Category Archives: It’s Not Easy
Siskiyou EZ Makes National News
An Enterprise Zone story has just hit the national media via a link on the Drudge Report, “California may sue to block water-bottling plant over global warming impact…“ Nestle has been struggling for years to build a new water bottling plant in the Siskiyou Enterprise Zone, but environmentalists have presented steady opposition against the project. [...]
L.A.’s New Anti-Enterprise Zone
Will limiting the kinds of businesses that can locate in an area encourage economic development? LOS ANGELES (AP) – City officials are putting South Los Angeles on a diet. The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to place a moratorium on new fast food restaurants in an impoverished swath of the city with a proliferation of [...]
L.A. Trash Zone
The Los Angeles Times reports on a new kind of zone that largely corresponds to the city’s Enterprise Zone: In the wake of a Times report that illegal trash dumping is plaguing some of Los Angeles’ poorest neighborhoods, state officials announced Tuesday that they would give the city a $500,000 grant to help crack down [...]
It’s Not Easy: Lynwood
In the category of “it’s not easy to run an Enterprise Zone under these conditions,” the Los Angeles Times reports: Gang investigators with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department have arrested a Lynwood city official on suspicion of felonies, including being an accessory to robbery and possessing a stolen handgun, a department spokesman said. Autra [...]
More From Siskiyou
The new Siskiyou County Enterprise Zone seems to be taking the lead in efforts to fight off challenges to the program arising from the budget crisis. From the Mt. Shasta News: A recent recommendation to cancel Enterprise Zones throughout the state as a budget cutting effort has prompted local officials to take action. “We are [...]
Siskiyou Reaction to LAO
Siskiyou County is one of eight areas View Larger Map that recently received conditional designations for new Enterprise Zones. Based on this article in the Siskiyou Daily News, it sounds like some local officials are not too pleased with the LAO’s budget recommendations: A recommendation from the state’s legislative office has put the board of [...]
Nevada’s New Ad Campaign Targets California Businesses
The Las Vegas Review-Journal describes a significant new advertising campaign being launched by the Nevada Development Authority which targets California businesses by specifically ridiculing the state’s tax burden: The authority last week began unveiling a series of 40 political cartoons it’s placing as advertisements in business journals and daily newspapers across the Golden State. The [...]
Field Poll: State in Bad Economic Times
The Field Poll released Jan. 1 finds that the majority of Californians feel that the State is in economic trouble: California is in bad economic times and it is expected to stay that way for the next twelve months, so say a majority of the state’s voters. More than one-half (52%) describe the state as [...]
It’s Not Easy To Run An Enterprise Zone Under These Conditions – Foreclosures
A pair of articles in the Los Angeles Times highlight the looming problems some Enterprise Zone areas may be facing as the State’s foreclosure woes progress. In Palmdale, one resident sees the entire economic development health of the area tied to mortgages: Another vacant house sits at the end of the block, with an eviction [...]
Sacramento Bee: “State Budget Gap Now $14 Billion”
Some ominous news from Sacramento: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s finance officials are projecting a California budget deficit of roughly $14 billion, significantly larger than the $9.8 billion gap previously forecast by a state budget analyst, according to two sources who spoke to the governor. The growing estimate increases pressure on Schwarzenegger and lawmakers to cut state [...]
What Lodi Looks Like Before An Enterprise Zone
The Lodi News-Sentinel discusses some of the harsh realities of economic development in the San Joaquin Valley. Nearly every morning, Chip Herman hoses off pools of urine and human feces from the side of his auto detailing shop on South Cherokee Lane. No matter how hard he tries, however, the longtime Lodi businessman can’t rinse [...]
Picking on Fresno
The Sacramento Bee’s “Capitol Alert” provided the following television advertisement for Toyota Prius that picks on one of our Enterprise Zones, Fresno. In the commercial, which aims to depict an ideal future, the narrator intones, “Gas stations will become nothing more than low budget tourist stops, like ghost towns – or Fresno.” That jab didn’t [...]
It’s Not Easy To Run An Enterprise Zone Under These Conditions – Lynwood
From the Los Angeles Wave newspaper August 22 edition: LYNWOOD — Hundreds of people turned out Tuesday night for a march from Marco Firebaugh High School to City Hall calling on the City Council to save their homes from the proposed Angeles Fields, a development that could displace about 1,000 families for a super shopping [...]
It’s Not Easy To Run An Enterprise Zone Under These Conditions – Coachella
This won’t help with business attraction: Lucy Jones, of the U.S. Geological Survey says it’s not a question of where but when a big quake will strike the Coachella Valley, sandwiched between the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults.
It’s Not Easy To Run An Enterprise Zone Under These Conditions – Arvin
Via the AP: Lying in a rich agricultural region dotted with vineyards and orange groves, this central California community seems an unlikely place for a dubious distinction: the most polluted air in America. Hemmed in by mountains, Arvin is the final destination for pollutants from cities as far away as San Francisco Bay, and its [...]
