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Da Vinci in search of suggested names for tech hub
Last week, the Da Vinci Charter Academy Advisory Board began soliciting suggested names for its upcoming “Tech Hub,” which is scheduled to break ground this summer, be constructed over roughly a year-and-a-half and open in 2022-23.
The completed Tech Hub building will stand at 14,707 square-feet on the blacktop of the Valley Oak Campus in East Davis, which houses Da Vinci along with the district’s Children Center. The $16.4 million project is being funded through Measure M, a local school facilities bond that voters approved by a 74.5 percent margin in 2018, and partly through $9 million in Career Technical Education grants received by the district last year.
Share alike? Baby, you can drive my car
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Even in Davis, it seems, we\’re all in favor of a little competition, even if one councilwoman did declare the other day that she\’d rather have folks consume their burgers at In-N-Out instead of Ikedas.
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Well, thanks to my friend Downtown Steve, I have now been made aware of an interesting new business that soon may wish to come to town to do battle with the favorite child of the Davis City Council, Zipcar.
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Yes, according to highly placed sources in this case Ari Levy of Bloomberg News, appearing in the Chron “RelayRides, a startup backed by Google Inc.\’s venture arm and August Capital, is opening up shop in San Francisco, letting the city\’s residents make money from their cars by sharing them with strangers.”