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For weeks, Sacramento and three other cities have been primping and preening to land a coveted title - Miss Stem Cell USA.
To some, this beauty pageant may seem like an unseemly and chaotic way to launch a $3 billion science program. Actually, it has worked out just as the master of ceremonies planned.
Robert Klein II, the self-installed leader of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, purposely avoided designating a host city when he wrote Proposition 71, the stem cell initiative. Klein, a Bay Area real estate magnate, realized that by setting up a municipal competition, even the most cash-strapped cities would fall over themselves to land the headquarters.
And so they have.
Sacramento, San Francisco and San Diego have offered 10 years of free rent in deluxe office buildings.
San Francisco has thrown in $900,000 in conference hotel rooms. San Diego, mired in a fiscal meltdown, is touting its world-class golf courses.
Sacramento has adopted a farm-girl strategy, hoping that its wholesome Midwest manners will win out over sluttish San Francisco and surf-and-turf San Diego.
"Patients are the real...
To some, this beauty pageant may seem like an unseemly and chaotic way to launch a $3 billion science program. Actually, it has worked out just as the master of ceremonies planned.
Robert Klein II, the self-installed leader of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, purposely avoided designating a host city when he wrote Proposition 71, the stem cell initiative. Klein, a Bay Area real estate magnate, realized that by setting up a municipal competition, even the most cash-strapped cities would fall over themselves to land the headquarters.
And so they have.
Sacramento, San Francisco and San Diego have offered 10 years of free rent in deluxe office buildings.
San Francisco has thrown in $900,000 in conference hotel rooms. San Diego, mired in a fiscal meltdown, is touting its world-class golf courses.
Sacramento has adopted a farm-girl strategy, hoping that its wholesome Midwest manners will win out over sluttish San Francisco and surf-and-turf San Diego.
"Patients are the real...