|
vol. 003, nos. 007 |
Feb 18 - Feb 24, 2009 |
Greetings!
Californiareview.com is a free weekly resource for economic development practitioners in and around the San Joaquin Valley and Sacramento Valley regions. This positive resource helps practitioners stay on top of regional economic news and trends.
/s/ Tony Daysog
|
|
Downtown & Neighborhoods
Sacramento Valley and Nearby Areas
Chico takes steps to "take back d'town" (Chico ER)
San Joaquin Valley and Nearby Areas
Turlock discusses downtown future (Turlock Journal) Hanford retailers gather to talk about d'town (Sentinel) Historic d'town Patterson building gets makeover (Irrigator)
|
EconomicDevelopmentNotes
Nominate your city or EDO for an EDA "Excellence" award (EDA)
Tree City USA honors Rocklin (Placer Herald)
Oakley, Brentwood economic directors depart amicably (Press) Profile of San Joaquin Partnership CEO (Stockton Record) Profile of San Joaquin Co. Farm Bureau leader (Stockton Record)
|
Economic Trends, Forecasts
Cities across nation hurt by retail d'turn (USA Today)
Stockton lender sees recovery on horizon (Stockton Record)
Construction down in Chico, more of same in '09 (ER)
Private sector's take on budget agreement (Chico ER)
|
Economic Development Plans
| |
Business Attraction, Retention
Remodelling of Rancho Cordova Target begins (Grapevine) Redding Trader Joes to open soon (Searchlight) Loomis offers small business loans (Loomis News)
Shasta Co. begins EIR for 700,000 sqft project (Searchlight)
Fresno restaurants finding ways to survive (Fresno Bee)
Los Angeles trying to lure retailers, others (LA Times) San Joaquin Valley offering perks, too (Fresno Bee) Elk Grove Wal-Mart limits hours (Citizen)
|
Visitor-Serving Campaigns
|
Commercial\Industrial Projects
Commercial, Industrial Stockton business park almost ready-to-go (Stockton Record)
Residential, mixed-use
|
Corning to study code enforcement (Observer)
Dam removal impacts on Siskiyou Co. analyzed (Daily News)
Don't overlook EITC, says columnist (LA Times)
Favor people, not cars, says Wired Magazine (WIRED)
Kings County tackles neighborhood blight (Hanford Sentinel) A number of towns concerned about Wal-Mart (Stockton Record)
Community "Third Place": Coffee Shops
Internet Infrastructure, Access Not much jobs created by rural broadband, say some (NYT)
State of Cities, Counties
Budget agreement aids Chico, maybe says staff (ER)
Furloughs for Ripon police? (Manteca Bulletin)
Selma sales taxes lower than expected (Enterprise)
Escalon reviews budget, hard choices imminent (Times)
Municipal bonds, insurance, etc.
Agriculture: A Way of Life
Alternative and Traditional Energy
Stimulus includes tax credits for home solar (SF Chronicle)
AsiaWatch: global customers, global competitors China projects 8% GDP growth in 2009 (China Daily)
India's industrial competitiveness rank slips (Times of India)
| |
|
|
About Us Californiareview.com is produced by Tony Daysog, a Senior Associate with an economic development consulting company, called Applied Development Economics. He earned his Master's degree in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley, where he also earned a Bachelor's degree in US History. You can reach him by e-mail at [email protected].
Feel free to pass this resource along to your friends and colleagues: you might also want to encourage them to join this list, as, in some cases, because of a glitch in the e-mail software, forwarded e-mails become visually disorganized. Thank you. |
|