Business View Magazine | November 2019

260 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2019 light industrial in the northeast quadrant of Dixon. Companies that have moved to the city say how pleased they are with the way the city facilitates development and gets you through the process. Tasini notes, “We are pro-business. We create personal communication and relationships with developers so they know they can come to us. We work out problems. We are the ultimate business-friendly community. We have an educated workforce, many graduates from the university, as well as a labor force. We have a lot of manufacturing, also. We already have quite an existing workforce. Dixon itself is transitioning and our workforce will be growing. “The benefits for someone coming here is that we’re very fast through the entitlement process, which saves a lot of cost. No delays. A lot has happened here recently, and Dixon is a place that’s about to burst onto the scene. There’s no hidden agenda, no anti-development, the quality of life here is fabulous, and affordable!” “We know there’s a niche here to do something different and to be something different,” Tasini adds. “There is a lot of push for us to change and our Council has been very supportive. In fact, in the General Plan, part of downtown will be designated as a mixed-use district, allowing for commercial on the ground floor and residential above, so there would be more flexibility on how to redevelop a lot of these properties. In addition, I intend to look at zoning the downtown as part of a pedestrian overlay district to intensify growth in the core. We don’t have a vibrant commercial core since we have allowed office uses in the downtown leading to a quiet downtown with little to no activity in the evenings. Therefore, in order to create a welcoming place that would attract people, we would not allow any more offices on the ground floor - all street-level businesses would have to be pedestrian-oriented, with offices on the second floor or behind. To be honest, it is going to be a ten-year process. But they’re all fun challenges; that’s why I do this work.” There are many vacant land opportunities for PREFERRED VENDORS n Colavita www.colavita.com Born in the quaint hilltop village of Sant’Elia a Pianisi in the Molise region of Italy, the Colavita family has been sharing its flavorful and fruity extra virgin olive oil worldwide for generations. Today Colavita® is proud to call Dixon, California home. With a new, state-of-the-art facility to supplement headquarter operations in New Jersey and Italy, Colavita Dixon has added the homegrown taste of California to the company’s Trusted Family Brand of products. n Scannell Properties www.scannellproperties.com www.scannellproperties.com 3468 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Suite B115, Lafayette, CA 94549 (510) 899-8302 BUILDING SOLUTIONS THAT MATTER