ATTRACTIONS
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park
is located in the central Sierra Nevada of California. Yosemite is
internationally recognized for its spectacular granite cliffs,
waterfalls, clear streams, Giant Sequoia groves, and biological
diversity. It takes 3.5 hours to drive to the park from San
Francisco and about six hours from Los Angeles. Click Image to see
website
Hilmar Cheese Factory
Located in California's Central Valley, Hilmar Cheese Company is
the largest single-site cheese and whey products manufacturer in
the world. Specialized in the production of cheddar and American
cheese utilized by private label and national brand companies.
Hilmar Cheese Company, manufactures a wide range of whey protein
concentrates, whey protein hydrolysates. Click Image to see
website.
Castle Air Museum
Castle Air Museum is located
in Atwater, California and is one of the largest museums
displaying vintage aircraft in the western United States. The
museum opened in 1981, and displays 49 restored aircraft. The
outdoor museum covers 11 acres, and among the exhibit highlights
are a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, a Boeing B-52D Stratofortress, and
the massive, ten-engined Convair B-36, one of only four surviving
and the largest mass-produced piston aircraft in history. Click
Image to see website
CITY INFORMATION
Livingston is a city on
the move and is in a period of transition and transformation due
to new residential and commercial development. The community is
rapidly becoming a premier ethnically diverse, residential,
commercial and industrial center in Merced County and the Central
Valley. It is strategically located along one of California's
major freeway arteries and is just two hours from San Francisco,
the Pacific Coast and the majestic Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Merced County covers 2,000 square miles and has a population of
approx 247,000.
Livingston's economy is intertwined with
the economy of Merced County which is enjoying an industrial
renaissance that has brought approximately 3,000 new jobs with an
estimated impact of $100 million into the County within the past
two years.
The entire City of Livingston is within the
Merced County Enterprise Zone. This Enterprise Zone is one of the
23 Enterprise Zones in the State of California. The California
Enterprise Zone program targets economically distressed areas
using special state and local incentives to promote business
investment and job creation. By encouraging entrepreneurship and
employer growth, the program strives to create and sustain
economic expansion in California communities.
In addition,
Merced was selected in 1995 to be the site of U.C. Merced (the
10th campus in the University of California system). The
university will eventually be home to over 20,000 students.
Merced County is one of the most productive agricultural areas
in the County with $1.75 billion in annual products and $6.5
billion in economic impacts. The main agricultural products
produced in the Livingston area include The grape industry and
later vineyards then Railroad Station Gallo wineries have achieved
world wide prominence as do the sweet potato and almond
industries. Livingston is the world headquarters for Foster Farms
and has the largest chicken processing plant in the world within
the city limits. Diversity of our citizens is a trademark feature.
