs over 5,000 people across the globe. Headquartered in Rancho Santa Margarita, Applied Medical has purchased dozens of industrial properties across the city over the last few decades. Take a drive around town and you will see their brand-painted industrial buildings all around the business park....…continue reading
Read Our Latest San Clemente Times Column: "My Afternoon With Ole."
By Arrow Santos
Of the “7 Wonders of the Ancient World,” only one remains today: the Great Pyramid of Giza. The other six have been lost to history, with the occasional rubble heap left behind.
To be fair, the Great Pyramid started as a stone pile and has dutifully remained as such ever since. The rest of those once irreplaceable locations are essentially of no relevance today.
Recently, San Clemente’s very own “Wonder” of the not-so-ancient world, Casa Romantica, nearly turned into a pile of stones.
Coastal cliffside instability under the Casa led to two major landslides in recent months, causing significant damage to the estate, disruption to railroad service on the tracks below, and uncertainty about the future of this nationally registered historic site...…continue reading
Read Our Latest San Clemente Times Column: "Mayor to Announce New Galactic Empire During State of the City Event.""
By Jim Wynne & Arrow Santos
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Congratulations to Tyler; thanks for everything you do to give back to our wonderful beach town!
See the rest of the award recipients here:
https://www.sanclementetimes.com/wayne-eggleston-teri-steel-among-honorees-at-chamber-of-commerce-awards/
Read Our Latest Column: "Vote With Your Brain, But Not If We Don't Agree."
Fall is in the air, pumpkin-everything is everywhere, we only have to complain about e-bikes before and after school hours now, and Election season is upon us.
Every couple of years, we experience this special time of unity and civil enthusiasm, where everyone easily agrees on the solutions we all intrinsically know are best for the issues we all universally agree are, indeed, issues.
But since we have orbited about 185 million miles since the last election, we put together this super simple and easy-to-follow guide to refresh our collective memories on how we know what we know and why we can know anything at all, resulting in who we should all vote for of course..…continue reading
Last night Jim Wynne had the honor of moderating the City of San Clemente city council candidate forum. There are three seats up for grabs this election, with 10 candidates running for these spots! Click to watch here…
Read Our Latest Column: "Hello From Before The Grave."
Welp, we’re all gonna die. As a matter of fact, some of you will read this after I am dead, so hello to my internet stalkers. It’s not that I’m dying with urgency, just passively like the rest of you. I currently plan to be still “here” to write the next bi-monthly column - although the writing process is so stressful it may actually be the kinetic death of me. But come on, I’m not the only person who Googles someone when I see a local obituary or tragic news story. And i.…continue reading
San Clemente, CA: Initial development plans have been submitted to the City of San Clemente, requesting a massive Amazon facility be constructed in the heart of the Rancho San Clemente Business Park. The target location is on two of RSCBP’s last vacant land parcels, situated between Calle Sombra and Calle Cordillera. Sprawling over 20 acres, the industrial facility would measure nearly 98,000... Read More
Dear Reader, you just called in a Close Air Support (CAS) strike on what is currently Santa Margarita Toyota. Congratulations on your first “9-line” radio transmission as a Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) – unless you are in the military and do this regularly, in which case: thank you for your service and please let us know how our skills are.
Alright, bizarre, potentially inappropriate opening but you got my attention; what’s this article about? Rancho Santa Margarita has an unknown volume of practice ordnance and explosive waste (OEW) scattered throughout the community, pending ongoing clean-up effort completion in 2033.
Lake Forest, CA: Wow, Montana is nice this time of year! Wait a minute, this isn’t a rustic ranch vacation spot – it’s the brand-new Lake Forest Civic Center! The four-building, 103,000sf campus has been 25 years in the making. It opened at the end of 2019, but finishing touches are still being wrapped up across the massive facility. First impressions: This place is REALLY nice – and no details were spared in its creation.
As a small means of hope in these troubling times, we have curated and prepared a list of business resources with potential means of relief for those whose economic enterprises are in danger because of the Coronavirus pandemic (which seems to be an exponentially growing number of people every new day).
Service industry businesses have been obliterated essentially overnight, with the ripple to all businesses not far behind.
Jim Wynne at Kidder Mathews spoke on behalf of the San Clemente Chamber of Commerce at the latest Transportation Corridor Agencies' Board Of Director Meeting. After years-long discussion, a favorable solution has been reached for the citizens of South Orange County. Find out what happened here…
