Redding receives nearly $8 million grant for Stillwater Business Park improvements
The grant will go toward extending a portion of the park to allow for the opening of additional parcels for future development.
The city of Redding has been awarded a $7.9 million grant from the Economic Development Administration for infrastructure improvements at Stillwater Business Park.
The park is owned and operated by the city, and it’s an industrial and commercial development space created in hopes of attracting new businesses and jobs to expand the local economy. The grant will specifically go toward extending Venture Parkway from Parcel 12 to Parcel 16, which will open road access to additional parcels for future development.
“Grants like this allow the City to leverage funding to the best of our ability,” Interim City Manager Michael Webb said in a press release announcing the grant. “We applied for this funding in July of 2025 because we believed this project was a strong investment in Redding’s economic future.
“Completing this infrastructure will improve our economic position, create opportunities for new businesses and jobs, and help bring outside investment into our community,” he continued.
Stillwater Business Park, which is located near the Redding Regional Airport, opened in 2010 after more than a decade of planning and development. It remained unoccupied for several years but has seen a surge of growth in recent years.
About a year ago, construction began on a new Amazon facility at Stillwater Business Park, and it opened earlier this year. The park is also home to other major businesses, including Frito-Lay and Pace Engineering.
Rebecca Baer, president and CEO of the Shasta Economic Development Corporation, said in the press release that with Amazon’s recent investment, further project advancement from other companies and continued interest in the vacant sites, years of planning to create Stillwater Business Park is turning into economic momentum.
“This EDA investment in Venture Parkway is exactly the kind of strategic infrastructure investment that helps us capitalize on that momentum,” she said, “opening access to additional land for development and positioning Stillwater to attract the next generation of employers, investment, and high-quality jobs to Redding and Shasta County.”
The project isn’t expected to go out to bid and start construction until next summer, though timelines are subject to change, and more information will come as the project moves forward, the press release said.
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Well here’s a great Way to take that Grant money elsewhere! How about re -Paveing our streets and so on , rather then focusing on a Bussiness park that is haveing a hard time filling its perimeter already. Why are we focusing on things that are not happening?
Grants are given for specific things and other roads outside of the intended use would probably be another black eye to the city. I wish the three stooges hadn’t caused the law suits, costing us the money
that could have fixed the roads
A perfect place for a jail
Let’s put it near your house. Better yet, why not open the empty floor of the existing jail
Stillwater represents our best effort to overcome Sacramentos anti-private sector crusades. Thanks to the fine leadership in Sacramento, CEO’s rank California as the worst place for business in America. Sacramento has made sure we live with chronic shortages, made sure we have the highest prices, and made sure we are the most regulated state in the union. Stillwater was the thing our community could do to compensate for the crazy. We could lower the cost and risks associated with site planning and we could lower the cost and risk of mandatory off-site improvements. We did everything we could to make Stillwater the easiest place in California to build a business, and even then, it’s struggled to overcome Sacramentos relentless push to extract every drop of blood it can from the private sector. Want Stillwater to thrive? Let’s elect some people that will make the changes necessary to end water, energy and housing shortages, some people who will restore sanity to the regulatory environment, and will reign in the massive amounts of cash being thrown into poorly managed and fraud laden programs.
RS if I didn’t know any better I’d swear you are PHJ himself.
Nah, it’s Bruce Ross. Which explains why he is shoving his propaganda so hard.
Nah, if it was PHJ it would include spelling and grammatical errors, and if it was Bruce it would include more than just sweeping generalizations. .
Pray tell RS, who would that be?
Diane Feinstein helped with the funding to build this commercial sub-d; it has set empty for about 20 years, maybe more. It has nothing to do with State regulations, I remember Erwin Fuss (sp?) expressing that they didn’t want the area to grow; he was in our local government.
Yep…it has been a flop since the beginning of its time. At one time they even offered a buy one get one or two free and couldn’t get any one in there. What a waste of 8 million bucks.
Stillwater Business Park has been in existence for almost 2 decades and the results are meager.
Wondering if this venture sponsored by the City of Redding has been independently audited to discard malfeasance, corruption or wasteful spending
I’ve often wondered if there is any way to leverage Stillwater and REU into higher participation in the renewable energy market. Maybe it’s been explored and I missed it. Seems like a natural fit.
Selah
Perfect example of why small cities shouldn’t try to be developers.