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Mike Stoddard Buena Park, Calif...
Short, who prefers casual jerseys to trench coats, began her undercover career 14 years ago, when she posed as a drug user or sometimes as a prostitute for the narcotics and vice divisions of the Buena Park, Calif., police department. She says her investigators are less expensive than her competitors' because she hires inexperienced young people and trains them herself. Business has been so good that Short is opening a new branch in San Bernardino, Calif., and even has visions of franchising her discount detective agency...
DIED. Walter Knott, 91, entrepreneur who converted a California roadside fruit stand into Knott's Berry Farm, a multimillion-dollar enterprise; in Buena Park, Calif. Knott, who once marketed jellies and jams and expanded into fried-chicken dinners, opened Knott's Berry Farm in 1940. The family-owned operation now includes an amusement park, which draws more than 5 million visitors a year, a number exceeded only by the Disney theme parks in Florida and California...
...Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco. A $350 million effort, in conjunction with Toronto-based real estate giant Olympia & York, to turn a 21-acre former Skid Row into a complex of festival-marketplace facilities, cafes, an amusement park inspired by Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens, and an underground convention center, which is nearing completion...