DO Capital breaks ground on 250-acre District at Jurupa Valley

The Sun: DO Capital Group broke ground Thursday on The District at Jurupa Valley, a mixed-use development covering roughly 250 acres at 30th Street and Frontage Road, opposite the 60 Freeway eastbound on-ramp. The plan: nearly 1,200 residential units on 42 acres, a shopping center anchored by a 60,000-square-foot Vallarta Supermarket, a four-story, 122-room WoodSpring Suites under the Choice Hotels flag, over 300,000 square feet of office and retail, and 1.5 million square feet of industrial and logistics space. Santa Ana-based Red Mountain Group is handling the shopping center.

Mauricio Oberfeld, DO Capital's founding principal, said the project started more than eight years ago, with environmental and city permits cleared over the past two. Scrapers are already working the site west of the Santa Ana River. Oberfeld called it a massive undertaking — the footprint runs about the size of two Disneyland parks.

The groundbreaking lands in the middle of a retail run for Jurupa Valley. Mayor Brian Berkson said the city has opened nearly 20 businesses since early 2025, including a Target at the 32-acre Shops at Jurupa Valley and a Sprouts at the Spectrum Shopping Center, both along Limonite Avenue. More than $130 million in planned bridge upgrades and widening along Mission Boulevard and Market Street would connect Riverside shoppers across the river to Jurupa Valley.

The project also carries an image angle the city wants to close out: the Stringfellow Superfund site, where more than 34 million gallons of industrial waste went into the ground over decades, sits in Pyrite Canyon at the city's northern edge. Officials say it's more than four miles away and has no bearing on the new development.