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The Greater Antelope Valley Is Ready for Growth! The Greater Antelope Valley is Ready For Growth! It has been a pleasure to have the opportunity to serve as Chairman of the GAVEA and AVEREF Boards of Directors this past year. 2017 saw a purposeful effort to both create new, and strengthen current, partnerships with regional workforce development practitioners, educators, Team California, the Industrial Asset Management Council (IAMC), CalEd, GoBis, the local Boards of Trade, Chambers of Commerce and Realtors. These partnerships will serve as the cornerstone of economic growth as we move into 2018. For nearly 20 years, GAVEA’s Economic Round Table Report has been the singular source for current data relevant to business in our region. This year the GAVEA staff has raised the bar to bring you the best Round Table Report to date. We are confident you will be able to use this report to grow your own business, as well as aide in the recruitment of new businesses to the region. The GAVEA board would like to thank our Investors and sponsors for their continued support. Your investment in this organization supports all of the work we do together to build a greater Antelope Valley. The board would also like to recognize the work of the GAVEA staff. The effort you put in to improve the economy of the Antelope Valley is second to none. We look forward to another great and prosperous year, Dr. Steve Radford, GAVEA Chairman Board Members OFFICERS Dr. Steve Radford Chairman Harvey Holloway Director at Large Antelope Valley Union High School District Coldwell Banker Commercial Valley Realty Rob Duchow Vice Chair George Atkinson Director at Large The Gas Company Atkinson and Associates Laurel Shockley Secretary Veronica Knudson Director at Large Southern California Edison Palmdale Regional Medical Center DIRECTORS Martha Molina-Aviles Ed Knudson LA County Workforce Development Board Antelope Valley College Tom Barnes Bernie Longjohn Antelope Valley East Kern Water Agency Learn 4 Life Chenin Dow Chris L. Perez City of Lancaster Wells Fargo Laura Gallegos Robert Stockwell Palmdale Water District City of California City Greg Garrett Donna Termeer City of Tehachapi LA County Supervisor Kathryn Barger Mary Beth Garrison Peter Wolters Rio Tinto Borates Kaiser Permanente Norm Hickling Cheri Bryant - Retired Antelope Valley Transit Authority Antelope Valley Press, Ex-Officio Teresa Hitchcock Dixie Eliopulos Honorary Founding Member 2 Kern County SPECIAL THANKS With appreciation… Pulling together a Report like this annually is no small task, Table of Contents especially when we try to include as many story-tellers as possible to assist us. It’s like herding cats… but, the effort continues for several months! So, it’s important to recognize and thank those that do the most to make it happen almost seamlessly. Board Members, Officers & Directors . 2 First and foremost, Mr. Kyle Hart and his creative genius team at Pixsym Marketing in Table of Contents / Special Thanks . 3 Tehachapi…for the third year in a row, GAVEA has chose Pixsym to be our design and Introduction. 4 development team due to his professionalism and keen eye for detail. EDUCATION. 5-9 Next, Ms. Tracey Davis and her team at Davis Communications in Lancaster. Tracey and K-12 Public/Private Schools . 5 her team helped us imagine a new brand four years ago and the change has made a world of difference in the way people view GAVEA. Career Technical Education . 6-7 Stem Education & Schools that Work . 8-9 The GAVEA staff of PJ DelGaudio (Executive Asst.), Meoshae Myles (Special Projects Coordinator), and, Vanessa Camacho (SOAR High School Intern and AVC Student) are DEMOGRAPHICS . 10-35 extraordinary woman who work tirelessly to make this organization thrive. Without their Regional Profile . 10 commitment to show up, step up and do whatever it takes this Report would be half the Population Detail. 11 great resource it is. Employment by Sector . 12 And, finally, a big thank you to our Investors and Sponsors who help pay for this Report! Los Angeles County . 13 Without this elite group of folks that believe in the big picture of Regional Economic Lancaster . 14 Development, none of this could happen. It is because of you, we press on. Palmdale . 16 It has been a pleasure to work with this team to get the job done. We hope you enjoy the Kern County . 18 GAVEA 2018 Economic Round Table Report and can use the information to help you grow Mojave & Rosamond . 19 your business. California City . 20 - Kimberly Maevers, President Tehachapi. 22 Ridgecrest . 24 Like what we’re doing here? ‘18 Cover Story & Extended Centerfold Help support our efforts by becoming an Investor. Pages . 26-35 See pages 57-59 or visit our website Economic Developers North L.A. Co. 26 Economic Developers Southeast Kern Co.. 27 www.SoCalLeadingEdge.org Available, Affordable, Accessible. 28-35 -or - Call (661) 722-6566 Region Map . 31 ECONOMY . 36-45 Dare to Compare . 36 Cost of Doing Business, Foreign Trade . 38 Largest Employers / Retail Sales Data . 