Located in the heart of Southern California's "Technology Coast" and Orange County, Irvine is renowned for its dynamic business environment. The City also boasts a reputation as one of the nation's safest communities, has access to a highly educated and skilled labor force, offers a full-range of housing opportunities, excellent climate, and a wealth of life-style amenities. Irvine is home to many technology coast industrial clusters including medical device manufacturers, bio-medical companies, computer software and hardware companies, and automotive design firms.

Building on this competitive base, the City's economic development programs encompass several services that provide a direct benefit to existing Irvine businesses as well as prospective businesses looking to expand or relocate to Irvine. These services include courtesy pre-filing meetings for building permits; business development workshops; outreach to retailers, manufacturers and brokerage firms; business attraction marketing; international business development networking; industrial development bond financing and small business loan guarantees.

This site links to the Irvine Chamber of Commerce's Destination Irvine and the California Environmental Protection Agency's CalGOLD sites. Destination Irvine provides another valuable information asset to businesses located in or interested in relocating to Irvine. CalGOLD provides businesses with information on permits and other requirements of California agencies at all levels of government including addresses, telephone numbers and links to agency Internet web pages.