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CEPCO Monday Report Monday, Nov. 17, 2008
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Advanced Light Technologies' Brian Pierce is Job Creation Committee's featured speaker for Nov. 20 meeting
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This week's rescheduled Job Creation Committee meeting will feature a local entrepreneur who has secured one patent and has others in the works. Brian Pierce of Advanced Light Technologies will present at Uptime Coworking Studio at 7:30 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 20.
Pierce's scientific research and development company, which has an office downtown, has started Applied Photo Mechanics in an effort to reduce the use of pesticides in agr iculture. It currently has projects working with Chico State, UC Davis and Rutgers in New Jersey and does fascinating work.
RSVPs are requested so that there is enough seating at Uptime, and those can be done by sending an email to Bob Linscheid.
The address is 101 Salem St., Suite 240, and you can take a look at Uptime's new Web site by clicking here.
Call 893-8828 if you want more information on Uptime.
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Building at 6th & Main has a new name: The Morgan Stanley Building
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The bottom floor of 555 Main St. will have a new tenant, and that company will also have the building named after it.
It was announced Friday that Morgan Stanley, the global financial giant, agreed to a lease and will move its offices to the building that bears its name in an exclusive naming right.
"This shows companies are still moving forward," said The Group's Mike
Donnelly, who represented the landlord in the lease negotiations. "Despite these tough economic times, this is
a positive sign that stalwart companies like Morgan Stanley are confident about
the future."
The lease
was also handled by Property Manager John Miller of RSC
Associates and Attorney Timothy Ferris of Leverenz & Ferris Law Firm. Sally Shelton of the Group Real Estate
represented Morgan Stanley.
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Town and Gown Task Force is ready to work on connecting City and University
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The mission of CEPCO's Town and Gown Task Force is to advocate public
policies that will create partnerships to foster the formation and
growth to train the emerging workforce to meet the needs of existing
and emerging industries in the Chico region.
There are four initiatives that the task force will tackle and it all will commence with a meeting on Jan. 22, 2009 at 555 Main St., Suite 300 at 7:30 a.m. But CEPCO would love to get your ideas and feedback before then. If you have any ideas, concerns, questions or comments, forward them along to us with an email to Leland.
Steve Gonsalves of Nichols, Melburg and Rossetto will be the chair of the task force. Gonsalves is a former CEPCO Chairman. Frank Marinello is the current Chairman of the Board.
The CEPCO home site has more information on this new task force, and you can find that info by simply clicking here.
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Jan. 15 Job Creation Committee meeting canceled due to Economic Conference
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The Jan. 15 meeting is canceled so that members may be free to go to the ninth-annual Tri County Economic Forecast Conference, which takes place at the BMU Auditorium from 8 a.m. to noon.
Check upcoming Monday Reports for more information on the Economic Forecast Conference. For now, you can visit the Center for Economic Development at Chico State by clicking here.
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Enterprise-Record article features DigitalPath and CEO Jim Higgins
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DigitalPath, a Chico-based broadband company, has received assistance from Altos Ventures in an effort to expand business to more rural areas and eventually throughout California. CEO Jim Higgins said it could help DigitalPath possibly double its business. To read the article, click here. |
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CEPCO Job Creation Committee and City Technology Group have new blogs |
 In order to keep committee members abreast of the activity of the Job Creation Committee and Technology Group, we have developed a blog that will communicate the agendas and action notes from meetings. There is also an opportunity for members to comment on the topics of the agenda. Bob Linscheid (left) is the verbal artist of both blogs but he's always looking to hear from people in the community who are interested in new ideas.
Please feel free to provide input on the blogs via comment or by sending emails to Bob at bob@wemanage.org.
To visit the Tech Group blog, click here.
To visit the Job Creation blog, click here.
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CEPCO finds talent at CSUC job fair and has stacks of resumes you can review
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 Maybe it was the banner that attracted them. Whatever it was, it brought a slew of Chico State students to our table, all looking for jobs and internships.
CEPCO collected resumes and has a large stack in the office from the three job fairs in recent months. If you would like to review some of the resumes we collected, contact Leland by clicking here.
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Retail property has a new Web site devoted to it
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Mike Donnelly and The Group Real Estate have come up with a comprehensive new Web site that not only includes available properties, but also information about the local business climate and industry issues.
Take a look for yourself by clicking here.
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Local success stories can be found on Tri-County EDC's site, plus business tips
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Nine businesses from the tri-county area expanded with the help of Tri-County Economic Development Corp. and their stories are online for all to see. Click here to check that out.
Tri-County EDC has 150 tools that can hopefully make this rough stretch easier on proprietors as well, and that site can be found by clicking here.
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Come Home to Chico |
 Did you or do you know of anyone who has returned to Chico after graduating CSU, Chico and leaving the area? Did you or do you know of anyone who has come to Chico based on someone's positive description of the area?
CEPCO would like to know about you and what brought you "home to Chico." The Come Home to Chico Program is gathering information for our newly launched web site, which you can find by clicking here.
If you or someone you know has come home to Chico, please won't you take a moment to fill out and return the testimonial form? We'd love to include a picture of you in your profile too!
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This week's featured property |
 This week's featured property features a drive-thru restaurant in a Class A location in the Skypark Plaza shopping center, located at the corner of Skyway and Notre Dame Blvd. The building is right next to the entrance.
For more information on this property, you can call Mike Donnelly at The Group Real Estate at 530-828-0011. And if you want more information on all sorts of properties, take a look at chicoretail.com by clicking here.
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CEPCO gives thanks for renewals
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CEPCO would like to thank the following organizations for renewing their memberships: Robertson & Dominick, Inc. (Civil Engineering) Web site |
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Member to member specials |
If you would like to offer a member special here, please contact Leland Gordon at lee@wemanage.org |
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Committee meetings schedule |
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We have a lot going on here at CEPCO, as you can see below. Contact us at 895-1202 if you have any questions about upcoming meeting as well as their times and locations.
Meeting Dates, Times and Locations:
CEPCO Job Creation Committee
Thursday, Nov. 20 7:30 a.m. Uptime, 101 Salem St., Suite 240
Thursday, Dec. 4 7:30 a.m. TBA
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Please contact Leland Gordon at lee@wemanage.org if you have any questions or suggestions about the Monday Report.
Sincerely,
Leland Gordon, CEPCO | |
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Come Home to Chico wants your pics on there too! Of course we'd ask for a testimonial as well. All we want to hear is why you came home to Chico. Why is it a great place to live? Why is it a great place to work?