Membership

If not yet a member, we invite your company to join the Antelope Valley Board of Trade. The Board is engaged in activities that promote economic growth and diversity through expanding employment opportunities, building quality infra-structures, creating a positive business climate, and being a strong legislative lobby.

Historically, the Antelope Valley Board of Trade has been the principal proponent in:

• Building of the Antelope Valley Freeway;
• Spearheading of the east branch of the California Aqueduct and its distribution system in the Antelope Valley;
• Bringing the FAA Flight Control Center to Palmdale;
• Construction of Mayflower Garden, a 550 unit senior citizen housing facility;
• Maintaining important census and demographic data as an associate office U.S. Department of Commerce;
• Campaigning to bring a four-year State University to the High Desert;
• Establishing the Metrolink

Today, a membership of more than 200 of the Antelope Valley’s business leaders working on such important matters as:

• Developing a “united front” to promote employment and employers in the Antelope Valley;
• Evaluating legislative matters that affect business and general quality of life in the Antelope Valley;
• Supporting the efforts to building The Palmdale Regional Airport and the economic pluses it would bring;
• Improving the Antelope Valley Freeway; State Route 138, and promoting the development of logical thoroughfares connecting home and the workplace;
• Improving the quality of membership and client services, especially as they pertain to economic and demographic data, lobbying and being an effective resource in solving your business problems;
• Edwards Air Force Base (EAFB) retention;
• Air/water quality