Better Business Bureau to host mixer in El Cajon

The San Diego Better Business Bureau (BBB), San Diego’s largest county-wide business membership organization, will host a BBB business-to-business (B2B) networking mixer from 4 to 6 p.m., on Thursday, Sept. 2, at Toyota of El Cajon, 965 Arnele Ave., in El Cajon. The public is invited to attend.
Admission cost is $25 per person. To RSVP, contact Andy Ramos, BBB marketing and special events assistant, at aramos@sandiego.bbb.org, or (858) 637-6199, ext. 324. For mixer event information, visit www.sandiego.bbb.org and click “News Center” and “Events Calendar.” Underwriters for the BBB’s 2012 mixers are AFLAC Insurance and Modern Postcard. Additional sponsors for September’s mixer are Newbridge College and Workout With Kirk. More than 200 business and community leaders have attended previous BBB mixers held in various locations around San Diego County.
Toyota of El Cajon features an eco-friendly showroom with sitting areas, a children’s play center, an Internet café, a food café and a state-of-the-art climate control system. The 124,000-square-foot building, previously a Home Depot site, was remodeled in 2009 to become the first Southern California automobile dealership to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. The local auto dealership managed by brothers Gary and Greg Kaminsky is a previous winner of a BBB Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics.