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Parris, Garcetti attend local international business roundtable

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Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris joined recently his counterpart in Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, and County Supervisor Michael Antonovich for the “Welcome to LA: Gateway to USA” conference. The event hosted a number of high-level international business delegations, including those from China, Japan, Korea and Mexico.

Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Business Federation and the Los Angeles Business Council, the event was said to be a precursor to President Barack Obama’s “Select USA Summit” conducted this week in Washington, D.C., in demonstrating the county’s vast resources and opportunities for international investment.

“The city of Lancaster, with sights set squarely on becoming a Net-Zero city, openly embraces innovation, growth and business,” Parris said. “As such, we’re proud to the North American home of the BYD Coach and Bus manufacturing facility.” Parris also highlighted some of the important attributes which, he said, continue to attract investors to Lancaster and to the Antelope Valley in general.

“As a region, Los Angeles County and the Antelope Valley have an unbeatable combination of technology, markets, intellectual capital and diversity,” Parris said. “There is truly no other place in the United States which has the vast resources available right here.”

The event included regional leaders in real estate, manufacturing, higher education, and entertainment /technology who gathered to discuss the expansion of business opportunities in L.A. County. Besides Parris, Garcetti and Antonovich, other officials participating included Los Angeles City Councilman Curren Price, BYD President Stella Li, U.S. Department of Commerce Assistant Secretary of Global Markets Arun Kumar, and Kish Rajan, director of the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development. Also present were Russell Goldsmith, CEO of City National Bank; Larry Kurzweil, president and COO of Universal Studios Hollywood; Ted Craver, CEO of Edison International; and Stephen Cheung, director of International Trade for the Port of Los Angeles.

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