Business by LA Times Studios September 2026

The September 2026 issue of Business by LA Times Studios opens with its Exclusive Lists & Visionaries, presenting the annual rankings of the Top General Contractors, Architecture Firms and Commercial Real Estate Brokerage Firms alongside profiles of the region's leading CRE Visionaries. The issue's cover story, "Made Here," examines how the economic math behind manufacturing is being rewritten across Southern California, as supply chain disruptions, geopolitical uncertainty, tariffs and rising overseas costs prompt business leaders to re-evaluate what "low cost" truly means, and reveals how local manufacturing delivers speed to market, quality control, brand integrity and access to a world-class creative talent pool. This edition also features CRE insights from leaders at Axos Commercial Bank, Shawmut Design and Construction and Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck on Downtown L.A.'s adaptive reuse, rate environments and ESG requirements; examines how rapid audience growth and high return on investment have turned women's sports, anchored locally by Angel City FC and the L.A. Sparks, into the fastest-growing investment in sports sponsorship; evaluates California's expanded $750-million annual Film and Television Tax Credit Program and its potential to bring Hollywood production home; goes inside the SoCal aerospace boom, tracing how $7 billion in recent major defense and space awards to local primes are trickling down to regional precision suppliers; and profiles the growing ecosystem of IT, legal, accounting and cybersecurity firms building specialized practices around Orange County's dominant healthcare sector.