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DISC Returns to Council to Plan Commission Hearing Roll Outs

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 04, 2021
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DISC Returns to Council to Plan Commission Hearing Roll Outs

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Nine months after a narrow defeat at the polls last No ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Nine months after a narrow defeat at the polls last November, DISC (Davis Innovation Sustainability Campus) comes back to the council as staff looks ...

September 04, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Inventopia Officially Host the Public in an Open House

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 27, 2021
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Inventopia Officially Host the Public in an Open House

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – When he went before Council back in June, Tim Keller i ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – When he went before Council back in June, Tim Keller invited them to tour the facility. On Thursday, Keller and Inventopia hosted the community in a ...

August 27, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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My View: New DISC Project Should Have a Good Chance For Voter Approval

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 10, 2021
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My View: New DISC Project Should Have a Good Chance For Voter Approval

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – Lost in a lot of other things last November is the fact that while DISC ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – Lost in a lot of other things last November is the fact that while DISC failed the vote of the public, it was a pretty narrow margin – 52-48, or just 1300 votes. Giv ...

July 10, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Vacaville Lands a Major Bay Area Biotech Company

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 09, 2021
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Vacaville Lands a Major Bay Area Biotech Company

By David M. Greenwald Vacaville, CA – In October the Vanguard reported that Vacaville was adding a 300-ac ...

By David M. Greenwald Vacaville, CA – In October the Vanguard reported that Vacaville was adding a 300-acre, world class bio manufacturing center that could produce 10,000 jobs. Now the Vanguard has ...

July 09, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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BREAKING NEWS: DISC Back with Revised, Smaller Project

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 08, 2021
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BREAKING NEWS: DISC Back with Revised, Smaller Project

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - Eight months after the first DISC project failed at the polls, the part ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - Eight months after the first DISC project failed at the polls, the partners of Ramco and Buzz Oates are back with a second project - this one considerably smaller at ...

July 08, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Inventopia Has Already Filled Out Its Space, Tim Keller Reports in a Council Check-In

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 07, 2021
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Inventopia Has Already Filled Out Its Space, Tim Keller Reports in a Council Check-In

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - Last November the city entered into a loan agreement with Inventopia wi ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - Last November the city entered into a loan agreement with Inventopia with a provision of $100,000 to expand their operation in order to provide lower cost of spaces f ...

July 07, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: While Davis Fights to Put Housing on Campus, UC Davis Invests in Sacramento Campus

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 05, 2021
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Monday Morning Thoughts: While Davis Fights to Put Housing on Campus, UC Davis Invests in Sacramento Campus

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - In a release that came out last week, the UC Davis Chancellor had a not ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - In a release that came out last week, the UC Davis Chancellor had a not-so-subtle message. The release announced the breaking of ground on a rehab hospital. Natural ...

July 05, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Five Steps I Would Like to See to Push for Economic Development

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 28, 2021
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Five Steps I Would Like to See to Push for Economic Development

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – The good news is that the city is not plunging into the deep deficits t ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – The good news is that the city is not plunging into the deep deficits that were feared when the economy shut down a year ago. While that alleviates the immediate nee ...

June 28, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: How to Achieve Balance with Growth

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 11, 2021
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Commentary: How to Achieve Balance with Growth

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - One of the points I have been trying to make over at least the last mon ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - One of the points I have been trying to make over at least the last month is that important voices from our community have been absent the discussions on housing and ...

June 11, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Davis Needs a New Perspective On Growth

Posted by Tim Keller
|Date: June 05, 2021
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Guest Commentary: Davis Needs a New Perspective On Growth

by Tim Keller In Davis, we seem to be always having the same debate: “Should we approve this one project? ...

by Tim Keller In Davis, we seem to be always having the same debate: “Should we approve this one project? - Or should we not grow at all? “ This is a rut that we are stuck in, and we need to break fre ...

June 05, 2021
| by Tim Keller

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Yocha Dehe Lab Opens in Woodland – Already Half Full

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 02, 2021
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Yocha Dehe Lab Opens in Woodland – Already Half Full

By David M. Greenwald Woodland, CA - AgStart this past week launched their operations on their shared wet ...

By David M. Greenwald Woodland, CA - AgStart this past week launched their operations on their shared wet lab (Yocha Dehe Lab), food lab (Raley’s Food Lab) and co-working space—the only facility of it ...

