HomeMy WebLinkAbout04-02-2013 C2 Cooper 2Goodwin. Heather
~gym: Grimes, Maeve
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 9:06 AM
..,: Goodwin, Heather
Subject: FW: Site Selection Criteria For High -Tech Companies
Attachments: 041513 ... siteselectionforhigh- techcompanies.docx
Heather,
Please post as Agenda Correspondence for Item C2.
Thank you,
maeve kenneby Qwmes
City Clerk
clay Of SAn Luis OBISPO
990 Palm Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
phone; (805) 781 -7102
cmmt: mgrimes @slocity.org
From: Marx, Jan
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 7:46 PM
To: Grimes, Maeve
,bject: FW: Site Selection Criteria For High -Tech Companies
ease post this as agenda correspondence.
Thanks,
Jan
Jan Howell Marx
Mayor of San Luis Obispo
(805) 781 -7120 or (805) 541 -2716
From: Allan Cooper [allancoope @gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 4:26 PM
To: Marx, Jan; Carpenter, Dan; Ashbaugh, John; Smith, Kathy
Subject: Site Selection Criteria For High -Tech Companies
RECEIVED
APR 16 2013
SLO CITY C[.�-RK
AGENDA
CORRESPONDENCE
Date Item# '
Dear Honorable Mayor Marx and Council Members -
Could you please "red -file" the following (see attached) for Item C -2 for tomorrow's Council meeiting? Thank
you!
- Allan
Trends and Criteria in Site Selection
for High -Tech Companies
by RICK L. WEDDLE
president & CEO of the Metro Orlando
Economic Development Commission
Trends and Criteria in
Site Selection for
H igh -Tech
Companies
by RICK L. WEDDLE
president & CEO of the Metro Orlando
Economic Development Commission
"Many high -tech companies want co- working options in a young,
urban, funky downtown location with amenities nearby. Much of this is
based around the work of author Richard Florida and his concept of the
creative class and its implications for urban regeneration. Two
American cities following this model are Austin, Texas, and Orlando,
Florida. ❑
Austin recently joined the International Association of Science Parks
and Areas of Innovation (IASP) as the first -ever city to be recognized
as a science park. And Orlando is on its way with two major science
parks — Central Florida Research Park and Lake Nona Medical City
— and the upcoming Creative Village planned for downtown Orlando.
Internationally, there are several centers focusing on urban renewal and
a focus on social inclusion, including:
Porto Digital is an Information and Communication Technology Center
located in Recife, Brazil. To date, the center has attracted almost 200
companies including IBM, Motorola, Samsung and Microsoft.
22 @Barcelona — "The Innovation District" — in Barcelona, Spain,
has transformed its industrial downtown area with new energy
networks, wi -f and optic fiber and mobility, attracting companies in
the areas of media, information and communication technologies (ICT),
Medical Technologies (MedTech), energy and design.
Adlershof is a science, business and media location in Berlin, Germany,
with more than 400 high -tech companies. Originally the center for
German aviation, the center is now known as a "City of Science,
Technology and Media."
We'll continue to see more examples of science parks going from a
traditional business park model into a more dispersed, organic, urban
core in an effort to attract high tech companies and their workers.