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CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
NEW LOCATIONS & EXPANSIONS
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T-Mobile US (NASDAQ: TMUS) and Sprint Corporation (NYSE: S) today announced that, pending the close of their merger, they have selected the Central Valley in California as the area for the third of five new Customer Experience Centers to serve New T-Mobile customers. The facility will create approximately 1,000 local jobs.
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Tejon Ranch Co. (NYSE: TRC) announced that it has agreed to terms on a lease with a company that will relocate its western US distribution operations from the Los Angeles area to the Tejon Ranch Commerce Center (TRCC) in the fourth quarter of this year. The company, which wishes to remain anonymous for the time being due to competitive reasons, will occupy approximately 390,000 square feet of space in a new 580,000-square-foot building TRC is developing in partnership with Majestic Realty Co.
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t turns out there really is in great future in plastics. At least there is now in Modesto. The plastic injection molding company JATCO Incorporated is relocating from the Bay Area to the Central Valley and will bring some 150 jobs with it to the new headquarters. Founded in 1976, the company has been in Union City since 1985. Turlock. Company president Steven Jones said Modesto won out because of the help of the city's economic development team and the county's Opportunity Stanislaus program.
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Valley Children's Hospital officially opens its new Modesto medical center on Pelandale Road on Friday. The Specialty Care Center, a 40,000-square-foot, state-of-theart medical center, is expected to bring more pediatric specialists closer to families who need care. Valley Children's will continue to provide expert care in several service lines, including pediatric cardiology, pediatric neurology, pediatric gastroenterology and pediatric orthopaedics.
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A California computer scientist is set to compete for millennial dollars right here in Visalia. Computer scientist Aamir Farooqui plans to open a 1,800 square-foot, fully-automated convenience store, similar to Amazon Go.Based in Sacramento, Farooqui says his new concept store is the first of its kind in the Central Valley. He hopes to duplicate it elsewhere, he said. An automated convenience store relies on computers and robotics. Amazon calls it "just walk out" shopping.
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Foster Farms on Thursday announced a multimillion-dollar capital investment project to support an expansion and upgrade of the company's poultry processing facility in Livingston. The company that supports 2,032 jobs in Merced County will expand the facility's product lines and add jobs, according to a news release. The announcement comes as the company is possibly in discussions to be sold to meat industry giant Tyson Foods, CNBC reported Tuesday.
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Messer LLC (Messer) announced that it will begin construction on a new Carbon Dioxide (CO2) plant in Keyes, California. The plant will provide 450 tons-per-day of CO2, an essential product for carbonated beverages, food freezing & chilling, and electronics manufacturing. The product is also used by a wide range of industrial companies in northern California and surrounding areas. The new plant is slated for completion in Q4 2019
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Blue Diamond Growers broke ground Tuesday on an expansion of its west Turlock plant to meet the demand for almond milk. The addition will add 25 to 28 jobs to the 150 already at the Washington Road plant, said Travis Hill, start-up manager for the Sacramento-based cooperative. The 52,000-square-foot annex also will employ a yet-to-be-determined number of people making a new product that is still under wraps, said Mark Jansen, president and chief executive officer.
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The new facility has likely created upwards of 400 new jobs, as evidenced by a permit filed with the city. Over the summer, Amazon laid a big, obvious footprint in the city by opening its newly built 855,000-square-foot fulfillment center in the south end of the city, off Central and Orange avenues.
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WORKFORCE training is taking place throughout the California Central Valley, making highly skilled workers immediately more accessible to new employers.
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The San Joaquin Valley Manufacturing Alliance is built on the work of the Regional Jobs Initiative (RJI). The RJI was designed as a 5-year sprint in 2003 to create 30,000 jobs in the Central Valley, create new civic infrastructure, strengthen the workforce and build a dozen industry clusters.
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For several years in Visalia, employers told the Visalia Economic Development Corporation and the Tulare County Workforce Investment Board they had a problem. Their present and future workers needed to understand how to function better in the workplace-what they call "soft skills.".
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Fresno Unified, the fourth-largest school district in California, is working to change the narrative of career tech and the looming worker shortage. The district showcased its efforts last Thursday with an open house displaying $12 million worth of improvements to CTE facilities at Duncan Polytechnical High School.
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It's no secret the number of super commuters - those poor people who trek more than 90 minutes each way to work - is steadily on the rise in California.
Modesto, Stockton and the San Bernardino metro areas were already super commuting hubs 12 years ago. A recent report by Apartment List shows it's still on the rise - and the commuters often make more money than their neighbors.
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A new California organization has been formed to help investors and developers take advantage of federal Opportunity Zones. CalOZ "will promote competitive, equitable and sustainable Opportunity Zone investments in California," according to a release from the organization. "Our state must embrace new strategies to rebuild an upward economy that works for all Californians," said Kunal Merchant, president and Co-Founder of CalOZ. "Opportunity zones offer an important new tool, not only to promote economic mobility and the green economy in areas of our state that need it most, but also to re-evaluate and re-imagine how business, government, and community work together to foster a more competitive, equitable and sustainable economy in California."
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Less than two years after breaking ground on its unprecedented campus expansion, the University of California, Merced, last week celebrated the opening of the first three buildings of the Merced 2020 ProjectOpens a New Window. More than 400 people were on hand for an opening celebration Thursday, including UC Merced Chancellor Dorothy Leland and UC President Janet Napolitano. Leland and Napolitano also met with students Friday, and visited with more students and their families during move-in.
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Bitwise Industries is teaming up with Fres-Yes realty company and expanding to a new location in Downtown Fresno. It will be located at the Old Spaghetti Factory building on Ventura and R Streets. The building will be the third location for Bitwise, which already has South Stadium Van Ness and The Hive. The second story of the new building, called "Bitwise 41," will eventually have a team of 150 FresYes agents working there. Organizers say they hope the new location will inspire other businesses to come to Downtown Fresno.
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HomeArea.com looked at 142 California cities with a population of 60,000 or more, calculating what's called the "median multiple" for each one. The median multiple is the ratio of the median house price by the median gross household income. Top 3 Central Valley Cities include: Visalia, Clovis and Bakersfield.
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Representatives from EDC's throughout the Valley met with more than 20 legislators and top government officials to bring the voice of Central Valley businesses to the Capital. On the list of top priorities for the valley were Workforce Development, Infrastructure Development, Regulatory and Tax Reforms, Opportunity Zone and Tax Incentives. Central Valley priorities were presented in comparison to a list of top site selection factors for business.
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Back in 2010, as the Valley and the rest of the nation were in the midst of the Great Recession, Mike Miller looked at how badly the crisis had hurt new home construction and worried whether business would survive.
"I'm looking into the future, going, 'I'm not sure if we're going to be around in Central California more than another year,'" recalled Miller, vice president of the Central Valley Division of Lennar Homes of California, Inc., which builds new homes from Merced to Bakersfield.
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California's farmers and ranchers had more than $50 billion in cash receipts for their output last year, an increase of almost 6 percent compared to 2016, according to the new California Agricultural Statistics Review for crop year 2017. That is nearly double the next highest state, according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture. The Number 2 state is Iowa, followed by Texas, Nebraska and Minnesota. Seven out of the top ten counties for agricultural output value are in the Central Valley: California's agricultural abundance includes more than 400 commodities
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