Wednesday, June 3, 2026 | 3:37 am
Pasadena landed two major corporate openings in 48 hours late last week — a new General Motors design campus on Thursday and the first U.S. store from South Korea’s leading beauty retailer on Friday — and city officials cast the pairing as proof of a deliberat... More »
Tuesday, June 2, 2026 | 1:15 pm
The engineer who designed the batteries that carried astronauts into orbit now works from a suite on South Lake Avenue — and his next challenge has nothing to do with space. Porter Harris, founder and managing partner of Pasadena-based Aeonix Studio, has been ... More »
Tuesday, June 2, 2026 | 6:46 am
East West Bank now has a line into every Coachella ticket sold. The Pasadena-headquartered financial institution with total assets of $82.9 billion as of March 31, has been named the first official business banking partner for AXS in North America, the compani... More »
Monday, June 1, 2026 | 6:06 am
The Pasadena Chamber of Commerce and Civic Association ‘s board of directors voted to “strongly oppose” Measure ER, the proposed Los Angeles County half-cent sales tax increase, which would generate an estimated $1 billion a year to fund hospitals and clinics ... More »
Friday, May 29, 2026 | 6:31 am
. The Pasadena Chamber of Commerce and Civic Association will install Bill Ukropina of Coldwell Banker Commercial as its new board chair at the organization’s annual Inaugural Gala on Friday, June 26, 2026, at the Langham Huntington Hotel. Ukropina, who has ov... More »
Thursday, May 28, 2026 | 6:36 am
The Southern California Reproductive Center (SCRC), which operates a clinic in Pasadena, has joined the Nucleus IVF+ Network, bringing advanced genetic testing to local patients amid rising demand for fertility services. Co-founded by Mark Surrey and Hal C. D... More »
Wednesday, May 27, 2026 | 6:34 am
Two leaders of a Pasadena expert witness firm have both been nominated for the Los Angeles Business Journal‘s 2026 Women’s Leadership Awards, the company announced Monday. Mercy Tolentino Steenwyk, who founded ForensisGroup in 1991, was nominated as a Champion... More »
Wednesday, May 27, 2026 | 6:31 am
The storefronts that survived the Eaton Fire are still standing. The customers, in many cases, are not back yet. A new county program announced Tuesday aims to help change that, offering Altadena small businesses free, individualized marketing support from bui... More »
Tuesday, May 26, 2026 | 5:23 am
The company that put Korean skincare in 1,380 stores across South Korea is betting its American future on a single storefront between an Apple Store and a Crate & Barrel on Colorado Boulevard. CJ Olive Young, the dominant beauty retailer in South Korea, opens ... More »
Friday, May 22, 2026 | 6:29 am
Homeowners in wildfire-prone parts of California insured through the state’s FAIR Plan could soon face steep increases in insurance premiums. The FAIR Plan — formally known as the California Fair Access to Insurance Requirements Plan — serves as the insurer of... More »
Thursday, May 21, 2026 | 6:02 am
Pasadena-ExchangeRight has closed its sixth Essential Income DST offering in roughly a year, a $42.46 million portfolio of net-leased properties that sold out to investors. The offering, called Essential Income 6 DST, comprises five retail and healthcare prope... More »
Thursday, May 21, 2026 | 5:44 am
After major browser makers, led by Google’s Chrome, restricted the privacy extensions that millions of web users had installed to block online trackers, popular tools were removed from Chrome’s extension store or had their capabilities reduced. A Pasadena comp... More »