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July 20, 2020

Morgan Hill Supports Businesses and Community with Launch of Place-Branding Grant

Morgan Hill announced a Place-Branding Partnership Opportunity designed to support businesses and community through the COVID-19 pandemic. This is one of several business resiliency efforts supporting the City’s economic recovery plan to help with the beautification of outdoor dining spaces, activating vacant store fronts with temporary art, community announcements or businesses that may have lost their leases; and creating interesting ‘place-making’ street activations that will create a welcoming, fun and interesting environment.

June 26, 2020

Morgan Hill Approves an Economic Recovery Plan

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of Morgan Hill has responded by developing an Economic Development Recovery plan.

On May 29, 2020, the City Manager and City Attorney announced actions exercising their discretion to ease enforcement of certain City regulations in order to encourage economic activity and to speed up recovery from the shelter in place orders.

June 18, 2020

Urban Land Institute conducts a Technical Assistance Panel in Morgan Hill

Established in 1936, the Urban Land Institute (ULI) is a non-profit education and research institute with over 45,000 members across the globe-2,200 in the Bay Area. The mission of ULI is to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating sustainable thriving communities worldwide. ULI has had a long history of providing unbiased, pragmatic solutions and best practice advice on land use and sustainable development.

One feature of ULI is its Technical Assistance Panels (TAP). ULI’s Technical Assistance Panels have helped sponsors identify strategic, practical solutions for the most challenging issues facing today’s communities through cultivating a multi-disciplinary team of local experts from ULI’s membership, who, together, collaborate to address a challenge.

May 04, 2020

The Little Town That Could: Morgan Hill Responds to the COVID Crisis

The coronavirus pandemic has impacted virtually every community in California, and the City of Morgan Hill is no exception. Yet when the crisis came to this bustling small town in south Silicon Valley, city leaders and business owners joined forces to mitigate the disaster. While local businesses pivoted to meet dire needs of healthcare workers around the state and the nation, the city itself took quick action to blunt the worst economic effects of the crisis.

March 26, 2020

Morgan Hill Business Impact Survey Launched

The City of Morgan Hill, the Chamber of Commerce and Visit Morgan Hill have created a COVID-19 Business Impact Survey to better serve our local community..

March 17, 2020

Economic Snapshot: Morgan Hill Sales Tax receipts decline, Housing market slows

The City reviews lots of data on the local economy and this brief snap shot provides the most recent trends impacting Morgan Hill.

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