ANTELOPE VALLEY ECONOMIC PLAN TO BE UPDATED : BUSINESS, GOVERNMENT LEADERS TO JOIN EFFORT.Byline: Jim Skeen Do you mean:
Saying the competition to attract job-generating companies is greater than ever, business and government leaders will gather Monday to begin revamping the Antelope antelope, name applied to a large number of hoofed, ruminant mammals of the cattle family (Bovidae), which also includes the sheep and goats. The North American pronghorn is sometimes called an antelope, but belongs to a separate, related family (Antilocapridae). Valley's economic game plan. Dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. ``Strategic Vision,'' the effort will involve updating a 3-year-old economic plan prepared by Chicago-based consultant PHH PHH Provinciale Handelsschool Hasselt (school) PHH Pasukan Anti Huru-Hara (Anti Riot Task Force) PHH Phillips Head (screw) PHH Planar Halogenated Hydrocarbon Fantus. The effort also will include updating labor base studies and industrial space vacancy VACANCY. A place which is empty. The term is principally applied to cases where an office is not filled. 2. By the constitution of the United States, the president has the power to fill up vacancies that may happen during the recess of the senate. reports. The campaign is sponsored by the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Regional Partnership, whose members represent Lancaster and Palmdale city government, county government, private industry and education. Vern Lawson Jr., executive director of the Lancaster Economic Development Corp., is managing the effort for the partnership. A new economic plan is needed now, Lawson said, because of the increased competition in attracting employers. In the past, few regions had business-attraction plans and incentives. Now they are common, Lawson said. ``In the last three years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time recession has pushed regions to become more competitive,'' Lawson said. Since the PHH Fantus report was released, the Antelope Valley has acquired new attractions, including status as a state enterprise zone, where businesses get state tax incentives, and a new air quality management district, splitting the Antelope Valley away from the South Coast Air Quality Management District The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), formed in 1976, is the air pollution agency responsible mainly for regulating stationary sources of air pollution for most of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside County, and all of Orange county. and giving local government more control over rules. A new economic plan will incorporate a strategy to market the new attractions, Lawson said. The effort is being financed by a $150,000 grant from the Defense Department's Office of Economic Adjustment and a $45,000 grant from the state Trade and Commerce Agency. The grants were awarded under efforts to help communities such as the Antelope Valley try to offset cuts in defense-industry employment. About 100 business people are expected to attend the gathering Monday in Palmdale to launch the effort. The gathering is intended to educate the business community about the studies and to solicit opinions as to what the economy strategy should cover. The PHH Fantus study recommended the Antelope Valley focus on eight industries: commercial aerospace manufacturing, maintenance and modification; electronics; miscellaneous plastic products; fabricated fab·ri·cate tr.v. fab·ri·cat·ed, fab·ri·cat·ing, fab·ri·cates 1. To make; create. 2. To construct by combining or assembling diverse, typically standardized parts: metal products; industrial machinery; commercial printing; administrative office operations; and film productions. The PHH Fantus study led to the formation of the Antelope Valley Regional Partnership board. The board coordinated efforts to get state enterprise zone status, to separate from the South Coast Air Quality Management District and to create a film liaison office in Lancaster. The board also has joined the Defense Facilities Marketing Association, which plans a $300,000 marketing campaign to attract businesses to closed or partially unused military bases. The marketing campaign is expected to generate 500 leads, Lawson said. |
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