Craneway Pavilion: Icons of Richmond’S Revival
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SEPTEMBER 13-19, 2013 | ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT Richmond!Your Home Front for Business The home town of “Rosie the Riveter” carries on the can-do tradition xxxxxxx Room To Grow Tech and Life Sciences Outdoor Recreation Celebrating Diversity Richmond’s Southern Shoreline Richmond Bay Campus promises Miles of bike and walking paths to Neighborhoods reflect the area’s offers development opportunity. 7 growth in sectors. 10 explore a spectacular setting. 16 cultural richness. 20 2 RICHMOND! ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT SF BUSINESS TIMES | SEPTEMBER 12-18, 2013 Your home front for business! www.ci.richmond.ca.us www.ci.richmond.ca.us n 510-620-6512 SF BUSINESS TIMES | SEPTEMBER 12-18, 2013 ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT RICHMOND! 3 The business bank you want. The personal attention you deserve. Richmond’s City Council: Left to right, Jim Rogers, Vice Mayor Corky Boozé, Jael Myrick, Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, Jovanka Beckles, Nathaniel Bates, Tom Butt A New Energy in Richmond t is no wonder that more businesses each day are making Richmond their home, as they discover the unparalleled location and rich amenities that are helping to revitalize the community. I Bio and life sciences, green tech, health services, food preparation and packaging, and product distribution represent just some of the diverse, burgeoning industries that are recognizing Richmond as the best business option in the Bay Area. Our strategic, central location, sensible real estate values, tax incentives and welcoming climate are all contributing factors to broad-based business and industrial growth. And our diverse neighborhoods, pristine marinas, recreational and cultural amenities, and more miles of trail-lined shoreline than any other city in the Bay Area, make Richmond among the most unique communities in California. We invite you to discover the Bay Area’s best-kept secret and to experience for yourself what’s causing a new energy in Richmond. —Bill Lindsay, Richmond City Manager Contents A City Rich in Diversity ..........................................................................................................................4 Best Of Richmond ....................................................................................................................................4 Richmond Works for Business .............................................................................................................5 Ford Assembly Plant, Richmond, California, 1931 Richmond: Your Destination to Grow & Expand ............................................................................ 7 Innovation Clusters Thriving in Richmond ......................................................................................9 We understand that relationships matter. That’s New Richmond Campus ...................................................................................................................... 10 Port of Richmond: Northern California’s Most Diversified Cargo Handler ..........................12 how we’ve built our business and it’s probably Specialty Producers in Demand from Discerning ‘Foodies’ ....................................................14 how you’ve built yours. For more than 108 years, Visit Richmond ........................................................................................................................................16 we have remained committed to helping local Ford Point / Craneway Pavilion: Icons of Richmond’s Revival ................................................18 Dining & Shopping .................................................................................................................................19 businesses succeed. Dedicated to the financial Neighborhoods ......................................................................................................................................20 success of you, your business and your employees, Neighborhood Policing Improving Public Safety .........................................................................21 we’re here to help meet your financial needs Building Healthy Communities ......................................................................................................... 22 Kaiser Key to Richmond’s History & Healthy Future ................................................................ 22 through all stages of your growth. Stories by Carol Piasente Design and layout by Carol Collier Richmond Hilltop 3170 Hilltop Mall Road About the cover: Rosie the Riveter 510.262.7251 Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon, Richmond Mira Vista representing the American women who worked in factories and the defense 4100 Macdonald Avenue industry during World War II. Their con- 510.970.9830 tributions are memorialized at the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park on the southern Richmond waterfront near the site of the Point Richmond Kaiser Richmond Shipyards. Richmond’s 4 W. Richmond Avenue well-deserved reputation as America’s quintessential home front city was largely 510.970.9844 built on the impressive production of the Henry J. Kaiser shipyards where thou- sands of women were employed. Between 1940 and 1945, the Richmond shipyards produced 747 ships, more than any other complex in the United States. Kaiser’s ships were completed in two-thirds the time and at a quarter the cost of the aver- age of all other shipyards. Liberty ships were typically assembled in a little over two weeks. Today, “Rosie” has come to MechanicsBank.com symbolize the strength of Richmond’s workforce and the city’s “can-do” atti- tude to taking advantage of 21st Century MEMBER FDIC opportunities. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS www.ci.richmond.ca.us n 510-620-6512 4 RICHMOND! ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT SF BUSINESS TIMES | SEPTEMBER 12-18, 2013 RichMOND SWEEPS Richmond: Home Front for Diversity ‘BEST OF’ Lists *List compiled from the East Bay BY Bill Lindsay Express Best of the Bay Lists, 2013 Richmond City Manager Gayle McLaughlin – iversity. The dictionary tells us the world Best Politician Against All Odds relates to “the condition of being com - D posed of a variety of distinct elements Chris Magnus - or qualities.” For Richmond, the term “diver- Top Cop Who Most Gets it sity” embodies the strength of its character, the richness of its cultures, the source of its Betty Reid Soskin - energy and the promise of a rewarding future. Most Awe-Inspiring Park Ranger Through such diversity – in business and Urban Tilth - industry, in land uses and in its people – the Best Urban Gardening Training City of Richmond is poised for dynamic and Program positive change during the next decade. Richmond’s home front efforts during the Richmond Greenway - 1940s are legendary, and made the city the Best Urban Oasis very symbol of a diverse and industrious Richmond Plunge - workforce. Just as its World War II shipbuild- Best Public Pool ing prowess was renowned, so too will be Richmond’s contribution to the clean energy Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front future of the globe be celebrated. National Historic Park - The City of Richmond received a signifi - Best WWII Shrine cant vote of confidence by being designat - East Bay Center for the Performing Arts ed by the University of California and the Richmond Shipyard workers during WWII. - Best Longstanding Performing Arts Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Education Venue as the preferred site for a new Richmond Richmond’s home front efforts during the 1940s are Bay Campus. These organizations, known Catahoula Coffee Company & throughout the world for the quality of their legendary, and made the city the very symbol of a diverse Roastery - Best Coffee Snob research, did their homework and chose Destination North of Berkeley Richmond. With that designation, the community is, and industrious workforce. once again, embarking on a dramatic new era of its history. This era is geared toward a new residential community with a thriving and mitment to workforce development and gy to propel the Richmond community into type of industry, and, quite literally, a new dynamic economy. for partnering in education, training and its new century are its diverse citizenry. type of energy. It is the foundation for com- The designation of the community as the advanced manufacturing. With Richmond’s As many businesses have discovered, the mercial growth that will secure Richmond’s preferred site for the Richmond Bay Campus available land, and ready access to all forms Richmond community can be overwhelming future as a business, industrial, maritime and has galvanized the city’s efforts and com - of transportation and logistics – including – in the best meaning of the word -- in terms a Port, two rail systems and two interstate of the welcoming, caring and nurturing qual- highways -- there are countless opportunities ity of its residents and its city organization. for expanding business opportunities in our In this community, business leaders have community. discovered a history that is a source of pride, The seeds that are now being planted in the diversity that is a source of strength and a city’s downtown area also provide a stunning future that is limitless. vision for Richmond. The city is embarking There is no reason that a future Nobel Prize on a downtown renaissance that will focus on winner cannot come out of Richmond’s pub- building pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods, lic school system to join the names of UC with mixed commercial establishments and Berkeley’s and LBNL’s current Nobel laure- a variety of housing types clustered around ates; nor is there any reason