CALSTART Opens in Pasadena

4 November 1998

ADVISORY/CALSTART Opens Main Office and Advanced- Transportation Business Incubator in Pasadena

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    Open House to Feature Alternative-Fuel Vehicles
    and Technologies, Tours of Facility

    Good Photo Opportunities

WHAT:   CALSTART and the city of Pasadena hold an open-house reception 
        welcoming CALSTART, California's advanced-transportation-
        technologies consortium, to its new facility as part of 
        Pasadena's high-tech business cluster. Pasadena is now the 
        location of CALSTART's main office and one of its three 
        advanced-transportation-technology business incubators.

WHERE:  CALSTART 
        3360 E. Foothill Blvd. 
        Pasadena
        (between Sierra Madre Villa and Rosemead Boulevard)

WHEN:   Wednesday, Nov. 4
        4 p.m. -- reception and tours of CALSTART facility
        5 p.m. -- welcome and remarks

WHO:    -- Pasadena Mayor Chris Holden
        -- Michael J. Gage, president and chief executive officer, 
           CALSTART
        -- Rep. David Dreier (invited) 
        -- representatives of high-tech transportation firms

VISUALS:

Various leading-edge alternative-fuel vehicles, including Toyota's hybrid-electric Prius and new compressed-natural-gas (CNG) Camry, an all-electric water-delivery truck (built by ISE Research and operated by McKesson Water Co.), electric vehicles -- Amerigon's Reva and PIVCO's Th!nk. The new CALSTART facility is in the former Stuart Co.'s pharmaceutical plant, built by renowned architect Edward D. Stone. Tour of an advanced-transportation-technology business incubator complete with machine shop.

BACKGROUND:

Recruited by Pasadena to be part of its growing high-technology business cluster, CALSTART has opened its corporate headquarters and a business incubator for advanced transportation in the city. A nonprofit consortium of more than 200 companies worldwide, CALSTART is dedicated to the development, commercialization and implementation of transportation-technology solutions that promote economic growth and environmental quality. CALSTART and its business incubator (Project Hatchery) moved to Pasadena into the well-known former Stuart Co. pharmaceutical plant. Together with its technology development, implementation and industry-analysis activities, CALSTART now operates business incubators in Pasadena, Camarillo (at California State University, Channel Islands) and Alameda in Northern California.