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1 month ago | 
bizjournals.com | expandRobin Douglas |Rachel Leibrock
We're introducing the honorees for this year's Inclusivity in Business Awards.
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1 month ago | 
bizjournals.com | Rachel Leibrock
We're introducing the honorees for this year's Inclusivity in Business Awards.
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2 months ago | 
rachelleibrock.substack.com | Rachel Leibrock
It’s spring and the bushes, plants and trees that, for months, appeared bare and forlorn, have started to bloom in abundance. A rainbow of blossoms has emerged in our yard: Bright pink roses, pristine white calla lilies, cheery yellow mums. I love winter and its chilly minimalism but even as I am convinced that nature is trying to murder me by way of its myriad pollen, grasses and other bits of drifting debris, I cannot help but be charmed by the annual promise of spring: Renewal, rebirth, hope.
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Mar 13, 2025 | 
comstocksmag.com | Rachel Leibrock
This story is part of our March 2025 issue. To subscribe, click here. CEO, Trofholz Technologies, and Founder, The Rising Zone Yvonne Pire had already found success several times over in her career when she realized she needed a healthier balance between work and home life. It was 2015 and Pire’s company, Trofholz Technologies, which specializes in information technology and electronic security systems, had grown to earn $23 million in annual revenue.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
bizjournals.com | Rachel Leibrock
The Business Journal is profiling the honorees for the Best Real Estate Projects of the Year Awards. The Kitchen is the honoree in the Restaurant category. In real estate the “location, location, location” cliché typically refers to an elite neighborhood address. For the owners of The Kitchen, the Michelin-star restaurant’s new spot at Broadway and Ninth Street carried a different appeal.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
bizjournals.com | Rachel Leibrock
The Business Journal is profiling the honorees for the Best Real Estate Projects of the Year Awards. Wihne da Puchuma da Kewe (Capay Valley Health & Community Center) is the honoree in the Community Impact - Rural category. As architects drew up plans for Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation’s new health care center in Esparto, the goal was to connect the building’s function to its Capay Valley surroundings.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
bizjournals.com | Rachel Leibrock
The Business Journal is profiling the honorees for the Best Real Estate Projects of the Year Awards. Cornerstone is the honoree in the Affordable Housing category. When Mutual Housing California and Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento joined forces to develop a new living community, they shared a vision that helped them power through logistical difficulties. The result is Cornerstone, an affordable housing community located in the Fruitridge Vista neighborhood.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
bizjournals.com | Rachel Leibrock
The Business Journal is profiling the honorees for the Best Real Estate Projects of the Year Awards. Heredia-Arriaga School is the honoree in the Public Education category. The Natomas Unified School District elementary school, Heredia-Arriaga School, used existing architectural plans as its blueprint, but the completed complex nonetheless stands out with fresh features.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
rachelleibrock.substack.com | Rachel Leibrock
Joan Jonas installation at the Museum of Modern Art. It reminds me of a dark and lonely forest. It’s August and this is the first time I’ve opened Substack to write since we turned the calendar page on 2023. No excuses, it’s just been a pretty busy year. I thought it would be less busy because I’d finished my MFA. I thought this state of less busy would mean I would spend a lot of time working to complete a draft of my book, approximately another 100-plus pages.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
comstocksmag.com | Rachel Leibrock
This story is part of our July 2024 issue. To subscribe, click here. Sometimes Liz Conant jokes that for the cost of what she and her husband, Adam Guernsey, spent on in vitro fertilization treatments, they could have bought a fancy car instead. “A really, really nice car,” she says with a laugh. The point is clear. IVF can be expensive — very expensive.
