We’re taking San Diego’s story into our own hands and launching San Diego: Life. Changing.: a campaign celebrating the smart and innovative companies and people that call San Diego home. Before we go live at the Padres Game on September 19, we wanted to show the San Diego community what we’ve been up to. Cue: […]
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Guide to the Good Life in SD
Discover San Diego: Life. Changing. with this pocket guide full of interesting SD facts and a map illustration of the coolest companies in town! This is the first official ‘tool’ – debuted last night – from EDC’s San Diego: Life. Changing. Campaign.
New cohort of MetroConnect companies unveiled
Today, San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and World Trade Center San Diego (WTC San Diego), JPMorgan Chase & Co. and business and civic leaders unveiled the 15 companies selected to participate in the MetroConnect program, a comprehensive export assistance program to help local companies accelerate their global growth. From language translation software platform Urban Translations, […]
San Diego Economic Pulse: July 2017
Each month the California Employment Development Department (EDD) releases industry data for the prior month. This edition of San Diego’s Economic Pulse covers June 2017 data, including unemployment, new business establishments, job postings and who’s hiring in the region. Highlights include: The unemployment rate increased 0.7 percentage points to 4.3 percent in June. Unemployment increased […]
San Diego selected for Brookings’ inclusive learning lab
In early 2017, the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program selected San Diego, along with Indianapolis and Nashville, to participate in a six-month intensive learning lab focused on inclusive economic development. During the lab, EDC worked alongside the City of San Diego, the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation, and UC San Diego extension, to develop a […]
San Marcos Regional Profile
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Community Profile: City of San Marcos
Summary With a population of 93,300, San Marcos has the smallest yet fastest-growing population along the 78 Corridor. The city’s population has grown by more than 11 percent since 2010, outpacing the other four cities along the 78 Corridor by at least four percent and growing 1.8 times faster than the San Diego region. READ […]
SD in Vancouver: Welcome to North America’s Greenest cities
A year ago, members of the Global Competitiveness Council – the voice of the global business community in San Diego – made a request to Mayor Faulconer: to travel internationally with World Trade Center San Diego. And he said yes. So we decided to start our global engagement by expanding our North American relationships and […]
Local companies awarded $3M in tax credits in recent Cal Competes round
The California Competes Tax Credit is an income tax credit program available to businesses expanding or relocating to California. Created in 2014 by the California legislature and overseen by Governor Jerry Brown’s Office of Business and Economic Development, the California Competes Tax Credit is divided into three separate rounds for each fiscal year. In FY […]
Delegations leverage web tool during BIO, connect with local companies
The 2017 BIO International Convention, the world’s leading biotechnology conference, came to San Diego in June and brought with it more than 16,100 attendees from 74 countries. While here, many of these delegations – comprised of venture capitalists, foreign dignitaries, private companies and others – send hundreds of meeting and/or tour requests to local businesses […]