Gilroy Economic Development Corporation

Welcome the Gilroy Economic Development Corporation's website.

This website serves as a portal for your business to locate and expand your knowledge of the City of Gilroy which is located in the Silicon Valley Region of California. Where are we located?

Doing Business in Gilroy, California

Gilroy is strategically located in southern Silicon Valley just south of San Jose, California with excellent access to the entire Bay Area of California. Over the past decade, Gilroy has been transitioning from an agricultural economy into a light industrial and services based economy.

Considered a major center for regional shopping, Gilroy offers three large retail complexes with a vast array of products and services. Gilroy's retail market share attracts well over 250,000 shoppers and taxable retail sales in 2006 and 2007 were over $1.4 billion.

The City of Gilroy, California

Gilroy is well positioned to meet the demand of the high growth industries in the twenty-first century. By being strategically located between the fertile Salinas Valley, known worldwide as "America's Salad Bowl," and "Silicon Valley", the most technologically advanced region in the world, Gilroy offers the right location to connect and conduct business with multiple major national and international businesses.

With the convenience that a Gilroy California location provides them, many of our businesses tap into multiple market segments without the need to have employees travel or pay high shipping costs on their products. As you research further you will find that Gilroy California is located at a key economic gateway between San Francisco, the Central Valley, and Los Angeles.

Business locations are plentiful and available in all building and lot sizes. Our newest Business Park, the McCarthy Ranch Business Park, offers full-service industrial sites up to ninety-five acres

The City of Gilroy is business-friendly and offers a wide range of incentives including fee-elimination programs for retail, industrial, commercial, and downtown development.

To encourage the continued revitalization of Gilroy downtown business core, the City Council recently extended the current fee elimination program until 2010, which continues to spur additional development in the area.

Gilroy is at the forefront of the green technology field and will serve as the crossroads into the foreseeable future.

We encourage you to dig deeper with the data provided on this site and then contact us so we can show you why.

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