[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 110 (Wednesday, September 15, 2004)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1623]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      IN RECOGNITION OF ALEX MEHRAN, CORPORATE LEADER OF THE YEAR

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                           HON. GEORGE MILLER

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 14, 2004

  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, I invite my colleagues 
to join me today in saluting Alex Mehran, who will be named Corporate 
Leader of the Year for Contra Costa County at the AFL-CIO's Labor-2-
Labor dinner in my congressional district on September 17, 2004. Mr. 
Mehran earned this honor due to his continued leadership within our 
community on such issues as housing, transportation and the creation of 
quality jobs for America's working families.
  As President and Chief Executive Officer of Sunset Development 
Company, Alex has built the largest, most diverse business center in 
the San Francisco Bay region. That development, Bishop Ranch, contains 
over 350 companies that employ over 30,000 people. In order to provide 
the housing and transportation choices these employees, and others 
throughout the region, need, Alex Mehran has provided dynamic 
leadership on a number of initiatives to address these issues.
  As Chairman of the Contra Costa Economic Partnership he has helped to 
create a unique collaboration of public and private partnerships to 
promote economic development strategies that support a higher quality 
of life for the region's residents.
  Alex has shown his commitment to making the ``American Dream'' 
available to all of our community's residents by creating learning 
opportunities for immigrant workers at his job sites so they can gain 
the English skills needed to fully participate in our society.
  For our system to truly work, we must have corporate leaders like 
Alex Mehran who understand our great society's health depends on each 
of our hard-working residents having the opportunity to enjoy the 
quality of life we all work so hard to create.

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