Advisory Board: Economic Development Committee
Subject: Update on TeamCalifornia Conference in 2025
Presenter: Alyson Greenlee, Economic Development Manager
Contact: 925-655-2783
Information:
Contra Costa County is hosting the TeamCalifornia Site Selectors' Conference in 2025.
Referral History and Update:
On June 5, 2024, the Ad-Hoc Committee on the Northern Waterfront Economic Development Initiative recommended that the Board of Supervisors receive an update on Contra Costa County hosting the TeamCalifornia Site Selectors' Conference in 2025.
Since 2023, Contra Costa County, along with the cities of Antioch, Brentwood, Oakley, and other cities around the State, has been a member in TeamCalifornia, a non-profit membership-based organization that markets California communities and site location assistance for businesses seeking to locate facilities in California. TeamCalifornia staff attend selected trade shows and industry sponsored events to identify the best opportunities to promote Contra Costa County and other California communities to site selection specialists.
In 2023, economic development staff from the County submitted an expression of interest in the opportunity to host the annual "Meet the Consultants" Forum event of TeamCalifornia, and staff were informed in December that Contra Costa County will be the site of the 2025 conference. Department of Conservation & Development staff are working with the Northern Waterfront cities, the Public Works Department Division of Airports, and TeamCalifornia.
Economic development staff from the County participated in the 2024 "Meet the Consultants" Forum event of TeamCalifornia, in Visalia on August 6-8, 2024.
At the Contra Costa County Economic Development Forum on November 20, 2024, Robin Reimold, Executive Director of TeamCalifornia, announced that Contra Costa County would be the host site of the Meet the Consultants Conference, on August 5-7, 2025.
As the last update that the Board of Supervisors re...
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