City Receives Three Proposals in RFEI Process: Part 1 Mace 200
The city’s RFEI (Request for Expressions of Interest) process yielded three proposals in documents released by the…
UCD Moves Further on Third Campus, Will WFC Follow?
Late last week, Chancellor Linda Katehi announced that Steve Currall, Dean of the Graduate School of Management…
Another Giant Council Mistake?
by Jeff Boone Most of us agree that previous City Councils made big mistakes over-expanding and over-compensating…
Investments and Missed Opportunities
by Rob White This week was an interesting dichotomy of news. On one hand, three Davis companies…
Pope to Leave Davis Chamber on September 1 (Updated)
The Vanguard has received a press release that Kemble Pope, CEO of the Davis Chamber of Commerce…
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…
