Patrick Sisson
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- Sep 28, 2026
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The Quantum Coast: Meet America’s Top New Tech Hub (opens the original)
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Along the coast between Silicon Valley and Southern California, another major industry hub is forming for a new kind of technological innovation. Quantum computing utilizes quantum mechanics to vastly expand on traditional binary computing, solving devilishly complex problems exponentially quicker. And, while the technology is in its early stages, the science behind it is in development in Santa Barbara and neighboring Goleta, which are drawing some of the nation’s top tech companies and employe
Billion-Dollar Blockbusters Won’t Revive L.A.’s Film Industry (opens the original)
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Hollywood, or at least some aspect of it, had a summer. Between massive box office performances from “The Odyssey” (partially shot in Los Angeles), “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” and “Obsession,” the industry appears to have recaptured some of its cultural magnetism and moneymaking ways. Adjusted for inflation, the movie industry’s $4.76 billion summer ticket haul represented a 26 percent jump from the summer of 2025. “ ‘The Odyssey’ is an example of the movie equation working,” said Robert Marich,
In Los Angeles-Area Retail, a Widening Divide (opens the original)
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Los Angeles remains a locale that runs on ambition and the pursuit of opportunity. But a significant bifurcation is taking place. Increasingly, the marketplace for retail real estate has significantly split between those benefiting from buoyant dynamics and tenants whose small business dreams are starting to evaporate. At a time when a long-term retail development shortage has driven up demand for high street, high-income store locations, Los Angeles and surrounding communities have at the same
Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities Distress Is Peaking — Again (opens the original)
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Discussions around distress that have dominated the commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) market have taken a turn for the worse, with data points shifting in the same unfavorable direction for months. The distress rate has steadily trickled up, approaching a peak, with office distress hitting an all-time high of 8.89 percent in July with another maturity wall nearing. Analytics firm Trepp found that, of the $65 billion in CMBS loans set to mature by the end of 2026, $37 billion are hard
KPC Sees a Trophy in Downtown L.A.’s Graffiti Towers (opens the original)
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John Petty, senior partner for KPC Group, had just returned from a site visit at Downtown Los Angeles’ infamous “Graffiti Towers,” the beleaguered mega-development that his firm recently began working to resurrect after it stalled about seven years ago. Like so much of the mixed-use project thus far, cleanup was proving to be tougher than expected. The Chinese-funded project became internationally famous for its tagged exterior. On the 250 balconies of the hollow condo-hotel-retail complex, wher
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