39 Mailing Address Agriculture / Aerospace . 40 PO Box 5477 Aerospace. 40-41 Staff Lancaster, CA 93539-5477 Aviation & Airports . 42 Creative Economy . 43 Physical Address Kimberly Maevers Mining / Renewable Energy . 44 On the AV College Campus President 3041 W. Ave K – SCT Room 125 QUALITY OF LIFE . 45-55 P.J. Del Gaudio Lancaster, CA 93536 Cost of Living . 45 Executive Assistant Housing Affordability & Market . 46-47 Entertainment & Recreation. 48-51 Meoshae Myles Phone (661) 722-6566 Hospitals & Health Care . 52 Special Projects Coordinator Fax (661) 722-6616 Public Transportation . 53 Email [email protected] Water . 54 Air Quality / Utilities . 55 COPYRIGHT © 2018 BY GREATER ANTELOPE VALLEY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE - All rights reserved. No part Chambers of Commerce / Small Biz Help . 56 of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission Investor Info . 57-58 of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other Investor Options . 59 noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. Sponsors. 60 For permission requests, write to the publisher, addressed “Attention: Copyright Permission” at the address provided. 3 SHARING OUR STORIES ABOUT THE REGION Since 1999, the Greater Antelope Valley Economic Alliance has The big headline for 2016 stated California was losing jobs been conducting research, collecting data and demographics to other states, that manufacturers were leaving the state in and packaging the information into an annual Economic “droves” because of over-regulation and cost. Yet, our local Round Table Report. For nearly twenty years we’ve done this manufacturers were busy investing in new assets, expanding report so that our Investors and Allies may have a better their operations and workforce and digging in to stay in a understanding of the growth trends happening presently, and place where they could afford their land, buildings and talent. what we can expect for the future. So that was our centerfold story! Throughout this Report you’ll see stories about many great companies who are committed to Four years ago, I decided to change the way we presented the staying here and employing our talented workforce. information to you, and I wanted to personalize the stories and the data in a way that made it more relevant and useful. Speaking of workforce, our 2017 centerfold story was about I recruited the five cities and the two counties to share their the talent and the people that make up our region. We wrote stories, we asked the aerospace, and agriculture professionals, about the partnership of our educators and industry and the job the water purveyors, air quality and transportation teams, as training programs that are in place to get people ready to work well as healthcare and education professionals all to share faster, smarter and better trained than ever before. Regionally, their stories, too. It was my hope that this Report could become we know there are an estimated 70,000 commuters a day that a regional atlas of information and resources you could use to leave their home and drive to another community for work. grow your business and plan for the future. There is no shortage of talent or workforce in this place…they just happen to be working someplace else. My goal continues As I started travelling the country (and the world) as the GAVEA to be to recruit those jobs back “home” so that my neighbors President meeting with Site Selectors and business executives and friends can live and work in the same community with who are interested in doing business in CA. I learned that their families. there’s a lot of negative notoriety along with bad publicity about California that I needed to respond to. It was then, we I couldn’t be more excited about this years’ Report theme, started building our centerfold and cover concepts around a Affordability, Accessibility and Availability! Because we’ve got central theme each year so that I could bust the myths about another story to tell and it’s quite simply this – there is NO my Antelope Valley specifically, and California in general. PLACE left in southern California that is more affordable, has more land available and has the access to consumers and trade Our 2014 centerfold story was about STEM Education and how partners as this place. Pull open our gatefold and learn more our educators had been teaming with industry to address skills about this place we call home…check out our Dare to Compare gaps for many of our local jobs. Preparing students for 21st fact sheet on 36-37 and see how we blow the competition century jobs in manufacturing, aerospace, engineering, the away in every category we studied, turn to pages 47-48 for arts and sciences is crucial to our employers and our educators more information about real estate trends and see that this have done an outstanding job responding with curriculum is the place for business, for jobs and for a quality of life like that works! See pages 5-9 of this Report to see how education nowhere else.
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