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Wanted: California Companies to Bring Jobs to Austin

AUSTIN-Next week, a 40-member Austin delegation heads to California to recruit business as was done in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Chamber officials, real estate and construction companies and the University of Texas will be making the pitch.

By Tim Green | Updated on February 20, 2002

AUSTIN-About 40 members of the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, a good number of them real estate and construction companies, are dusting off their recruiting tools and heading to California’s Silicon Valley next week.

They’ll meet with 62 companies during the two-day visit, many of them companies with existing Austin operations such as chipmakers Intel Corp. and AMD Inc. “We want to know the things we need to be thinking about to help them expand in Austin,” Saralee Tiede, a chamber spokeswoman, tells GlobeSt.com.

The chamber is seeking to increase the number of jobs in Austin and diversify the city’s economy. Companies expecting a visit include 15 in semiconductor companies, 11 in biotechnology, nine in software, six in computers and peripherals, six in digital entertainment and five in technology commercialization.

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