Farmers Insurance Simi Valley Ca

L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa Welcomes New Farmers Insurance Facility ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. /California Newswire/ — Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Councilmember Dennis Zine, and city officials joined Farmers Insurance representatives to welcome the company to their new Woodland Hills facility that directly benefited from the City’s recent development reform efforts.

“The opening of Farmers’ new facility demonstrates our ongoing commitment to creating and retaining hundreds of good paying jobs in Los Angeles,” Mayor Villaraigosa said. “During these tough economic times, we are steadily improving the business climate in Los Angeles through development reform that helps businesses create jobs and complete projects more quickly.”

Farmers is relocating over 1,200 employees from Simi Valley and signed a 10 year lease to occupy 8 floors at their new facility in Woodland Hills. Farmers was able to move more employees to this location because of the expedited permitting for a new parking structure by the new Development Services Case Management Office (DSCMO). The Mayor announced the DSCMO earlier this year that houses expert staff from the five key departments that oversee development and assigns a case manager to every development project.

“Farmers would like to thank Mayor Villaraigosa and Councilmember Zine who have helped Farmers with this important move to Woodland Hills. Farmers was founded in Los Angeles 83 years ago, and still occupies its headquarters office in the mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles. We are proud that through the years Farmers has grown to be the third largest insurer of personal lines auto and homeowners insurance in the United States. We have over 900 employees now in the facility, and 400 more will move there next year,” noted Robert Woudstra, Farmers CEO. “This new facility is a continuing commitment to our employees in California.”

To further streamline the development process and improve customer service, the Mayor yesterday signed an executive directive to improve the City’s development review processes, improve interdepartmental coordination, enhance technology and update codes and policies to create an efficient, transparent and predictable process for all participants. To manage and implement this strategic development reform plan, there will be a Development Services Cabinet that will be chaired by Deputy Mayor of the Office of Economic and Business Policy Matt Karatz and will include staff from key City departments.

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