MID-CITIES
SANTA FE SPRINGS
Retail Complex: Tivoli Capital Inc. has acquired the Santa Fe Springs Promenade for $23 million from F.J. Hanshaw Enterprises Inc. The retail shopping center, at 1142-11570 Telegraph Road, totals 114,629 square feet and was more than 90 percent occupied at the close of escrow.
WESTSIDE
MALIBU
Added Punch: Toys based on characters from this summer’s projected Batman movie blockbuster “Dark Knight Rises” will kick off a new licensing deal between Malibu toy company Jakks Pacific Inc. and the consumer products division of Burbank’s Warner Bros. The deal covers the manufacture, distribution and marketing of novelty and large-scale figures and plush toys based on popular DC Comics superheroes and villains. The line will hit stores in July to coincide with the release of the third film in the trilogy from director Christopher Nolan.
SOUTH BAY
LONG BEACH
Juiced Up: Nekter Juice Bar, a Costa Mesa-based cleanse and blended-juice chain, has opened its third location, at the Long Beach Marketplace retail complex. The new shop is at 6467 Pacific Coast Highway. Nekter’s other location is in Corona Del Mar.
CENTRAL AREA
BALDWIN VILLAGE
Campus Development: The second phase has begun on the $28 million Dorsey High School design-build project, which was handled by the Pasadena office of architect Gkkworks. The phase includes the construction of a two-story, 28,000-square-foot classroom building and 22,000-square-foot gym. The third and final phase will include the modernization of an existing 19,000-square-foot gym facility. The project is scheduled for completion in June 2014.
SAN FERNANDO VALLEY
NORTH HOLLYWOOD
Florida Growth: IPC the Hospitalist Co. Inc., a North Hollywood-based provider of hospitalist services, has announced the acquisition of two Florida practices. IPC purchased Inpatient Clinical Solutions Inc., an acute-care medical practice in Coral Springs, and the Jacksonville hospitalist practice of Lionel J. Gatien. The two pickups are expected to add about 116,000 patient encounters. Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed.
NORTH HILLS
Nice Shot: Imperial Toy LLC, a North Hills-based toymaker, was awarded a Best in Play Toy Fair Award by Parenting Magazine for its new toy gun line, Zooma Splat X Smackshot, at the Toy Industry Association’s New York International Toy Fair, which ran Feb. 12-15. Imperial’s Smackshot features a shark-mouth design and launches sticky ammunition.
TRI-CITIES
PASADENA
New Outpost: Opus Bank, an Irvine-based bank with 39 offices in Southern California and Washington state, is opening a branch in Pasadena. The new office will be located at 2 N. Lake Ave. and is scheduled to open in the second quarter of this year.
