Category Archives: Not Enough
More Businesses Leave California
The Business Location Coach reports on three new corporate headquarters leaving California and that his tally so far for 2010 is already double what happened in 2009:
In the last two days California has lost three company headquarters – Globalstar, Inc. will depart Milpitas for Louisiana, eEye of Irvine will move to Arizona, and TriZetto [...]
NUMMI Epilogue
Here is a selection of links about the closure of the last automobile manufacturer in California. Efforts to make Fremont an Enterprise Zone were not enough to save the plant.
San Francisco Chronicle: “Nummi’s last words — and pictures from the inside”
USA Today: “Final car rolls off line at landmark Calif. plant”
NPR: “End Of The [...]
100 Cases of Businesses Leaving California
A colleague brought to my attention “The Business Relocation Coach” blog which claims as its mission, “to help businesses relocate and expand facilities in highly beneficial ways. This blog is maintained by JV Executive Consulting, inc., which helps design the smoothest relocation to the most desirable location that meets business goals. An experienced team serves [...]
Northrop Grumman Corp. Leaving Los Angeles
From The Wall Street Journal:
Northrop Grumman Corp. said Monday it plans to move its headquarters to the Washington, D.C., area from Los Angeles, marking the departure of the last major aerospace firm from the industry’s birthplace in Southern California.
The shift will put Northrop’s top executives near its biggest U.S. military and intelligence customers and the [...]
The Enterprise Zones Need Water
This past Friday, radio host Hugh Hewitt did his broadcast from Fresno and spent his entire show highlighting the man-made water crisis in the Central Valley. Some parts of the Valley have unemployment rates of 40%. Of course, the Central Valley is home to 11 of California’s 42 Enterprise Zones. Since the federal government shut [...]
Toyota Board Votes to Close NUMMI
According to the San Jose Mercury News, Toyota has made a decision to close NUMMI:
Toyota Motor Corp. plans to end production in March 2010 at a California joint venture where it has built vehicles with General Motors, the company said Thursday.
The decision would mean the shutdown of the sole auto assembly plant on the West [...]
Will They Buy It?
I like the ad, but will they buy it?
Here’s the back story from Capitol Alert.
And here’s one of Nevada’s ads for comparison:
Rally For NUMMI
Senator Corbet’s bill SB 483 has been amended to simply direct HCD to create a new Enterprise Zone, in addition to the existing 42, if the City of Fremont applies.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports on a rally held with the intention of keeping the plant open:
Several hundred auto workers rallied near New United Motor Manufacturing [...]
NUMMI and Bayer Updates
Things are not looking too good for NUMMI at the moment. Efforts are continuing to create a new Enterprise Zone as part of a package to save the plant. The Lt. Governor was quoted as saying:
Lt. Gov. John Garamendi said today that, “The fight to keep the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. plant in Fremont [...]
NUMMI: Too Big to Fail?
Lt. Gov. John Garamendi speaking today at a meeting of the California Commission for Economic Development, is supporting the State’s efforts to make the NUMMI plant in Fremont an Enterprise Zone, but is also calling on the federal government to contribute as well:
Lt. Gov. John Garamendi says that he thinks federal stimulus money should be [...]
More on NUMMI
Here is a follow up story in the Contra Costa Times discussing the sense of urgency surging through the legislature to save the NUMMI auto plant:
With as many as 20,000 jobs — as well as the health of a number of local economies across the state — on the line, Democratic lawmakers are saying the [...]
Can the Enterprise Zone Save Toyota?
The Los Angeles Times reports on the desperation in the Legislature to try and save an auto manufacturing factory in Fremont, CA. Perhaps even by using the Enterprise Zone program:
State legislators are scrambling to save the last remaining car plant in California.
The Bay Area factory, which makes Toyota Corollas, Toyota Tundras and Pontiac Vibes, would [...]
Texas v California
Dan Walters points to a very interesting article in the Economist comparing Texas with California. He chose his favorite paragraphs for Capitol Alert, but this was the key paragraph from my perspective:
No state has quite so many overlapping systems of accountability or such a gerrymandered legislature. Ballot initiatives, the crack cocaine of democracy, have left [...]
Driving Them Away
Rick Newcombe, president of Creators Syndicate, writes in the Wall Street Journal about their decision to leave Los Angeles:
Why We’ll Leave L.A. The business climate is worse than the air quality.
If New Yorkers fantasize that doing business here in Los Angeles would be less of a headache, forget about it. This city is fast becoming [...]
Fortune 500 Company Will Leave CA for CO Tax Breaks
From the Denver Post:
A new state law was critical in the decision by the country’s largest kidney-dialysis provider to move its corporate headquarters to Colorado.
Currently based in El Segundo, Calif., DaVita Inc. is No. 433 on the Fortune 500 with nearly $6 billion in annual revenue and more than 1,400 dialysis clinics in 43 states.
Incentives [...]
