Placer Business News and Updates

For anyone who regularly sits in traffic on Highway 65 near the Galleria, another year of waiting for improvements is hardly welcome news. But that's what nearly happened, even after Placer County secured $25 million in federal funding to help address congestion along the…

Matt Click, executive director of the Placer County Transportation Planning Agency (PCTPA), has had the same conversation in Sacramento more times than he can count. PCTPA's executive director shows up asking for state and federal transportation dollars, and the answer comes…

For decades, the math that drove Placer County's growth was straightforward. Land on the periphery was less expensive than closer to the urban core. Infrastructure costs were manageable when spread across large new subdivisions. Builders could offer a product, a house with…

California wants more housing. It wants shorter commutes, stronger regional economies, and communities where working families can afford to live. Yet many of the policies intended to protect communities can also make development more expensive, more complicated, and more time…

Placer County has spent the last two decades building something most California counties would envy. Strong schools. A retail environment that is thriving while malls elsewhere close. A deepening relationship with the Tahoe region that draws international tourism. A business…

Most residents experience Placer County's growth through the things that are easy to see: new subdivisions, new schools, more traffic at familiar intersections. What is harder to see is the work already underway to keep the transportation system ahead of that growth, rather…

Clifton Taylor is president of Taylor Builders, a land development and investment company based in Roseville. He was one of PBA's earliest supporters, signing on before the organization had a public track record. He sat down with PBA to talk about why he made that bet,…