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Press Releases
Greater Sacramento Region Recovers All Jobs Lost During the Pandemic
New data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis shows that the Greater Sacramento region has recovered all the jobs that it lost during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the first time in 30 years, the region recovered faster than California.
Greater Sacramento Region Set for Unprecedented 5-Year Growth
A new white paper from Greater Sacramento Economic Council (GSEC) and Newmark finds the Greater Sacramento region is on a major growth trajectory as investment, population increase and expanding opportunities for talent and education go into overdrive.
Leading medical device company to build Center for Excellence in Cellular Manufacturing in Greater Sacramento (Rancho Cordova)
ThermoGenesis Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: THMO), in partnership with the City of Rancho Cordova and the Greater Sacramento Economic Council (GSEC), announced that the company is building a multi-million dollar, 35,500-square-foot Center for Excellence in Cellular Manufacturing in Rancho Cordova, a suburb of Greater Sacramento, to provide contract manufacturing services for cell therapies, including the one called “CAR-T cell therapy”, which could save the lives of many cancer patients just like Emily Whitehead.
Applied Spectra Awarded $1.3 Million Department of Energy Small Business Grants
Applied Spectra won Phase I and Phase II-C awards of $200,000 and $1.1 million of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants to further use of its innovative laser ablation technology to serve U.S. intelligence and expand U.S. industrial manufacturing.
Media Highlights
TurtleTree Opens Sacramento, California, R&D Campus
A biotech company that's using cell-based technologies to create sustainable food and dairy, TurtleTree launched a new R&D Facility in West Sacramento, California.
Workers find success with upskilling programs, land higher-paying jobs following the pandemic
Alicia MacHale’s pandemic experience was all too real. Her grandfather died. She left her job at the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office to help her children learn remotely.
Wealth, class and remote work reshape California’s new boomtowns as people flee big cities
Rebecca Luke was itching to move her family out of the Bay Area, fed up with soaring property taxes, epic commuter crawls and home prices aimed at Silicon Valley venture capitalists.
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