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This issue features several timely topics, including supply chain management and logistics, plastics, and metalworking and fabricating. In the COVID-19 era, the norms of supply chain logistics have been thrown out, and companies are discovering that the processes that once worked well to keep costs down are actually driving up the cost of doing business. In this issue, we feature several editorials that discuss the new challenges to supply chain, and how manufacturers, suppliers, warehouses and ports and depots are handling these new realities.
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Featured Location
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The Visalia Economic Development Corporation is a nonprofit focused on supporting Visalia Industrial Park (VIP) businesses. We help to develop training programs, connect employers for mutual benefit, share ideas and successes. Location, available labor and affordable homes and land make the VIP ideal from a business perspective. The VEDC helps make Visalia ideal as we create community.
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Featured Articles
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CiCi Awards 2021 Corporate Investment Awards
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While 2020 has certainly presented some challenges on the corporate investment front, many large projects continued apace, and the year is shaping up to be a strong one. The 15 Corporate Investment winners of Trade & Industry Development’s 2021 CiCi Awards have been determined from the details announced in 2019 and 2020 of corporate development projects.
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CiCi Awards 2021 Community Impact Awards
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A company’s decision to locate a new facility or expand an existing one can have a profound effect on a community, and it can go well beyond a simple business decision. For the 15th annual CiCi Awards for Community Impact, Trade & Industry Development is recognizing 15 projects announced in 2019 and 2020 that demonstrate how site selection can make a difference in the community where the company has chosen to locate.
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Short-Term Realities and the Commercial Real Estate Long Game
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The immediate and short-term realities of the commercial real estate market are, to put it mildly, somewhat murky. The most significant factors playing out in the market include the impact of the COVID-19 virus on commercial real estate as well as a change in presidential administrations in Washington. But like most sea-change events, longer term changes in the landscape are more challenging to discern.
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Workplace Flexibility: Getting to the Other Side of COVID-19
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2020 was a year of relentless uncertainty, and that uncertainty has extended into the real estate world to our expectations about the future of workplace occupancy patterns. The task ahead for property owners and employers is to successfully negotiate an environment that will almost certainly continue to evolve, perhaps returning more quickly than expected to something like a pre-COVID normal.
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