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Promenade Construction update The Promenade in Temecula, a one-million square-foot regional shopping center, has broken ground on a new open-air expansion, which will be built between Macy’s and Edwards Cinemas. The expansion will feature 126,000 square feet of upscale retailers and restaurants in a main street setting featuring fountains an outside fireplace and shade trees. Other pleasing amenities include a remodeled Plaza that will feature a children’s interactive fountain, a built in stage for entertainment, as well as a lawn area! The expansion will also include the construction of two new multi-level parking structures which will serve customers visiting both the existing mall and the new lifestyle center. The first of the two parking structures opened in May 2008. The parking structure is a five level structure that features over 900 parking spaces as well as elegant lobbies adorned with chandleries. As a courtesy to Macy’s guest, free valet parking is available at Macy’s with proof of purchase from Macy’s. The first retailers committed to the new open-air component at The Promenade in Temecula include PF Changs China Bistro, Coldwater Creek, Pottery Barn and Williams-Sonoma “Fantastic retailers and restaurants are coming to our open-air expansion at The Promenade in Temecula because they know that the community is more than ready for their offerings,” according to Kenneth Lee, Vice President of Development, West Coast Commercial for Forest City Enterprises. “It will provide our growing community, their friends and families, and Temecula’s large visitor population, with a compelling place to spend time together, enjoying Temecula’s excellent weather and quality of life.” Five level parking garage located next to Edwards Cinema know open for the public. p10 Temecula Today | July 2008 Expansion project is under way at The Promenade. Between these two building will be a additional entrance connecting the new project to the existing shopping center. The entrance will lead shoppers to the center court and JCPenney entrance. Second parking garage under construction scheduled to open March 2009
Tricks to Get More Traffic to Your Website By Mike Caudill, DRIVEN Media Communications and VYP Media Chair Wanna know how to get more traffic to your company web site? Well, without getting too technical, there are a host of things you can do to make your web site more efficient. Today’s tip is pretty simple. Each page of your web site is being reviewed by the search engines out there on the internet. Examples of such search engines would of course be Google, Yahoo and Ask.com. The search engines deploy something called web crawlers that continually screen your company web site for updates and changes. When a change occurs, it’s noted with the search engine and increases your ranking, thus moving your web site up on the search lists. This is important because you want your customers or potential customers to see you before the competition! How do you do this? Just add more content to your web site on a routine basis. However, there is another small trick that will really maximize your exposure. Each page you create for your web site has a series of words that help the web crawler identify your site. These key words are what truly help elevate your exposure and ranking. The technical term is meta tabs, but for the purposes of this exercise…just call them key words. If you use your cursor (do this now) and right click on a web site, click the properties button. When the properties come up, click on view page source. Under page source you will see the word meta on the left side. Next to it are the key words that describe each and every page on your web site. Use our web site as an example, type in your web browser Rising Gas Prices Spark New Demand for 4-Day Workweeks By Marti Fisher, CalChamber Gasoline in California cost $4.63 per gallon this week, more than double the price of a year ago, according to the Energy Information Administration. In addition, traffic congestion is getting worse and Californians are increasingly looking for ways to clean up the environment. One strategy that would have a positive impact on household gas budgets, commuter congestion and the environment would be permitting employees to work alternative work schedules such as four 10-hour days rather than five eight-hour days in a week. Alternative Workweek California law allows an employer to implement alternative schedules for all employees in a specified work unit by following a series of steps, including holding a secret ballot election. Under current Labor Code 511 and following Industrial Welfare Commission wage orders, employers may institute alternative work schedules if two-thirds of affected employees agree to the arrangement by secret ballot. In moving to an alternative work schedule, however, an employer must carefully follow the rules so as to avoid being subjected to potential lawsuits. Water, Water, Water... Action Needs to be Taken Now – Both Governor and Local Assemblyman Agree California is facing a serious water crisis. After two years of below-average rainfall, snowmelt runoff and court-ordered water transfer restrictions, Governor Schwarzenegger has proclaimed a drought in California and is encouraging all of us to conserve water through the remainder of this year and into 2009. This crisis highlights the state’s need for a long-term solution to our water supply needs. It is more important that ever that the Legislature work with Governor Schwarzenegger to pass a comprehensive plan for the state’s water infrastructure that supplies the water we drink and fuels our farmers. That is why Governor Schwarzenegger is leading the effort in our Capitol to pass a water infrastructure plan. As part of his budget, he has proposed $11.8 billion to invest in water storage, Delta sustainability, water stewardship, conservation, and water quality improvement. Help Governor Schwarzenegger put into place a water plan for California that will keep our faucets flowing and our farmers growing food for generations to come. Take Action NOW – visit www.JoinArnold.com to email your legislators today and ask them to work with the Governor to solve California’s water challenges! California’s farmers and families cannot afford to wait any longer for a real solution! www.driveontheweb.com. When the site loads, right click on the screen, view page source and voila…it tells you the meta information. If you are the one making changes to your web site through a Content Management System or CMS, it will take you literally five minutes to add information to your meta tabs. If you don’t use a CMS, then forward this to your Web master and ask them to do this for you. It might cost, but it’s worth it. So, that’s today’s tech tip brought to you by the Young Valley Professionals. Next newsletter, tune in and we’ll give you five tips to keeping your car running smoothly! Each month the Chamber will be including an article from the Valley Young Professionals (VYP) committee. These tips and articles will be written by the VYPs from their business perspective and are meant to be useful and interesting to the entire TVCC membership. To learn more about VYP visit, www.TemeculaVYP.org More information about establishing an alternative workweek schedule is available in the CalChamber’s California Labor Law Digest and in Chapter 56, “Alternative Workweek Arrangements,” of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement field enforcement manual at www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Manual-Instructions.htm. Although the multi-step process can be challenging and cumbersome, it does present an opportunity for employers to implement 4/10 schedules to benefit their employees and their business. Flexible Workweek Legislation This year, many local chambers of commerce sponsored AB 2127 (Benoit; R-Bermuda Dunes), which would have permitted an individual employee in a non-union workplace to request, and the employer to grant, an alternative workweek schedule without going through the election process. More Information Information on how to implement an alternative work schedule in accordance with the current requirements is available on the CalChamber’s HR California website. Assemblyman Kevin Jeffries (R-Lake Elsinore) applauds Governor Schwarzenegger for signing an executive order declaring a drought and calling for concerted state action to conserve water and better coordinate efforts by local water districts and agencies to deal with water shortages. “I would like to thank the Governor for his continued focus on the current and long-term shortages of water in California. Two of the areas hit hardest by this drought are the Inland Empire and Northern San Diego County, both within my district. I welcome these efforts by the Governor to expedite the release of previously approved bond funds to local districts to aid in conservation, recycling, and groundwater storage efforts,” said Assemblyman Jeffries. San Diego County’s critical agriculture industry has also already been hard hit with increased water rates and a mandatory 30% cut in agricultural water usage. Jeffries commented, “as avocado, citrus, and grape growers are forced to stop farming by these drought restrictions, we will see these orchards and vineyards replaced by homes and other developments that will only use more water. We need to recognize that we are all in this water shortage together, and must work cooperatively to increase the supply of water in California so that we can preserve our economy and our way of life.” Temecula Today | July 2008 p11
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