Northern Waterfront Economic Development Initiative Motivation Accomplishments and

Northern Waterfront Economic Development Initiative Motivation, Accomplishments, and Next Moves

Contra Costa County Northern Waterfront

The Northern Waterfront generates $21. 6 billion in annual economic output and is home to an estimated 60% of the industrial designated land in Contra Costa County. There are more than 26, 000 jobs tied to the Northern Waterfront and approximately one third of those jobs are in the Manufacturing Sector. Manufacturing jobs generally provide an average wage above the County's median household income.

“ It’s long been a vision of mine to revitalize Contra Costa County’s Northern Waterfront… I see the revitalization of the County’s Northern Waterfront as vital to anyone concerned with economic development in Contra Costa County…” Supervisor Federal D. Glover, April 2013

Originated in 2013 ■ Motivation to ease transition to cleaner, greener economic drivers over time in the legacy industrial areas along the Carquinez Strait/San Joaquin River ■ Concern for both environmental and economic sustainability for future generations ■ Desire to provide more employment centers closer to population centers, especially in East Contra Costa and Hercules (consistently among the top 10 worst commutes in the Bay Area) ■ Area of concern generally broadened to take in all the Highway 4 communities working to keep and attract good jobs

■ County formed Northern Waterfront Ad Hoc Committee, led by Supervisor Glover and Supervisor Piepho (serving from 2013 -2016) and Supervisor Burgis (serving 2017 through today) ■ Under the committee’s guidance, county staff and city staff from seven cities along highway 4 in the northern part of the county came together to support job retention & expansion

■ Adopted Strategic Action Plan and Conceptual Framework for Human Capital in 2019 to lay out pathway for implementation activities ■ Thank you to consultants Craft Consulting and Emerald HPC LLC ■ Proceeding to a joint agreement with the partner cities to undertake the strategic actions as a collaborative ■ Shared goals of community prosperity and sustainability while improving commutes for residents

Northern Waterfront Target Industry Clusters (2013 -present) Advanced Manufacturing ■ Henkel ■ Bishop Wisecarver ■ Pulse Systems ■ Telemetry Solutions ■ Pacific Instruments ■ Bazell Technologies

Northern Waterfront Target Industry Clusters (2013 -present) Biomedical/ Biotech ■ Bio. Rad ■ Fresenius ■ Sigray, Biocare Medical ■ Bio. Zone ■ Bio. Micro. Lab

Northern Waterfront Target Industry Clusters (2013 -present) Agriscience & Food ■ Ramar Foods ■ Naia Gelato ■ Del Cielo Brewing ■ C&H ■ Dow/Corteva

Northern Waterfront Target Industry Clusters (2013 -present) Transportation Technology ■ Drafting off Go. Mentum Station; also includes aviation innovations and drone industry

Northern Waterfront Target Industry Clusters (2013 -present) Clean Technology ■ Growth industry nationally and regionally; MCE & many installers operating in region

Successes ■ Vortex Marine move to Antioch ■ Future. Build $200, 000 EPA training grant in Pittsburg ■ Electrical vehicle readiness workforce training grant with CCTA, County, and Pittsburg Unified adult school ■ EDA grant for short-line rail feasibility study – underway now in Wilbur Ave. corridor Photo courtesy of Future. Build ■ NWEDI Conceptual Framework report by Emerald HPC led to non-profit job/life skills organizations looking to start operations in East CC ■ 11 Opportunity Zones designated in Northern Waterfront jurisdictions in 2018

Congratulations to Sigray ■ Winner of the East Bay Economic Development Alliance 2019 Innovation Award for Engineering/Design ■ Northern Waterfront company located in Pacheco ■ Pioneer in nanotechnology x-ray equipment, for a variety of scientific and research applications Photo courtesy East Bay EDA

Next Steps ■ Moving from planning to implementation as an economic development partnership

Engage in MOU discussions ■ Covering collaborative economic development projects as a working group

Add projects to work program & budget ■ Priority on projects most important to the working group, those most within our span of control, and those with most replicability to your economic development goals

Add projects to work program & budget ■ Return later this year to approve MOU

“ The Northern Waterfront partnership is a great resource to build regional economic growth. It captures the spirit of Contra Costa, with cities and the county moving forward together. ” Supervisor Diane Burgis, District 3