LA Mayor Garcetti, Sen. Hertzberg Join with CSUN Students to Promote Measure M

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and California State Senator Bob Hertzberg visited the University Student Union at California State University, Northridge on Thursday, Nov. 3 to rally with students in support of Measure M, the ballot measure to increase public transportation investment in Los Angeles County. Garcetti and Hertzberg were joined by Associated Students Vice […]

Measure M can thaw L.A. County’s glacial traffic: Guest commentary

By David Fleming and Gilbert Ivey POSTED: 10/28/16, 12:42 PM PDT | Without action, Los Angeles traffic is about to get a lot worse. More productive hours of the day will be wasted on jammed highways. The snail’s pace of delivering goods and services will continue to drive business away. The spirit of even the […]

Pasadena, LA County are booming. So what has businesses worried?

By Kevin Smith, San Gabriel Valley Tribune POSTED: 10/25/16, 6:33 PM PDT | Brittany Dodd, left, CBRE senior associate of workplace strategy, and Kim Sidders, people operations coordinator at Bolton & Company, discuss millenials in the workplace during the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce’s annual Pasadena Business and Economic Summit at the University Club in Pasadena […]

2017 BizFed Officer Nominations – Open until Oct. 31st!

Consider nominating yourself, and/or nominating a key BizFed member – as a 2017 BizFed Officer and member of our Executive Committee! If you are interested in a leadership role – or would like to nominate a BizFed member for a position — please contact Judi Erickson, judi.erickson@bizfed.org, by Monday, October 31. (Positions are open to […]

Los Angeles Convention Center reports a record $8.1 million in profit

By: LA Times Hugo Martin The Los Angeles Convention Center, once a financial drain on the city, reported a record $8.1 million in profit for the latest fiscal year thanks to a surge in conventions and trade shows. Profit for the fiscal year that ended June 30 is nearly triple the $2.8 million in profit reported in the previous […]

BizFed supports Beutner/Kantor proposal to reboot DWP

While BizFed has not taken a position on the size of the DWP rate increase itself, the BizFed Board voted to support four key solutions outlined in the op-ed linked below. BizFed is therefore opposed to any additional money from rate payers getting allocated to the City’s General Fund. BizFed is also closely following the LA City […]