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Consultant lays out economic development opportunities plan for Santa Fe Springs

Santa Fe Springs City Council · August 20, 2025
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Summary

Cosmo Companies consultant Ken Herro presented an economic development opportunities plan stressing the city’s large industrial base, underused retail potential and tools such as EIFDs and transient-occupancy-tax changes to attract hotels and retail; council heard the presentation and staff said the plan is on the agenda for adoption.

Ken Herro, a consultant with Cosmo Companies, told the Santa Fe Springs City Council that the city’s economy has strengths and untapped opportunities that the city can act on. “You have obviously a large industrial base, 50 some odd million square feet,” Herro said, and that daytime population creates demand the city could capture with targeted economic-development tools.

Herro summarized a SWOT analysis and market metrics and pointed to…

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