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Solano EDC tells Vacaville council power, workforce and housing are county obstacles to job growth
Summary
Chris Rico, president of the Solano County Economic Development Corporation, updated the Vacaville City Council on county efforts to attract manufacturing and high-value jobs, highlighting power capacity shortfalls, a revolving small-business loan fund, ADU outreach and grants for industrial land readiness.
The Solano County Economic Development Corporation briefed the Vacaville City Council on April 8 about countywide steps to attract new jobs and prepare industrial land — and about obstacles that could limit success.
Chris Rico, president and CEO of the Solano EDC, told the council that the county’s top infrastructure constraint for higher-value manufacturing is electric power capacity. “Our biggest inhibitor to economic development in Solano County … is power,” Rico said. He told council members the EDC is working on “priority production areas” planning and infrastructure-readiness projects so jurisdictions are “shovel ready” if large federal or…
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