Current Research on Innovation Parks
By Rob White The community has had a fair amount of public dialogue over the last few…
News Briefs: City Gets Grant for Gateway Project; Meet the New City Council
Davis Receives Grant for Downtown University Gateway Plan The State of California Strategic Growth Council (SGC) has…
Davis in Demand
I wrote last week about a set of articles published a few weeks ago in the Xconomy…
Revisiting Measure O’s Impact on Economic Development
Back in early May, we asked Rob White to weigh in on the impact of the failure…
Nishi Workshop Draws Questions and Discussion of Proposed Development
Last night, the city of Davis hosted the first of two community-based planning meetings to discuss planning…
The Davis Innovation Ecosystem – Are the City’s Efforts Working?
by Rob White In last week’s article, I wrote about the City’s release of the Request for…
Nishi-Gateway Discussion Tonight and Tomorrow at 6 pm
Join Us for Two Interactive Workshops The City of Davis is hosting two community-based planning meetings to…
Will the City Attract Suitors for a Business Park?
At the last council meeting, the council unanimously approved the city putting out an RFEI (Request for…
City Asks for Input and Ideas on Innovation Center Concepts
By Rob White Several decades of study, assessment, deliberation and planning have continuously come to the conclusion…
World Food Center to Sacramento Not a Done Deal Yet
Chancellor Announces Advisory Group, No Decision Made on WFC – UC Davis, less than a week after…
Commentary: Forget Mace 391, We Are Failing Now
Mace 200 Doomed to Become the Next Failed Project if Things Don’t Change – As word has…
Analysis: Davis to Lose World Food Center?
A few weeks ago the buzz starting to leak out was that the World Food Center was…
Capital-to-Capital Advocacy Trip – Wrap-up
by Rob White This was the 44th annual Sacramento Metro Chamber’s Cap-to-Cap Advocacy Trip, where regional business,…
Council Clears Way for Innovation Center RFEI to Move Forward
Rochelle Swanson Forcefully Pushes Council on Economic Development –Rob White was finally allowed to give his full…
Sunday Commentary: Cutting Off Our Noses to Spite Our Faces on Measure O
The Vanguard has been sounding the alarm when few in the city really understood we were in…
Davis City Council Candidates Question 7: Vision for Davis
Editor’s Note: Every week on Friday the Vanguard will send all five of the candidates a question…
Cap to Cap Advocacy Trip – Davis as an Incubator
by Rob White Wednesday was the last day (and one of the busiest) of the Sacramento Metro…
Cap to Cap Advocacy Trip – Innovation Spotlighted
by Rob White Over the last several days of the Sacramento Metro Chamber’s annual Capital-to-Capital (Cap to…
Cap to Cap Advocacy Trip – Davis Examples
by Rob White The teams for the Sacramento Metro Chamber’s annual Capital-to-Capital (Cap to Cap) Advocacy Trip…
Cap to Cap Advocacy Trip – Networks and Partnerships
by Rob White The teams for the Sacramento Metro Chamber’s annual Capital-to-Capital (Cap to Cap) Advocacy Trip…