Our mission is to advance the economic vitality of greater Irvine.
Our core initiatives are to be a CATALYST for local economic growth, to be a CHAMPION for the business community with all levels of government, and to CONVENE greater Irvine stakeholders.
Our passion is to help your business thrive.
Hoag Orthopedic Institute (HOI) celebrated its 10th anniversary in November. In 10 years, HOI has grown into the largest orthopedic hospital on the west coast, earning many national accolades affirming its high quality of care. HOI has performed more than 148,00 procedures since 2010 and is the highest volume provider of joint replacements in California for the past eight years. Established in 2010 through a unique partnership between Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian and a group of visionary Orange County orthopedic physicians, HOI is a specialty hospital that focuses exclusively on orthopedics. In its 10 year history, HOI has grown to include a specialty hospital in Irvine, two medical clinics in Orange County, and ambulatory surgery centers located in Newport Beach, Mission Viejo, and Orange. Most recently HOI has expanded operations to Los Angeles County with a fourth ambulatory surgery center in Marina del Rey. Four Orange County orthopedic surgeons, Carlos Prietto, M.D., James Cailloutte, M.D., Robert Gorab, M.D., and Alan Beyer, M.D, were the principal forces to organize and build HOI. In 10 years, HOI’s medical staff has grown to more than 80 orthopedic surgeons and a medical staff of more than 300. “Every single employee and physician contributed to HOI’s incredible patien...
Read More
One hundred of the nation’s top health care systems, representing thousands of hospitals in communities across the U.S., have come together with an urgent plea for all Americans – mask up, because wearing a facemask is our best chance at slowing the surging COVID-19 pandemic now. More than 11.5 million Americans have tested positive for the virus – including an additional one million in just the past week – leading to nearly 250,000 deaths. The current trends are daunting and frightening. If the nation stays on its current course, hospital leaders are increasingly concerned that more healthcare facilities will be overwhelmed as shortages of healthy caregivers make it difficult to handle a rapidly increasing number of patients. Unfortunately, this is already happening in parts of our country. The next several months will be critical. Though there has been positive news about vaccine development, no one knows when those vaccines will be ready for widespread use. In the meantime, everyone must remain vigilant, take precautions, and follow public health orders. The country has reached a tipping point. The power to do what is right is now in the hands of everyone everywhere. Beginning today, a public service message will run in The New York Times, USA Today...
Read More
(Orange County Patch) Restaurants in Orange County will soon be eligible to apply for a $1,000 outdoor dining grant, according to the Orange County Board of Supervisors. As winter arrives across Orange County towns and the weather turns cooler, outdoor dining could become problematic for restaurants not ready for the conditions. The new OC Restaurant Outdoor Dining Grant program will serve to implement or expand Orange County restaurants' outdoor dining capacity amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Nowhere has the outdoor dining in Orange County been more successful than with Laguna Beach's Promenade on Forest. Wildly successful since its inception over the summer, the fast action of the Laguna Beach City Council and Chamber of Commerce has grown into an area where visitors and residents can enjoy dining outdoors. Still, other restaurants are in need of tents, heaters, and lighting that this new grant may offer. Over the summer, the Laguna Beach City Council voted to extend The Promenade on Forest through Jan. 31, 2021. The Promenade on Forest: Shopping, Dining, Art, and You! is an outdoor dining, display and art performance area that creates a safe and exciting pedestrian-only experience on Forest Avenue from Coast Highway to Glenneyre Street in Downtown Laguna Beach. During Tuesday's Board Meeting, th...
Read More
(Orange Country Business Journal) Amazon has made its largest reported real estate investment in Orange County, for a site in the Irvine Spectrum area that’s expected to see development of a new distribution facility. The e-commerce giant, which has been on a buying and leasing spree that’s added more than 1.5 million square feet of industrial space to its local portfolio in the past two years, recently closed on a 31-acre site in Irvine formerly belonging to the motion and control division of aerospace firm Parker-Hannifin. Amazon paid $112.5 million for the vacant site, property records indicate. It’s the most paid to date by the company in Orange County and brings the company’s local spending to more than $175 million in the past two months. It’s also the top reported non-residential land sale seen in OC this year. The site is expected to serve as the third planned ground-up industrial facility built specifically for Amazon in the county, sources tell the Business Journal. City filings also indicate a logistics facility is in the works. Jeff Chiate and Rick Ellison in the Irvine office of Cushman & Wakefield represented both Parker-Hannifin and Amazon in the deal; brokers declined to comment on the transaction. Amazon’s new purchase is for exces...
Read More.jpg)
.png)
.png)
