Business View Magazine | October 2019

287 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2019 DUBL IN, CAL I FORNI A 1890s, it became better known as Dublin, after the capital of Ireland. During World War II, Parks Reserve Forces Training Area, commonly known as Camp Parks, home of the Army’s 91st Division, and part of the U.S. Army Combat Support Training Center at Fort Hunter Liggett, was built in Dublin. Camp Parks serves to support the training needs of more than 20,000 Army Reserve and National Guard Soldiers in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. In 1960, the first housing tracts were built in West Dublin, transforming the formerly rural community into a suburb. It grew steadily from the early 1960s onward, as both a residential and retail center, and it incorporated as a city in 1982. During the past 20 years, Dublin, as well as the entire Tri- Valley area, has become renowned as a place of prosperity, a center for internationally acclaimed business parks - Bishop Ranch in San Ramon and Hacienda Business Park in Pleasanton. According to Economic Development Director, Hazel Wetherford, Dublin’s location in the center of the Tri-Valley, its two intersecting interstates, and its two BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) stations, make it an ideal place for businesses to locate. “We are north of Silicon Valley which lends itself well to engineers and programmers working there who then choose to live here in Dublin and the Tri-Valley communities because of our affordability and quality of life compared to the areas they work in,” she explains. “We have a wide variety of housing opportunities that, when compared to Redwood City and San Jose, are more affordable. And when we’re meeting with businesses, it’s all about location. They love that Dublin is growing; they love the quality of life here; they love the fact that the schools are highly rated. We have a growing tech cluster that we’re starting to see, here, in the Tri-Valley area, and we’re trying to build upon that by attracting more technology and enterprise software businesses to Dublin.” In addition to Dublin’s location at the intersection of two interstates, the City also has an award- winning Business Toolkit to assist with the attraction, retention, and expansion of businesses.