June 02, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Aggie Square Contributes $50 Million to Affordable Housing in Sacramento

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 26, 2021
| (19) Comments

Commentary: Aggie Square Contributes $50 Million to Affordable Housing in Sacramento

By David M. Greenwald Yesterday marked a huge announcement as Chancellor Gary May and Mayor Darrell Stein ...

By David M. Greenwald Yesterday marked a huge announcement as Chancellor Gary May and Mayor Darrell Steinberg announced a “groundbreaking Community Benefits Partnership Agreement (CBPA) to ensure the ...

March 26, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Retail Vacancies – Ominous Sign or Just an Artifact of the Pandemic?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 24, 2021
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Commentary: Retail Vacancies – Ominous Sign or Just an Artifact of the Pandemic?

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – Someone shared with me a CoStar Analytics report that looked at Davis’ ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – Someone shared with me a CoStar Analytics report that looked at Davis’ retail vacancy rate compared to the Sacramento average. It shows the retail vacancy rate, whic ...

March 24, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Aggie Square Legal Battle Reminds Us It Is Not Just Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 22, 2021
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Aggie Square Legal Battle Reminds Us It Is Not Just Davis

By David M. Greenwald UC Davis won’t say it publicly, but then again they don’t have to. They went to Sa ...

By David M. Greenwald UC Davis won’t say it publicly, but then again they don’t have to. They went to Sacramento to build Aggie Square in large part because they knew how difficult it would be to do ...

February 22, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Lab Space Fills Quickly in Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 05, 2021
| (11) Comments

Commentary: Lab Space Fills Quickly in Davis

By David M. Greenwald The pandemic represents a potentially massive disruptive event. At least in the sh ...

By David M. Greenwald The pandemic represents a potentially massive disruptive event. At least in the short-term it is leading to companies shrinking their footprint and office space. This was exemp ...

February 05, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Raley’s Announced As Sponsor of the AgStart Startup Incubator

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: February 04, 2021
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Raley’s Announced As Sponsor of the AgStart Startup Incubator

Special To the Vanguard Raley’s, a family-owned regional grocery chain, announced on Wednesday that they ...

Special To the Vanguard Raley’s, a family-owned regional grocery chain, announced on Wednesday that they will be sponsoring the Raley’s Food Lab at at The Lab@AgStart incubator in Woodland. “The Raley ...

February 04, 2021
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Sunday Commentary: Yeah, Yeah, Wash, Wash, Repeat, but the Problem Remains

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 03, 2021
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Sunday Commentary: Yeah, Yeah, Wash, Wash, Repeat, but the Problem Remains

By David M. Greenwald As we move into 2021, what are we going to be talking about in Davis? Short term, ...

By David M. Greenwald As we move into 2021, what are we going to be talking about in Davis? Short term, it is going to be COVID and policing. But long term the issues remain land use issues, housing ...

January 03, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: How Do People Plan to Finance Their Ideal Community?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 31, 2020
| (69) Comments

Commentary: How Do People Plan to Finance Their Ideal Community?

By David M. Greenwald In 2018, only 57 percent of the voters supported a parcel tax for roads—it needed a ...

By David M. Greenwald In 2018, only 57 percent of the voters supported a parcel tax for roads—it needed a two-thirds vote and thus went down to defeat. Last month, Measure B, which some were hoping w ...

December 31, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Letter: A Research Park Would Create Jobs and Spur the Local Economy

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: December 30, 2020
| (51) Comments

Letter: A Research Park Would Create Jobs and Spur the Local Economy

by Pam Marrone I have been reading the letters criticizing the City Council’s Measure B support. The City ...

by Pam Marrone I have been reading the letters criticizing the City Council’s Measure B support. The City Council voted on what they thought would be best for the city. Why? Thousands of R&D-based ...

December 30, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Commentary: Lawsuit against Aggie Square Shows It’s Not Just Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 29, 2020
| (15) Comments

Commentary: Lawsuit against Aggie Square Shows It’s Not Just Davis

By David M. Greenwald Davis may have mastered the art of the circular firing squad, but it is not alone i ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis may have mastered the art of the circular firing squad, but it is not alone in this regard. The lawsuit was filed by someone familiar to those paying close attention in Da ...

December 29, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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