ELLS Catches Up On The State of The City

City of Santa Ana attracting clean, energy-efficient companies

Even as it strips millions of dollars from its budget and grapples with biting unemployment, Santa Ana has put a new emphasis on attracting clean, energy-efficient companies.

“We want to position Santa Ana as the clean-tech Silicon Valley of the future,” Mayor Miguel Pulido said in his remarks to the almost 300 business and community leaders gathered for his State of the City speech on June 3rd at the Double Tree Hotel.

He also touched on subjects that ranged from downtown parking to the city’s changing demographics to a stalled skyscraper project known as One Broadway Plaza.

He closed his speech going back to the green jobs of the future, saying he sees “tremendous growth and opportunity” there.