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Editorial: Morgan Hill’s economic development plans are coming to fruition

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Archer Aviation will add an estimated 300 new jobs at its new facility in Morgan Hill.

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Morgan Hill has spent years talking about economic development. Now, the results are becoming increasingly difficult to miss. The city is emerging as a significant hub for advanced manufacturing, clean technology and next-generation engineering. Major investments by Archer Aviation, Mir Mosaic and Heron Power are bringing hundreds of jobs, millions of dollars in capital investment and cutting-edge manufacturing to a community that has long sought to strengthen its economic base. This is good news - not just for the companies moving into Morgan Hill, but for the entire community. During the past four years, more than 1.5 million square feet of Class A industrial space has been built. That development has helped address a problem that once constrained Morgan Hill’s ability to grow: industrial vacancy was only about 3%, leaving little room for existing businesses to expand. As of today, the industrial vacancy rate is at 6.5%, down from a high of 17% before the recent acquisitions. Much of that new industrial capacity was developed by Trammell Crow Company, including the 410,000-square-foot Butterfield 5 Tech Park and the 501,000-square-foot Cochrane Technology Center. Mir Mosaic recently purchased a 90,000-square-foot building at Butterfield 5, expanding its Morgan Hill footprint by 25,000 square feet and adding 15 jobs to its existing workforce. Then came Heron Power’s...

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The facility will serve as a West Coast hub for tooling, component manufacturing and aircraft production, with an estimated 300 new jobs.

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Headcount growth

What this signalsFast hiring often means budgets are growing.

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300
Location
Morgan Hill, California, United States

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300

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Confidence
90%
Detected
Aug 27, 2026
signal_type
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signal_subtype
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