The City of Morgan Hill Economic Development team is inviting our business leaders to collaborate with the City and County to help us spread messages about the importance of staying at least 6 feet apart from other people and wearing a mask to slow the spread of COVID-19.
There is a new art gallery in Morgan Hill with a big vision. Colibri Art and Framing, has been transformed to include a new art gallery. The gallery features local Bay Area artists including, Jim Conway (Morgan Hill), Abigail Dunnivan (Gilroy), Nancy Takaichi (San Jose), Clark Mitchell (Petaluma), Hannah Skoonberg (East Bay) and artists from other parts of the country, including Aaron Cordell Johnson (Idaho) and Sara Sedwick (Oregon). All exhibiting artists were handpicked by Gallery Director Ellie Honl and are distinguished by a professional commitment to their artwork, national honors and awards, and inclusion in public and private collections.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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