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The IE's growth machine is down to one engine
Citrus Belt Review: California shrank for the first time in three years. The IE still grew — but only where houses went up, and only in one of its two counties.
Most Inland Empire residents say they're struggling — even as the economy grows
Citrus Belt Review: A UCR survey finds just 41% of IE residents thriving, against 53% nationwide. The economy is growing, but the gains aren't reaching wages or the warehouse jobs the corridor was built on.
Riverside metro physician pay lands in the national top ten at $456,000
Citrus Belt Review: The Riverside metro pays physicians within 3% of Los Angeles rates — one of five California metros in Doximity's national top ten.
Ontario's Prime Healthcare hits 55 hospitals with its ninth Chicago-area deal
Citrus Belt Review: The fourth-largest for-profit hospital system in the country runs from a Guasti Road office park — and the buying spree is financed like a public company.
Inland Empire set to open 12 hotels this year, with 54 more in early planning
Lodging Econometrics: The IE is the only California market in the national top five for hotel development, with 5,266 rooms in early planning at the end of Q1.
UCR plans for 35,000 students while CSUSB cuts its way to balance
Citrus Belt Review: The UC system is betting its statewide growth on Riverside. Cal State San Bernardino, drawing 88% of its students from the corridor, is closing an $18 million hole.
CIELO Fund puts $310,000 into 22 IE nonprofits
Inland Empire Community Foundation: 2026 round pushes the Latino-focused fund past $1.7 million in total investment since its 2022 launch.
Premier, Penwood buy two Rialto Amazon warehouses for $270M
DO Capital breaks ground on 250-acre District at Jurupa Valley
UCR takes its MBA fully online this fall
UC Riverside: The only fully online MBA in the UC system based in Southern California, built for working professionals who can't get to campus.
ONT cargo climbs while IE warehouse jobs keep bleeding
Citrus Belt Review: Air freight through ONT is up double digits most months this year — even as the region's warehouses shed thousands of jobs. One slice of IE logistics is booming while the other contracts.
Why the data-center fight hasn't reached the Inland Empire
Citrus Belt Review: The IE core has no hyperscale proposals and no bans — because the binding constraint is power, and so far it's kept the fight 75 miles east. The tell: a Riverside company drove past its own home market to build six data centers in Coachella.
Why buying a used truck is a harder bet in the IE than almost anywhere else
Citrus Belt Review: A used Class 8 truck used to be freight's cheap way in. For an IE owner-operator right now it's a high-stakes bet — caught between a federal emissions deadline that may move, California rules stuck in court, and a price jump everyone expected that still hasn't hit.
The IE apartment market spent four years going from "no marketing needed" to a fight for every lease
Citrus Belt Review: Apple Maps just opened up to ads, and apartment-marketing trade press is treating it as the next channel. The more telling local story: the IE has quietly flipped from a market where units leased themselves to one where Class A communities compete hard for renters — and a new ad channel is a symptom of that, not the cause.
A Palm Springs pitmaster eats the cost as beef hits a record $9.64 a pound
NBC Palm Springs: Retail beef hit a record $9.64/lb in April, up about 13% on the year on a historic cattle shortage — and at the Fireside Lounge, Big Earl's is absorbing the hit rather than passing it on.
Redlands Mall comes down after 15 years empty — with no new plan for what replaces it
Community Forward Redlands: A new owner is clearing the downtown site under the old environmental review, but hasn't filed its own redevelopment plan — the sixth owner since 2000 to inherit the question of what goes here.
Tri Pointe opens two neighborhoods at Canyon Hills Heights in Lake Elsinore
Tri Pointe Homes: Harmony and Serene, the builder's two new single-family neighborhoods inside the Canyon Hills masterplan, opened May 16.
NewMark Merrill signs 11 tenants at Victorville's Desert Sky Plaza II, hits 85% pre-leased
ConnectCRE: The 297,363 sf High Desert center is nearly leased out before a July groundbreaking, with Ross, Five Below, Target and Burlington anchoring.
Temecula wine and tourism leaders fight the SDG&E powerlink route
Ontario airport starts the clock on a fourth terminal
IE Business Daily: ONT BOLD — a fourth terminal, a six-story garage, and full upgrades to the two existing terminals — clears its first hurdle. The buildout could run 10 years or more.