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Applied Medical Owns 36% Of All Rancho Santa Margarita Industrial Real Estate Space

Applied Medical Owns 36% Of All Rancho Santa Margarita Industrial Real Estate Space

Applied Medical Owns 36% Of All Rancho Santa Margarita Industrial Real Estate Space

By Arrow Santos and Jim Wynne

Applied Medical is a medical device company specializing in innovative new technology and the advancement of minimally invasive surgery. Applied Medical was founded in 1987 by Said Hilal and had only seven employees at first. Now a business powerhouse and real estate empire, the company employs over 5,000 people across the globe. Headquartered in Rancho Santa Margarita, Applied Medical has purchased dozens of industrial properties across the city over the last few decades. Take a drive around town and you will see their brand-painted industrial buildings all around the business park....…continue reading

Read Our Latest Column: "Vote With Your Brain, But Not If We Don't Agree."

Read Our Latest Column: "Vote With Your Brain, But Not If We Don't Agree."

Fall is in the air, pumpkin-everything is everywhere, we only have to complain about e-bikes before and after school hours now, and Election season is upon us.

Every couple of years, we experience this special time of unity and civil enthusiasm, where everyone easily agrees on the solutions we all intrinsically know are best for the issues we all universally agree are, indeed, issues.

But since we have orbited about 185 million miles since the last election, we put together this super simple and easy-to-follow guide to refresh our collective memories on how we know what we know and why we can know anything at all, resulting in who we should all vote for of course..…continue reading

Critical Business Resources for Coronavirus Crisis (COVID-19) - CALIFORNIA EDITION

Critical Business Resources for Coronavirus Crisis (COVID-19) - CALIFORNIA EDITION

As a small means of hope in these troubling times, we have curated and prepared a list of business resources with potential means of relief for those whose economic enterprises are in danger because of the Coronavirus pandemic (which seems to be an exponentially growing number of people every new day).

Service industry businesses have been obliterated essentially overnight, with the ripple to all businesses not far behind.