With Washington focused on budget battles and partisan gridlock, cities have emerged as the best source of government innovation. Our residents are busier than ever and more dependent on their smart phones and technology tools to keep them informed of not only what is happening in the world, but what is happening in their local […]
On Tuesday morning, Vice Mayor Anu Natarajan was featured on a “Smart Cities” Panel at the Frost & Sullivan GIL 2013: Silicon Valley Conference (Global Community of Growth, Innovation and Leadership) featuring executives from cities, utilities and suppliers. The conversation focused on what compels a city to make an evolutionary and sometimes radical change to […]
East Bay EDA, and participating cities including Fremont, five federal agencies have invested $2.2 million over three years in order to form the East Bay Biomedical Manufacturing Network. The objective of the Network is to enhance the San Francisco East Bay innovation ecosystem for technology transfer, workforce development, and economic growth in bioscience and medical […]
Dating back to the days when five small towns came together to form Fremont, small businesses had been an integral part of the City fabric. But we recognize that it can be difficult to navigate the seemingly endless maze of bureaucracy that confronts the new business owner. Well, the City has good news for its […]
Not only are the food trucks rolling into downtown Fremont on a regular basis, but an impressive array of brick-and-mortar restaurants will soon call Downtown home as well. The following trendy eateries have signed leases and will be opening their doors in early 2014 to satiate Fremont’s taste buds. Drum roll please … The Counter […]
Thermo Fisher Scientific’s new 200,000 sq.ft. R&D/Manufacturing facility in Warm Springs is underway. Historically, economic development has been synonymous with tempting new businesses to relocate. That’s why it was rather earth-shattering when the Bay Area Council came out with a report last year that concluded that only 2 percent of all new job creation in […]
Business investment thrives in communities that function effectively and are stable both politically and administratively. It used to be a given that cities were financially solvent. Not only were they solvent, they had the best credit ratings and were synonymous with long-term stability. This has all changed as unfunded liabilities have ballooned, and economic development […]
Recently, Fremont’s Mayor Bill Harrison took a look back at the very public demise of solar giant Solyndra, and shared the city’s lessons from that experience. You can view the original article here from PandoDaily, a startup tech website in Silicon Valley. The Mayor begins by examining how Fremont responded to the Solyndra bankruptcy, while […]
“Re-shoring,” “on shoring,” “right shoring” – call it what you want. If you think you’re hearing more about local manufacturing, it’s not your imagination. It is a real phenomenon that more and more companies are keeping their production operations in the United States, or even moving them back from abroad. And Silicon Valley is ground […]