The Ventura County Economic Development Association first convened in 1950 ago as an organization to support the major industries of the day – agribusiness, oil-and-gas development and manufacturing. That formula worked well for VCEDA for decades. But the organization struggled to adapt to the slow-growth economics of the 1990s, the passage of SOAR land-use restrictions and a decline in manufacturing that…
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