City of Escondido

If you are looking for a one-of-a-kind gift for someone special this year, head to Escondido’s Historic Downtown District. Small businesses line Grand Avenue while even more open their doors to customers along the many side streets that cross this very walkable shopping strip.

City of Vista

“Our roads along the nearby coast are the most heavily trafficked bicycle routes in the world,” says Ryan Cady, CEO & President of Eliel, cycling apparel company based in Vista. “And Vista is a gateway to some of the best backcountry riding in the world.”

Carlsbad Life in Action

In the heart of Carlsbad’s commercial core, it’s easy to get lost among the sea of office and industrial buildings housing innovative companies performing life changing work. However, you’ll want to make it a point to take time to stop and experience the tasty goodness of the Carlsbad Gateway Center between Palomar Airport Road and Cannon Road.

City of Vista

In an effort to distinguish themselves from the crowd, many of today’s craft breweries are expanding their brands and looking beyond the beer. In Vista, Calif. — which is at the epicenter of San Diego County’s “Hops Highway” — several craft breweries have upped the competition ante by creating immersive experiences for their patrons — from golf to fantasy games to a German Bierhall.

Innovate 78

Thanksgiving officially kicks off the holiday season, and for many small businesses along the 78 Corridor, it also marks the start of the busiest and most impactful time of their fiscal year.

City of Escondido

When people talk about student readiness, they are usually referring to academic skills. At Orange Glen High School in Escondido, in addition to top academics, many students are graduating with practical skills too. For over 20 years, Orange Glen has offered culinary arts classes.

City of Escondido

In an unassuming building on Escondido Boulevard that still displays an old Radio Shack sign, new products and technologies are being imagined, designed, and built daily — from cutting edge devices for Alzheimer’s patients to futuristic defense technologies.

City of Vista

As various weather and natural events around the world are spurring greater attention to environmental monitoring, one Vista-based company Precision Measurement Engineering (PME) is answering the call by designing freshwater and oceanographic research devices for organizations all over the world.

City of Escondido

North County employs over 1.2 million workers in industries such as life science, telecommunications, software development, medical devices, sporting equipment, and so much more. Additionally, this job market keeps growing with 54% of the workforce in North County employed in the manufacturing sector, up 27% since 2012.

City of Vista

All across the country — as the craft and farm-to-table movement continues to grow — people are flocking to community farms, ranches, wineries, breweries and even aquaculture farms.

Carlsbad Life in Action

Carlsbad is an idyllic coastal city and home to more than 7,000 companies, including tourism, lifestyle, life sciences, medical devices, and technologies. Women owned businesses are also thriving here. Below, we take a look at three women who have carved their own business niche in Carlsbad.

City of Escondido

In honor of National Women’s Small Business Month, the City of Escondido salutes women entrepreneurs who are taking risks to pursue their passions while contributing to the regional economy, adding jobs to our city, as well as improving the quality of life for residents and visitors alike.

City of Vista

In 2013, a chance meeting between Whit Rigali and Samuel Chereskin in a North County bar would forever change their career paths, one that would lead to sustainable spirits. Here’s the rest of the story: Rigali, the bartender, wanted to create local craft spirits for other bartenders to use.

Carlsbad Life in Action

Carlsbad’s high quality of life and rich pool of skilled workers are attracting cutting-edge life sciences companies from other industry hubs.

City of Escondido

When you are lucky enough to do what you love, it’s especially great when you get to do it in a place you love too. Just ask Greg Spence, a lifetime gamer and wood-working hobbyist who turned his passion into a thriving business in his hometown of Escondido.

City of Vista

As startups continue to drive life sciences innovation, incubators across the nation will play an even more important role in accelerating promising science while helping to fuel the economy. These incubators offer temporary accommodations to risky startups that could, one day, develop the next breakthrough therapies for infectious diseases, cancer, diabetes, Alzhemers and more

City of Vista

Hans Haas has had a love affair with science since he was a kid growing up in San Diego’s North County. His infatuation with the science of beer began years later in 2008 when his wife bought him a home brewing kit off the internet.

City of Escondido

When life gives you lemons, why not trade them for grapes and make some wine? That’s what local entrepreneur and real estate investor Rodger Grove did.

Carlsbad Life in Action

The economic impact of San Diego County’s sports and active lifestyle industry was valued at $6.3 billion in 2017. Carlsbad has long been considered a key player in this industry with action sports manufacturing employment in Carlsbad being over 30 times the national average.

City of Vista

Two decades ago, an engineer named Dirk Soenksen started a small company he named Aperio (Latin for reveal) that would one day make significant contributions to the field of diagnostics. Today, this Vista-based company is a pioneer in digital pathology, an image-based environment for managing pathology information that originates by digitizing a glass slide that has a stained tissue specimen on it.