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Kings County EDC Director Lance Lippincott will be joining the City of Fresno Economic Development Department.

To showcase the Hanford manufacturing plant, Faraday Future (FF) invited Mayor Diane Sharp to tour the facility this week.

HANFORD — After overcoming its financial shakeups, electric car manufacturer Faraday Future has been restructured and is ready to start rolling out vehicles within a year. The company gave Hanford Mayor Francisco Ramirez a tour of the manufacturing facility on Monday and he says the turnaround has been astounding and has the potential to not only bring new jobs to the city, but to change the economy for years to come. “Not only is this $1 billion of funding, but they said this is the very beginning of the technology rush here in Hanford — it’s going to be huge,” Ramir...

Avenal gets new economic development director County planner Kao Nou Yang has relocated to the community of Avenal to become their Community/Economic Development Director and likely stir things up for the better. Kao says she is excited about the potential this low income Kings County city has, including plans for new housing, retail projects and energy development. Among the projects she is working on: — looking to attract new solar and wind companies to the city’s vast and varied landscape including to land in the city limits east of I-5. She also is starting to work with Chevron ...