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A Denver-based developer unveiled plans for a new 157-unit rental townhome project in Santa Clarita on Thursday.
Archstone, a leading apartment investment and operations company, announced that it has begun construction in a joint venture with a division of The Resmark Companies, a full-service real-estate investment adviser.

The company held a groundbreaking ceremony on its 12.49-acre site located east of Highway 14 on Via Princessa and Lost Canyon Road. Archstone expects the first units to be ready by the spring 2013.

Free business counseling services by SCORE, Service Corps of Retired Executives, are now available at the SCV Chamber of Commerce on the second and fourth Thursdays of every month, starting at 10 a.m.

Founded more than 40 years ago, SCORE offers resources and expertise to business owners of existing and start-up businesses on a confidential basis. Individual counseling sessions are available.

The Governing Board of the William S. Hart Union High School District recently honored the VIA Foundation for its work conducting the Connecting to Success program in the fall of 2011.

Diana Meyer, VIA chairwoman of the VIA board and president of Meyer Marketing Intelligence was on hand along with Randy Moberg, chairman of the VIA Foundation and chief operating officer of LBW Insurance and Kathy Norris, VIA CEO/president to receive the award.

It’s the ‘triple trifecta,’ said Nick Frank of his family-run business.

Founder of Santa Clarita-based Nicholas Aire Systems, Frank has been in the air conditioning business for more than three decades and runs the business made up of himself, his wife, Donna, his son, Jeff, and a handful of employees from a business office at their family home.

The Signal, being essentially a local paper, sometimes doesn’t cover all of the breaking national news.

Being an intrepid columnist for The Signal (the newspaper hasn’t quite recognized that yet, but it will after this), I wanted to get the scoop on legislation from Washington being signed into law today.

With spring comes the season of golf and the SCV Chamber’s highly anticipated 28th annual Oak Tree Classic. This year the event will be held on Monday, April 23 at TPC Valencia, and we are honored to have Chiquita Canyon as our Title Sponsor once again.

This annual tournament is a SCV tradition that boasts participation of more than 100 golfers and is a great place to connect and do business with top level business people here in the SCV. Sponsorships and foursomes are available. Please contact the chamber at (661) 702-6977 or email info@scvchamber.com.

Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich will address SCV business and community leaders again at the third annual State of the County Luncheon on May 2.

Along with his goals and predictions for the coming year, Mayor Antonovich will discuss the latest on the state’s budget crisis and how it affects the county, public safety, parks and libraries and other vital municipal services.

The Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce the nominees for our 2012 Installation and Awards banquet. This year we will be returning to the Valencia Hyatt on Jan. 20, 2012 for our celebration and we have made some significant changes to the evening.

VIA’s 2012 Business2Business committee will announce an opportunity exclusively for businesses that commit as industry show sponsors within the next few weeks. Earvin “Magic” Johnson, keynote speaker for the March 1 event, has donated a Lakers jersey and signed basketball to the organization. The committee will host an exclusive drawing for the items from the pool of event sponsors at the next VIA business luncheon on Jan. 17 at the Valencia Country Club.

The Egg Plantation in Old Town Newhall has been recognized for outstanding environmental business practices by the California Department of Resources, Recycling and Recovery.

The Santa Clarita restaurant was one of the winners of the Waste Reduction Awards Program for its dedication to environmental sustainability.

Winners receive WRAP certificates and window decals alerting customers to the business’ environmentally friendly practices.

There are people who like to push the bounds of proper civil behavior, and then there are those with chutzpah.

What is chutzpah? Wikipedia defines it as someone who has overstepped the boundaries of accepted behavior with no shame.

Whatever you call it, Greg Barnett certainly has it in spades.

You see, Barnett sued State Farm because it refused to pay his theft claim. When he lost in trial court, he appealed the imposition of such injustice.