Business
The building that once housed Brea’s largest employer is now standing nearly empty, and city officials are growing increasingly anxious about the lost revenue.
July 24, 1993
Orange County bankers hope to cash in on the nation’s biggest banking merger by gobbling up Bank of America and Security Pacific National Bank customers who consider the new institution to be just too big to service small and mid-size companies.
Aug. 13, 1991
Bank of America bought a 115,000-square-foot office building in Brea Tech Center for $12.5 million.
April 25, 1988
World & Nation
Faced with a development dispute between business interests and historic-preservationists, the City Council has opted for a compromise that could lead to the replacement of Bank of America’s 64-year-old Green Street building with a major new commercial-residential project.
Jan. 16, 1992
California
When the doors are closed and the locks turned on the small Security Pacific branch at Hollywood and Cahuenga boulevards for the final time tonight, a chapter will also close on a little piece of Tinseltown’s history.
April 23, 1993
California Federal Savings & Loan Assn., Los Angeles, is heading a consortium of five California-based financial institutions supplying $300 million in permanent financing for a 47-story office tower under construction in lower Manhattan.
Jan. 27, 1985
Tomales is the little town that can, officials said in announcing Novato National Bank’s plans to open a branch office there and stop the town from being without a bank.
April 11, 1988
Entertainment & Arts
After a decade of dreams, the Latino Museum of History, Art and Culture has put its name on a building in Downtown Los Angeles.
June 24, 1995
Moving quickly to file a slew of charges carrying heavy prison terms, Los Angeles County prosecutors will file 16 felony assault counts today against John Brian Jarvis, arrested after a shooting spree at MCA World Headquarters in Universal City that left seven women wounded.
April 22, 1993
The city’s economy will get worse before it gets better, a major bank economist told San Diego business leaders Wednesday, echoing a rising consensus among experts that the region will see more jobs lost and a continued slide in housing values through at least the first half of 1993.
Oct. 22, 1992