TRI-CITIES
BURBANK
Driving Concern: Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center is launching a critical care ambulance to transfer stroke and cardiac patients from community hospital emergency rooms to the hospital’s specialists with the assistance of an on-board nurse. The critical care transport program is supported by a grant from UniHealth Foundation, a downtown L.A. non-profit focused on improving health care in local communities. The grant helped cover the costs of training the program’s supervisor and the nurses that will ride in the ambulance.
WESTSIDE
BRENTWOOD
M.B.A. Focus: Mount St. Mary’s College, a Catholic liberal arts college in Brentwood, has added a concentration to its master’s of business administration program, which the college launched in 2008. The new concentration, which will be available beginning this fall, will offer students a focus in project management, which provides a foundation in the initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, controlling and closing of projects.
WEST LOS ANGELES
Mobile Move: Rubicon Project, a West L.A. digital advertising services company, has acquired Mobsmith, a San Francisco developer of mobile advertising products. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
SAN FERNANDO VALLEY
VAN NUYS
On the Record: Audiolife, a Van Nuys startup that creates products such as CDs and T-shirts for the music industry, has been acquired by Alliance Entertainment, a Coral Springs, Fla., wholesale distributor of CDs, DVDs, videogames and related products. Audiolife’s executives will remain in Van Nuys but production will move to Shepherdsville, Ky. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
CENTRAL AREA
HOLLYWOOD
Marketing Pickup: Resolve Market Research, a Hollywood-area marketing consultancy with a digital media focus, has been acquired by Bovitz, a brand marketing research firm in Encino. Resolve co-founder Elaine. B. Coleman will join as managing director of Bovitz’s media and emerging technologies practice.
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES
On the Move: Aecom Technology Corp., a downtown L.A. engineering firm, has been awarded a contract worth approximately $42 million by Malaysia’s Land Public Transport Commission and Singapore’s Land Transport Authority for an engineering study of the Malaysia-Singapore Rapid Transit System link. Aecom will provide an architectural and engineering study for the proposed RTS link, which would connect Singapore with Johor Bahru in southern Malaysia.
MID-CITIES
VERNON
Industrial Acquisition: Magellan Group and Principal Financial Group have purchased a Vernon industrial building for $10.8 million from International Paper Co. The 200,000-square-foot building, at 3030 S. Atlantic Blvd., sits on 14.7 acres, including 6.8 acres of undeveloped land where Magellan plans to improvements.
