Corporate Relocation

Think you know Bakersfield? Our city is a popular destination for conventions, sporting events, and visitors from all over the world. Bakersfield has so many unique features, the Bakersfield Convention and Visitors Bureau adopted the slogan, “More to Explore!” Let’s see how well you do. Old timers and new arrivals, feel free to test your knowledge of Col. Baker’s Field.

Visitors come from all over for the “Bakersfield Experience” ­—but what do they really think about it all?

People assume that when your town name is associated with a type of music, it’s the only claim to fame you’ve got when it comes to tunes. Yes, we are the Bakersfield (as in the Bakersfield Sound), but we’re a city that has grown to not only listen to all types of music, but cultivate them, as well. For example...

While some government agencies have mottled messages about their key goal, the Kern Economic Development Corporation does not.

Let me begin with three questions:

1. Are you a member of a business association, professional organization, or service club?

2. If you said yes, do your associations, organizations, and clubs have statewide or regional meetings?

3. If you said yes, how many of those statewide or regional meetings have been held in Bakersfield?

Dancing fountains in the plaza that fronts the Rabobank Arena. The sounds of rushing water along the new Mill Creek Linear Park. The Kern River actually flowing with water.

In each instance, the presence of water is seen as a way to enhance our quality of life in Bakersfield...

Why are some cities more attractive to new residents and businesses? Is it because they have fancy slogans? Slick marketing campaigns? Lower taxes?

Those of us who live and work in Kern County know just how dynamic this area is. Sure, we’ve long been heralded as a leader in the oil and agriculture markets, but our county is home to a diverse group of industries that has grown to include renewable natural resources, logistics, corporate headquarters, food processing, and healthcare services...

Maybe it was the exhilaration you felt on the swings, or the eagerness with which you climbed up to a slide. Possibly it was the way a jungle gym became a battleship or fabulous mansion. But whatever it was, it’s a feeling or memory only made at a park. Parks play a big role in our lives and seem to always be there for us...but how?

Once only futuristic elements of popular culture, robotics and cutting edge automation are now welcomed realities in the American economy. For employers, that is. But what will be their effect upon jobs? Some fear workers will be sacrificed on the altar of efficiency, replaced with quieter, subservient, more diligent units which don’t start unions, clock in late, file workers’ comp claims, or take vacations...