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My View: Vote on CFD Represents A Lost Opportunity For Community

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 21, 2015
| (60) Comments

My View: Vote on CFD Represents A Lost Opportunity For Community

When the Davis City Council voted 3-2 Tuesday to move the CFD (Community Facilities District) forward, th ...

When the Davis City Council voted 3-2 Tuesday to move the CFD (Community Facilities District) forward, the vote represented, in my view, two things. First, it was a lost opportunity by the council to ...

February 21, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Belated Monday Morning Thoughts: Refining the Nishi Proposal

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 20, 2015
| (7) Comments

Belated Monday Morning Thoughts: Refining the Nishi Proposal

Nishi getting National Attention “Watch out Sacramento – ...

Nishi getting National Attention “Watch out Sacramento – Davis, Calif., is growing,” Govtech warns in a recent article on Davis and the Nishi Gateway p ...

January 20, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis: Should We Wait on Nishi for UCD Decisions on Connectivity?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 15, 2015
| (17) Comments

Analysis: Should We Wait on Nishi for UCD Decisions on Connectivity?

On Sunday, we noted that when the Housing Element Steering Committee ranked potential housing sites, they ...

On Sunday, we noted that when the Housing Element Steering Committee ranked potential housing sites, they listed the Nishi Property with UC Davis access only at No.17, and the Nishi site with access v ...

January 15, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Panattoni Announces 225,000 Square Foot Office Park in Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 15, 2015
| (31) Comments

Panattoni Announces 225,000 Square Foot Office Park in Davis

DTZ, a global leader in commercial real estate services, announced today that Panattoni Development Compa ...

DTZ, a global leader in commercial real estate services, announced today that Panattoni Development Company, Inc. has gone into escrow on an undeveloped ±14.81 acre site in Davis, CA. Panattoni plans ...

January 15, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Work on Nishi EIR About to Begin – Staff Weighs Olive-Only Access Option

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 10, 2015
| (45) Comments

Work on Nishi EIR About to Begin – Staff Weighs Olive-Only Access Option

It has been just over two years since the Davis City Council approved a pre-development shared costs agre ...

It has been just over two years since the Davis City Council approved a pre-development shared costs agreement with the property owner of Nishi. Last year, the city was awarded a $600,000 grant from t ...

January 10, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Why I Want an Innovation Park in Davis

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: December 16, 2014
| (23) Comments

Why I Want an Innovation Park in Davis

By Jason Taormino “What will an innovation park do for Davis?” Many Davis voters, likely a majority of vo ...

By Jason Taormino “What will an innovation park do for Davis?” Many Davis voters, likely a majority of voters, do not work for a business and therefore have a different set of experiences than someone ...

December 16, 2014
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Monday Morning Thoughts: How Fernandes Became President of SB; Innovation Park Calculations

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 08, 2014
| (24) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: How Fernandes Became President of SB; Innovation Park Calculations

Normally the nomination and election of officers is about as interesting as watching paint dry. However, ...

Normally the nomination and election of officers is about as interesting as watching paint dry. However, as we saw back in 2011 with the city council, when there is the lack of a clear script and an o ...

December 08, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Excitement Over Emerging Startup Culture; Dose of Reality on the Budget

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 24, 2014
| (32) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Excitement Over Emerging Startup Culture; Dose of Reality on the Budget

The Rise of the Startup Culture – We have focused a lot of our time and energy looking at the proposed in ...

The Rise of the Startup Culture – We have focused a lot of our time and energy looking at the proposed innovation parks. The most important thing that we need to remember is that there is not a zero-s ...

November 24, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis: The Contrast Between Two Candidates Correcting Mistakes

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 02, 2014
| 0 comments

Analysis: The Contrast Between Two Candidates Correcting Mistakes

The smart money in the school board race remains about the same, with most believing that four will be fa ...

The smart money in the school board race remains about the same, with most believing that four will be factors, vying for the three top spots. Again, it’s hard to picture the top two not being Barbara ...

November 02, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Davis Schools and Private Sector Business Interactions: A Win-Win Scenario

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 31, 2014
| (13) Comments

Davis Schools and Private Sector Business Interactions: A Win-Win Scenario

By Bob Poppenga One significant risk for organizations like the DJUSD, which have a history of success an ...

By Bob Poppenga One significant risk for organizations like the DJUSD, which have a history of success and “leading the pack”, is a tendency to be inward looking and failing to take advantage of innov ...

