Article: Deal-making official retires from city hall job in South El Monte, Calif.

By Jason Kosareff, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 1--Community Development Director Gary Myrick is retiring after 16 years of deal-making that was often stymied by past city councils.

Myrick's job was to bring business into the city.

He is considered by some to have a genius for deal-making and a nuanced historical knowledge of the city.

Critics thought him abrasive and ineffective, putting the city's glut of warehouses and factories squarely on his shoulders.

"They know that I've always told the truth and that I've always been straight and square with them," Myrick said of his ...

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