Steven Rosenfeld

6 days ago | marinij.com | Steven Rosenfeld

Four years ago, the pandemic left downtown Sausalito with 17 vacant storefronts and a handful of business owners worried that city bureaucracy was undermining its recovery. “In the past, Sausalito had a reputation for a town you don’t want to do business in because its permitting process was so kludgy,” said Kass Green, whose family runs a bayfront inn and once spent months getting approval to install one French door. “Now, we know what we need to do.

1 week ago | sanluisobispo.com | Steven Rosenfeld

May 7-Mill Valley has hired an architect and contractor to design and build a 4,000-square-foot public works office building at an estimated cost of $8.3 million. The City Council voted unanimously Monday to approve the contract. The building will be designed by Kappe Architects and built by Alten Construction, which recently renovated Corte Madera Town Hall. "We've been talking about this forever," said Councilmember Urban Carmel after the vote.

1 week ago | marinij.com | Steven Rosenfeld

Mill Valley has hired an architect and contractor to design and build a 4,000-square-foot public works office building at an estimated cost of $8.3 million. The City Council voted unanimously Monday to approve the contract. The building will be designed by Kappe Architects and built by Alten Construction, which recently renovated Corte Madera Town Hall. “We’ve been talking about this forever,” said Councilmember Urban Carmel said after the vote.

1 week ago | marinij.com | Steven Rosenfeld

Sediki Thompson, 29, of Marin City sits at a computer designing C-clamps to fabricate with a nearby 3D printer and install in his 1966 Chevelle. Stan Minasian, 77, of Larkspur stands in front of another printer and removes excess plastic from a fishing buoy he designed. Both were working at the Marin County Free Library’s “makerspace studio” at St. Andrew Presbyterian Church in Marin City. “I just went on the internet and said, who in Marin does 3D printing? And up came the library,” he said.

2 weeks ago | mercurynews.com | Steven Rosenfeld

A tugboat captain involved in an oil spill off the Marin County coast is liable for the government’s $14 million cleanup, a federal judge ruled. The boat operator, Christian Lint, died from other causes after the incident. But his estate and the owners of the involved boats were sued by the U.S. Department of Justice to recover the cleanup costs. Lint lost control of another vessel that ran aground near Dillon Beach in 2021.