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Report: County has future in life sciences By Rachel Raskin-Zrihen | 01-Mar-2009 Solano County is poised to be a major player in the life sciences industry -- among the nation's fastest growing -- local and regional economic experts said. read more >
Windsmiths make turbines go 'round By Barry Eberling | DAILY REPUBLIC | 30-Apr-2008 Windsmiths care for turbines. Perales works for the wind company called enXco, which recently opened the Shiloh II wind farm in eastern Solano County. read more >
Welcoming the stimulus By Richard Bammer | 01-Apr-2009 Michael Ammann, President of Solano Economic Development Corporation, will serve on the regional Bay Area Council Economic Institute's advisory board, providing information that will eventually lead to the funding of economic stimulus programs. read more >
Cork Supply USA builds cooperage by Jeff Quackenbush, Business Journal Staff Reporter | 09-Mar-2009 Cork Supply Group, one of the world’s largest producers and distributors of wine bottle closures, plans to start rolling out its own barrels this spring from a new cooperage nearing completion at the company’s headquarters. read more >
Feeding a need Richard Bammer | 28-Sep-2008 Higby's Country Feed, Inc has expanded it's Dixon feed, fencing and clothing store from a relatively small 1,500 square feet to 7,200. read more >
City spotlight: Dixon East Bay Business Times | 27-Jun-2008 History: The Dixon area was first settled in 1852 by Elijah S. Silvey, who operated a roadhouse in a farming community known as Silveyville about two miles northwest of where Dixon now stands. read more >
Bay-Tec leaves Napa for Fairfield BY JEFF QUACKENBUSH, BUSINESS JOURNAL STAFF REPORTER | 01-Apr-2009 ENGINEERING FIRM SAYS NEW LOCATION BETTER FOR MANY EMPLOYEES AND CUSTOMERS read more >
Meyer to expand by building automated warehouse By Ben Antonius | Daily Republic | 06-Mar-2009 Cookware distribution giant Meyer Corp. will soon launch a construction project to give Fairfield the 'largest automated warehouse west of the Mississippi.' read more >
AAA to open 225-employee office in Solano by D. Ashley Furness | 09-Feb-2009 AAA Northern California announced plans to occupy about 52,000 square feet of office space in Solano and move about 225 employees, which represents about 15 percent of the area’s annual job growth. read more >
Suisun hotel builders hope to open by summer By Ian Thompson | DAILY REPUBLIC | 26-Dec-2008 The builders of Suisun City's first hotel in decades are shooting to have the four-story building on Driftwood Drive and Lotz Way open for business this summer. read more >
Vacaville fruit packer has sunny outlook with solar project cbowman@sacbee.com | 02-Dec-2008 Mark Mariani will begin powering the packing lines of one of the world's largest dried fruit plants with the same energy source his grandfather tapped at the start of the century-old family business. read more >
State Fund opens $77 million Solano campus by D. Ashley Furness, Business Journal Staff Reporter | 17-Nov-2008 Workers’ comp insurer State Compensation Insurance Fund has opened its new $77-million Vacaville campus, which is expected to earn a top-tier environmental building accreditation. read more >
Vallejo Yacht Club starts work on $2 million sea wall By Rachel Raskin-Zrihen/Times-Herald staff writer | 16-Mar-2009 The first major renovation along the Vallejo waterfront in nearly two decades began last week, as the initial parts of a new sea wall were placed. read more >
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