Walt Disney said it best: “If you can dream it, you can do it.” That’s the challenge for this generation — and the ones succeeding it — when it comes creating smart grids out of today’s energy and water infrastructure. We’re much further along in terms of envisioning a modernized electricity grid than we are […]
As a hotbed for electric vehicle technology and home to the most EV Drivers in the Bay Area, Fremont is excited to welcome a new member to its EV ecosystem. Mahindra GenZe is pioneering a sleek new electric two-wheeler and once you learn more about it, we’re pretty sure you’ll want one for your university […]
Happy Birthday to our blog! One year has passed since the launch of ThinkSiliconValley.Com, and this blog celebrates our 105th post! With the launch of our business website, we started posting blogs twice a week to Takes From Silicon Valley East and tweeting daily on Twitter. The blog has been a depository of observations about […]
At the Fremont Chamber of Commerce, we still do things you might expect a Chamber to do. We provide networking and marketing opportunities for our members, we cut ribbons on new businesses, and we regularly get our members involved in regulatory and policy issues that impact the business community. However, the Fremont Chamber does more […]
Last Friday, the City of Fremont celebrated the groundbreaking of the Capitol Avenue Extension Project on the corner of Capitol Avenue and State Street. Thanks to a One Bay Area Grant of $5.8 million awarded to our City by the Alameda County Transportation Commission (ACTC) and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), the City is now […]
For some time you’ve likely been hearing about Warm Springs/South Fremont as a significant regional opportunity for employment-focused, transit-oriented development. (If you haven’t, you should catch up; if you have, then keep reading!) Recently, our close look at the Brookings Institute research on Innovation Districts revealed that Warm Springs clearly fits the bill for an […]
Fremont ranked high in a recent funding opportunity issued by the California Energy Commission, with both the City of Fremont (under the Bay Area Charge Ahead Project) and the Fremont Chamber of Commerce on the proposed notice of award list for the installation of publicly accessible electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure. With only one Level 1, […]
It seems that we are finally seeing a shift in the long-held view that economic development and sustainability goals are mutually exclusive. At WattzOn, we’ve been asking the question: “What if energy savings programs were directly tied to economic development in local communities?” We believe that these programs are an untapped source of economic activity […]
The Urban Land Institute recently convened in Detroit for an in-depth look at the evolving nature of the Public Private Partnership (3PL). This proved to be an interesting time to examine Detroit’s budding renaissance, which is due in large part to its private investors. One such investor is Dan Gilbert, CEO of Quicken Loans, who […]