REPORTS AND INFOGRAPHICS
The Initiative began with a the first coordinated effort to collect direct data from manufacturers in the four largest cities in the Bay Area: San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, and Fremont, on the topics of workforce, business practices, supply chain connections, real estate challenges, and most importantly, to uncover the opportunities for Bay Area cities to collaborate. In 2017, we partnered with JLL to publish Bay Area Manufacturing is Here to Stay, an infographic that gives an overview of manufacturing in the entire nine-county Bay Area.
MANUFACTURING TOOLKITS FOR CITIES
These toolkits are how-to-guides. They are meant to give city staff, policy makers, and partner organizations concrete tools and strategies to support manufacturers on two topics. The first toolkit covers Manufacturing Promotion and Engagement and the strategies in it can be used to increase interest and excitement around manufacturing. The second focuses on Industrial Real Estate and the strategies strategies it describes can be used to grow industrial real estate, protect it, and keep places to make affordable.
Promotion Toolkit Links
MANUFACTURING PROMOTION AND ENGAGEMENT TOOLKIT: Strategies to reach out to your manufacturers, workforce, and your community to sustain and grow your city’s manufacturing ecosystem.
Toolkit Links:
- Create a Manufacturing Liaison Position Within City Government
Case Studies:
Made in Baltimore: Baltimore, MD
Made in Baltimore program link
Economic Development Specialist — Industrial Sector: Hayward, CA
Other examples:
None
- Streamline Permitting and Regulatory Processes for Manufacturers
Case Studies:
Aspen Business Navigator: Aspen, CO (no longer live)
Manufacturing in Denver: Denver, CO
Fremont’s Open Counter: Fremont, CA
Other examples:
New York City Waterfront Navigator
- Partner with Manufacturing-Oriented Development and Advocacy Organizations
Case Studies:
Jane Addams Resource Corporation: Chicago, IL
Silicon Valley Manufacturing Roundtable: South Bay, CA
Other examples:
Association of Manufacturers Bay Area
- Actively Promote the Manufacturing Capacities of Your City
Case Studies:
How to Develop a Locally Made Brand Platform: San Francisco, CA
Other examples:
- Utilize Municipal and B2B Purchasing Power to Support Local Manufacturing
Case Studies:
Made in Oakland Design Expo: Oakland, CA
SF Biz Connect: San Francisco, CA
City Based Manufacturers or Businesses or Project Area Subcontractors Bid Incentive: Chicago, IL
Other examples:
Manufacturing bid incentives are common at the state level.
- Use City-Sponsored Retail to Connect to the Manufacturing Sector
Case Studies:
Made in Philadelphia Markets: Philadelphia, PA
Other examples:
SFMade Week-San Francisco City Hall Selling Event
- Bring the Public into Manufacturing Spaces
Case Studies:
St. Louis Makes: St. Louis, MO
2017 MFG Day Sonoma County: Sonoma County, CA
Other examples:
Oakland School District Youth Tours
Manufacturing Day Tour of Bay Area Circuits in Fremont
- Celebrate Manufacturing Neighborhoods
Case Studies:
Alameda Point and Spirits Alley: Alameda, CA
Other examples:
- Support Shared Manufacturing Workspaces
Case Studies:
The Maker Lab, Chicago Public Library: Chicago, IL
Other examples:
Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI)
Real Estate Toolkit Links
INDUSTRIAL REAL ESTATE TOOLKIT Strategies to preserve industrial space, grow and modernize building stock, and maintain affordability in your city’s industrial real estate.
Toolkit Links:
- Maintain an Inventory of Industrial Lands
Case Studies:
Hayward Industrial Technology and Innovation Corridor Baseline Profile: Hayward, CA
Philadelphia Industrial Land Use Atlas: Philadelphia, PA
- Utilize Zoning to Designate and Protect Industrial Areas
Case Studies:
The West Berkeley Plan: Berkeley, CA
Eastern Neighborhoods Plan: San Francisco, CA
False Creek Flats Master Plan: Vancouver, BC
- Enforce Existing Industrial Designations
Case Studies:
Code Enforcement Division, Planning Department: San Francisco, CA
Special Garment Center District: New York, NY
- Zone for Artisan Manufacturing
Case Studies:
Artisan Ordinance: Nashville, TN
Fabrication Zone: Somerville, MA
- Allow Other Commercial Uses to Cross-Subsidize New Industrial Construction
Case Studies:
Inclusionary PDR Zoning: San Francisco, CA
- Prioritize Infrastructure Improvements
Case Studies:
Lit San Leandro: San Leandro, CA
Warm Springs/South Fremont Community Plan: Fremont, CA
International Boulevard Bus Rapid Transit (BRT): Oakland, CA
- Incentivize Rehabilitation of Legacy Industrial Spaces
Case Studies:
Circle City Industrial Complex: Indianapolis, IN
- Designate City- or Other Publicly-Owned Property for Protected and Subsidized Manufacturing Space
Case Studies:
Brooklyn Navy Yard: Brooklyn, NY
Philadelphia’s Keystone Opportunity Zone: Philadelphia, PA
- Engage with Non-Profit Industrial Development Organizations
Case Studies:
Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center: Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS
In 2016 the Initiative collaborated with the Urban Manufacturing Alliance to create a webinar titled How to Balance Cannabis Production Within Your Industrial Community at the request of our partner cities. The webinar featured Tyler Bump, a Senior Economic Planner for the City of Portland, and Jill Jennings Golich, Deputy Director of Community Planning and Development at the City and County of Denver and David Mendoza, a Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Policy and Innovation at the Seattle Mayor’s Office.
CONTACT
415-408-5605 x 6
bayareamfg@sfmade.org
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San Francisco, CA 94107
The Bay Area Urban Manufacturing Initiative is a project of SFMade.