Why Phoenix DeVentures’ CEO chose Morgan Hill to launch and grow his business

Silicon Valley, home of the globally competitive tech giants, is known for its major influence over the lives of Americans from its expansive explorations into the fields of sustainability, transportation, biotech, and media. Here, the global networks of large firms, along with their smaller subcontractors and suppliers, form the amalgamation of talent that drives the Valley’s growth, fueled by the rampant entrepreneurship found in every corner of the region.

Why workforce development is essential to a strong manufacturing sector

In today’s rapidly evolving global economy, workforce development has become a critical pillar for ensuring the growth and sustainability of various industries. Nowhere is this more evident than in the manufacturing sector. Historically, manufacturing has been the backbone of many economies, and even as automation and globalization reshape the landscape, it remains a key driver of employment, innovation, and economic prosperity. However, to maintain this critical role, manufacturing needs a skilled workforce — one that is prepared to meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.

A century of winemaking tradition in Morgan Hill

Discover how a family's century-old winemaking philosophy has stood the test of time in California's evolving landscape.

A glimpse of the Morgan Hill mayor's 2025 plans.

"Morgan Hill’s economic outlook for 2025 is promising, in great part because of the previous efforts that positioned it as an attractive place for health care, advanced manufacturing and tourism industries."

Structures 2024 - Deal of the Year - Cochrane Technology Center

Cochrane Technology Center is being honored as the deal of the year for the development of a 5-building Class A industrial campus located at Cochrane Road and Depaul Drive in Morgan Hill. 

The center offers flexibility with the buildings ranging in size from 74,000 square feet to 139,000 square feet. This offers the ability to accommodate a wide range of users with different space needs. 

Why companies choose Morgan Hill, a global manufacturing hub in Silicon Valley

Morgan Hill, a small yet strategically located city in Silicon Valley, has become a prime destination for global, regional and local companies seeking to establish their manufacturing operations.

Once known for its agricultural roots, the city has rapidly transformed into a high-tech manufacturing hub, attracting over one hundred manufacturers including several multinational corporations who have discovered the benefits of locating in Morgan Hill.

Here's what's new in downtown Morgan Hill

The Business Journal's List this week enumerates the biggest non-retail employers in Morgan Hill, largely a mix of manufacturers, construction firms and high-tech companies. But this 45,000-resident city in southern Santa Clara Count also boasts a pedestrian-friendly, tourist attracting downtown that has some buildings that are more than a century old. And that area appears to be thriving.

Morgan Hill carves industrial path to bring more advanced manufacturing to city

A few minutes north of Morgan Hill’s downtown stand five new buildings in a 410,000-square-foot campus called the Butterfield 5 Tech Park. It’s everything the city of Morgan Hill wants: new industrial space for a region that’s hungry for it, buildings that are suitable for advanced manufacturing and life-sciences uses with key amenities like numerous electric-vehicle charging stations.

Matthew Mahood reflects on a year spent as Morgan Hill's economic development director

Matthew Mahood has been leading Morgan Hill's economic development efforts for a little more than a year now. In some ways, it was a big change from Mahood's last job. For nine years, he had been CEO of the Silicon Valley Organization, now known as the San Jose Chamber of Commerce.

Morgan Hill’s industrial space grows with addition of large office park

Morgan Hill got an influx of industrial space with the completion of a 500,000 square-foot office park. 

In place of a former tree farm and fallowed agricultural fields, stand five newly constructed, 50-foot-tall buildings, along Highway 101. 

The office park, called Cochrane Technology Center, is a joint venture between global real estate developer Trammell Crow Co. and CBRE Investment Management. The site is vacant, with CBRE seeking potential tenants while the buildings await final city occupancy permits and power from PG&E. 

Morgan Hill is growing up but wants to maintain its small-town charm.

Morgan Hill has been operating with the same economic blueprint since 2017.

The city has long been known as an emerging rural town with land and open space available for development. In recent years, city officials have focused on providing opportunities for its residents, old and new, to be able to work in town.

According to the city’s office of economic development, more than 75% of Morgan Hill’s nearly 50,000 residents leave the city to go to their jobs, usually heading north. In order to make the city less of a bedroom community, officials are focused on growing and providing space for four industries within its borders: industrial and advanced manufacturing, hospitality, retail, and health care.

Made in Morgan Hill: What do the city's biggest companies do?

Morgan Hill isn’t home to any “Big Tech” titans. It doesn’t have multibuilding office campuses. And it isn’t the place where tens of thousands of Silicon Valley employees work each day.

At least, not yet.

What Morgan Hill does have is a growing industrial and manufacturing sector, as well as a few companies that long ago made the city in the southern part of Santa Clara County home. Here are the biggest companies operating in the city