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Around SLO

Sales Up 3.5% In SLO City The City of San Luis Obispo has released their latest sale tax report for the 4th quarter of 2012.The report says sales…

June 14, 2013No CommentRead More

SLO Biz Beat: PG&E/ New Winery / Hotel Underway

SLO Biz Beat: PG&E/ New Winery / Hotel Underway

PG&E To Build New Office Building in SLO SLO’s largest employer,utility giant PG&E,plans to build a new 10,600 sf office  building near the San Luis Obispo airport. PG&E…

June 11, 2013No CommentRead More

Central Valley

Valley Organic Poultry Farmer Seeks 110 Acre Hanford Rail Spur

Valley Organic Poultry Farmer Seeks 110 Acre Hanford Rail Spur

Feed Manufacturing Operation Likely Hoping to benefit from discount prices on grain and corn shipped…

June 19, 2013No CommentRead More

Around Tulare County: New Manufacturing Plant / More

Around Tulare County: New Manufacturing Plant / More

Dairy industry: New Manufacturing Plant Slated For Visalia Minnesota-based EXL Laboratories will build a new…

June 14, 2013No CommentRead More

Federal Board: California High-Speed Rail Authority Authorized to Construct Merced-Fresno Line

Federal Board: California High-Speed Rail Authority Authorized to Construct Merced-Fresno Line

The 3 member federal Surface Transportation Board June 13 has issued a decision authorizing the…

June 14, 2013No CommentRead More

Visalia,NPS Apply For $4.25 Mil For Lodgepole Transit Center

Visalia,NPS Apply For $4.25 Mil For Lodgepole Transit Center

The City of Visalia and the National Park Service will apply for $4.25 million in…

June 4, 2013No CommentRead More

Business

Export Orders & Construction Boost Valley

Export Orders & Construction Boost Valley

Jun 5, 2013 ⋅ by Kathleen Schock ⋅ in news ⋅ 1 Comment ⋅ Tags: Valley Economic Indicator Fresno State’s Craig School of Business San Joaquin Valley Business…

June 11, 2013No CommentRead More

This Week’s Biz and Ag News Update: OJ / Milk & Sponges

This Week’s Biz and Ag News Update: OJ / Milk & Sponges

As this year’s Florida crop dwindles orange juice futures have climbed higher Last month USDA reduced the estimate of the size of the Florida orange crop- hard hit…

June 10, 2013No CommentRead More

Tulare Co Biz News / High Speed Rail & Potholes

Tulare Co Biz News / High Speed Rail & Potholes

Unnamed buyer for Sequoia Mall has property in escrow says the broker on the deal John DuBois of Core Commercial based in Sacramento.”With a purchase agreement the buyer…

June 7, 2013No CommentRead More

California Export Trade Dips Again; Current Forecast Not Encouraging For Exporters

California Export Trade Dips Again; Current Forecast Not Encouraging For Exporters

June 4, 2013 - LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – California’s merchandise export trade in April dipped slightly from the level recorded in the same month last year, according to an…

June 5, 2013No CommentRead More

Agriculture

Food Companies Boost Local Economy

Food Companies Boost Local Economy

New tangerine varieties from UC research are hot commodities these days but they are not the only ag product that has…

June 14, 2013No CommentRead More

Friant Contractors Get Second Water Boost

Friant Contractors Get Second Water Boost

Reclamation Announces Update to the 2013 Central Valley Project Water Allocation for Friant Division Contractors FRESNO, Calif. – Due to better…

June 14, 2013No CommentRead More

Kings Oil Patch: Biggest Thing Since Gold Rush?

Kings Oil Patch: Biggest Thing Since Gold Rush?

Valley Economic Group Hears Report June 21 On Monterey…

Tulare Digester Gets County & California Energy Commission Support

Tulare Digester Gets County & California Energy Commission Support

State Awards $5.1 Mil To Energy Project The Tulare…

California & Midstate Take Lead On Renewables / New Wind & Solar Projects In Central California

California & Midstate Take Lead On Renewables / New Wind & Solar Projects In Central California

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) says in a…

Southern California Edison Announces Plans to Retire San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station

Southern California Edison Announces Plans to Retire San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station

ROSEMEAD, Calif. (June 7, 2013) — Southern California Edison…

Travel

Delaware North Wins Kings Canyon Nat’l Park Concession

New York-based Delaware North Parks and Resorts has won a 10 year concession contract to operate overnight accommodations in Kings Canyon National Parks beginning this fall NPS…

March 28, 2013No Comment

Business

Export Orders & Construction Boost Valley

Jun 5, 2013 ⋅ by Kathleen Schock ⋅ in news ⋅ 1 Comment ⋅ Tags: Valley Economic Indicator Fresno State’s Craig School of Business San Joaquin Valley…

June 11, 2013No Comment

Regional

South Valley Population Growth Led By Hispanics -

Tulare County Projected To Be 68% Latino by 2060 New projections by the California Department of Finance say that 2014 will be the year California will become…

February 6, 2013No Comment

Agriculture

Food Companies Boost Local Economy

New tangerine varieties from UC research are hot commodities these days but they are not the only ag product that has gained recent public notice. This month…

June 14, 2013No Comment

Trends

Senate Committee Votes To Move Water Bond

Legislation that would move the $11.14 billion water bond to the November 2014 ballot passed in the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee today on a bipartisan…

July 3, 2012No Comment

Agriculture

Food Companies Boost Local Economy

New tangerine varieties from UC research are hot commodities these days but they are not the only ag product that has gained recent public notice. This month…

June 14, 2013No Comment