October 31, 2014
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Is an Innovation Park Just a Rebranding of a Business Park?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 28, 2014
| (79) Comments

Is an Innovation Park Just a Rebranding of a Business Park?

“Isn't “Innovation Park” just a rebranding of “Business Park”? How is an innovation park any different fr ...

“Isn't “Innovation Park” just a rebranding of “Business Park”? How is an innovation park any different from a business park?” This was an audience question that comes up a lot more than one might thin ...

October 28, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (79) Comments

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My View: City’s Innovation Park Strategy and Peripheral Parks

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 25, 2014
| (18) Comments

My View: City’s Innovation Park Strategy and Peripheral Parks

Last week at the Vanguard Innovation Park Forum, Michael Bisch, the President of the Davis Downtown state ...

Last week at the Vanguard Innovation Park Forum, Michael Bisch, the President of the Davis Downtown stated, “Let’s be clear, we’re not talking about one innovation park. We’re not talking about one ph ...

October 25, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (18) Comments

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Analysis: 7 Million Square Feet – Can Davis Support That Size of Development?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 24, 2014
| (55) Comments

Analysis: 7 Million Square Feet – Can Davis Support That Size of Development?

At last week’s Innovation Park Forum, one of the audience questions was “Is there enough of a market for ...

At last week’s Innovation Park Forum, one of the audience questions was “Is there enough of a market for space to support development of all three proposed innovation parks plus Nishi Gateway over the ...

October 24, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (55) Comments

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Discussion: Housing and the Innovation Park

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 18, 2014
| (36) Comments

Discussion: Housing and the Innovation Park

On Thursday evening, the Vanguard hosted a discussion on Innovation Parks, and over the next several days ...

On Thursday evening, the Vanguard hosted a discussion on Innovation Parks, and over the next several days, we will have some coverage of what the panelists said. We also took in nearly 30 questions fr ...

October 18, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis: Should Davis Push For More Density at Mace Ranch Innovation Center?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 16, 2014
| (46) Comments

Analysis: Should Davis Push For More Density at Mace Ranch Innovation Center?

As the official applications – first by the Mace Ranch Innovation Center and today by the Davis Innovatio ...

As the official applications – first by the Mace Ranch Innovation Center and today by the Davis Innovation Center – come in, we are able to start evaluating the actual proposals rather than the innova ...

October 16, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (46) Comments

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City to Hire Consultant, Planning Staff to Handle Innovation Parks

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 06, 2014
| (6) Comments

City to Hire Consultant, Planning Staff to Handle Innovation Parks

For some time the city has been in a quandary. For a number of years, the city’s planning staff was viewe ...

For some time the city has been in a quandary. For a number of years, the city’s planning staff was viewed as excessive, particularly for a city that was not growing. However, the anticipated workload ...

October 06, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Taking Stock

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 01, 2014
| (28) Comments

Taking Stock

by Doby Fleeman Over the past decade, the city has largely ignored the need for additional revenues nece ...

by Doby Fleeman Over the past decade, the city has largely ignored the need for additional revenues necessary to support expanded infrastructure and public service programs from the past several deca ...

October 01, 2014
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (28) Comments

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Analysis: Impasse on City Manager?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 30, 2014
| (15) Comments

Analysis: Impasse on City Manager?

On September 6, we knew that the Davis City Council conducted interviews of potential city manager hires. ...

On September 6, we knew that the Davis City Council conducted interviews of potential city manager hires. The interview process was noticed through a meeting agenda, but we only know the identities of ...

September 30, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (15) Comments

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The Opportunity is Ours

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: September 17, 2014
| (43) Comments

The Opportunity is Ours

By Doby Fleeman Even as a relatively new member of a family with 100-plus-year-old roots in the Davis bus ...

By Doby Fleeman Even as a relatively new member of a family with 100-plus-year-old roots in the Davis business community, I tend to take the long view. Having investments and a business in Davis bring ...

September 17, 2014
| by Vanguard Administrator

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My View: The Courage to Kill a Bad Proposed Innovation Park

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 06, 2014
| (45) Comments

My View: The Courage to Kill a Bad Proposed Innovation Park

A lot of people have talked about a concept of demolition by neglect, where there are buildings on a parc ...

A lot of people have talked about a concept of demolition by neglect, where there are buildings on a parcel where the developer wishes to propose a project that gains a large amount of controversy and ...

September 06, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (45) Comments

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