The City of Chandler, in partnership with Pipeline AZ, is proud to unveil the Chandler Career Center platform, a workforce development initiative designed to enhance the local job market and talent pipeline. This comprehensive platform available at Chandler Career Center, aims to streamline the connection between Chandler’s skilled workforce and the employment opportunities within its thriving business community. The platform will feature an initial targeted focus on Chandler’s manufacturing and healthcare sectors before expanding to other important industry clusters within our community.



The Chandler Career Center platform is a no-cost resource that offers a dual benefit to both job seekers and employers. For individuals looking to navigate their career paths within manufacturing and healthcare, the platform provides access to a wide array of job opportunities, work-based opportunities, and educational resources to enhance their employability and career progression. Employers gain access to a talent pool of motivated candidates ready to contribute to their success, along with the tools to post job openings and manage candidate interactions efficiently.

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Chandler Endeavor is a free business incubation and entrepreneurial development program offered by the City of Chandler. The program is managed by community entrepreneurship experts from ASU's J. Orin Edson Entrepreneurship + Innovation Institute and based downtown at the ASU Chandler Innovation Center.

On Wednesday, Sep. 4, from 5 - 7 p.m., Chandler Endeavor invites founders, business owners, innovators, mentors, and supporters to come together to celebrate and learn how the program is accelerating innovation in our community. In addition, discover the new resources, tools, and opportunities being rolled out for the Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 open cohorts. These months-long cohort series are designed to provide participating founders with highly tailored support that hones in on specific actions that would help grow and scale their ventures.

Date: Wednesday, Sep. 4

Time: 5 - 7 p.m.

Location: ASU Chandler Innovation Center, 249 E. Chicago St

This event is free to attend, but please RSVP. Light refreshments will be provided.

During the Aug. 15 Chandler City Council meeting, Chandler’s Economic Development Director Micah Miranda updated the Mayor and Council on economic trends, stats, successes and opportunities the city is facing and its vision for the future.

Below are a few selected highlights of the briefing. For the complete list, read the news release:

• Chandler continues to receive numerous accolades, one of the recent notable ones from Financial Times-Nikkei Investing in America ranks Chandler as the #16 Best City for Foreign Direct Investment in the nation and #1 City in the State of Arizona. This, along with the other top accolades, speaks highly of the community we’ve built and our economy’s resiliency.
• Chandler has a 49% higher education attainment rate, ranking higher than both the state and national average. In fact, as Chandler’s population continues to increase, so does its educational attainment, which directly impacts residents’ household income and quality of life.
• Twenty-seven percent of Chandler’s workforce are in high-tech industries — compared to 15% in the East Valley and 10% nationwide.
• Over the past several years under the direction of the Mayor & Council, Chandler has seen major expansions and investments from national companies. They include Intel, Insight, and Comtech, to name a few. In addition, Chandler residents are thrilled about recent retail additions, including SCHEELS, Trader Joe’s (opening later this year) and Andretti Indoor Racing & Games.
• Chandler’s unemployment rate is at 3% — according to economists, anything under 4% is considered “virtually none.” Workforce development remains essential to keep unemployment rates low

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Livability recently published its list of the Top 25 Best Places to Live in the Southwest with Chandler ranking fifth. The article highlights Chandler's reputation as a "Community of Innovation" and fast-growing tech hub in addition to the city's strong local economy, top-notch health care facilities, excellent schools, and great amenities. To curate its best places lists, Livability assesses thousands of U.S. cities based on an algorithm and nearly 100 data points related to quality of life.

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Comtech (NASDAQ: CMTL) (the “Company”), a global technology leader, recently announced the relocation of its corporate headquarters from Melville, NY to Chandler, Ariz. Comtech’s new corporate headquarters in Chandler boasts approximately 150,000 square feet of state-of-the-art office, engineering and manufacturing space that is designed to enhance operations, improve collaboration and accelerate the delivery of new technologies, systems and services to a variety of customers across global markets.

“Chandler has established itself as a leading technology corridor in the United States,” said John Ratigan, Interim CEO of Comtech. “We are thrilled to expand our footprint in Arizona and excited to benefit from the City of Chandler’s continued commitment to innovation. This strategic move marks a significant milestone for the Company, and our new headquarters will play a central role in helping Comtech deliver new resilient, network-agnostic, software-defined communications capabilities to some of the world’s most demanding customers, including the Department of Defense (“DoD”).”

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