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Regional Website: www.Tri-Valley Convention & Visitors Bureau
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Danville Dublin Livermore Pleasanton San Ramon |
The Tri-Valley Region is composed
of three adjacent valleys — Amador, Livermore and San Ramon —
that parallel the San Francisco Bay shoreline. The region has
a rich history as Northern California’s oldest wine region and
the location for silent movies starring Abbott and Costello and
early westerns. This character is still evident in many of its
cities’ historic downtowns.
The Tri-Valley region lies
in front of the ridge on the skyline, in this view from Mt. Diablo (looking South).
The Tri-Valley region is known as the northern end of the
Silicon Valley, with a large number of of high-tech companies
choosing to call its central location home. Quick The region is
bisected by I-580 and I-680, with BART connecting commuters to
the rest of the Bay Area..
The region is home to the Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory and the Sandia National Laboratories/California.
These two laboratories anchor the region’s new State
designated iHub, called i-GATE, that supports the
development of alternative energy, advanced transportation
and clean technology.
Pleasanton’s Hacienda Business Park hosts businesses such as
Cooper Companies, Oracle Systems, Safeway, Robert Half
International, E-Loan, and Automatic Data Processing while
San Ramon’s Bishop Ranch Business Park is home to
corporations such as AT&T, Chevron and Audatex North
America.
The trade, transportation and utilities sector accounts for
the highest number of jobs in the region (30,062 jobs),
closely followed the by professional and business services
(29,512 jobs).
In 2010, the Tri-Valley had 13.4% of the East Bay’s
population and 12.8% of its labor force; the East Bay’s
lowest unemployment rate of 6.3%; 16.9% of the businesses;
20.1% of the jobs.
The valley’s warm days and cool nights create ideal
conditions for producing the intense flavor desired in wine
grapes.
The region had the East Bay’s second highest average annual
average temperature of 57.9 degrees, the second highest
“high temperature” of 105.8 and the second lowest
precipitation (16.9 total inches). Rain and fog were
experienced on 18% of the days. 
Livermore on the left, Pleasanton in the center, Dublin to the
right and San Ramon, the right front.
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