After missing out on this year’s Enterprise Zone program, the city of Needles continues to push for tax breaks in order to attract businesses away from nearby Arizona. With Assembly Bill X3 82, the city has put together enterprise zone legistlation that would establish several key benefits for the region.

Marj Dario, from the Needles Deser Star, had this to say about the development: “The group effort started when those enterprise zone applicants not selected this year came together to form a coalition. Those applicants, plus an auto plant in Fremont, have proposed an initiative titled “100,000 New Jobs for Californians (11 New Enterprise Zones) which requests special one-time enterprise zone designations be granted.”

Along with Needles, other cities that joining the coalition are: Anaheim, El Monte, Escondido, Fremont, Gardena, Los Angeles County, Madera County, Monrovia, Needles, Oxnard and Wasco.

Tags: Enterprise Zones, needles

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