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Stories
California ran the federal housing-credit overhaul the opposite way the country did. The IE pipeline rode it.

California was first in the country to implement the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's central housing-credit change — and its fall bond round was the largest on record. For IE developers, the constraint was never finding takers. The question is whether the deals still pencil at IE rents.

Stories
Temecula food distributor buys Menifee warehouse for $40.5M, will spend $25M on cold conversion
The nation's fifth-largest nonprofit affordable-housing builder runs out of Rancho Cucamonga — and builds hardest at home
California ordered 6 gigawatts of new power for data centers. The Inland Empire makes almost none of its own.
The tariff refunds are flowing to whoever held the import-of-record line — which in the IE often isn't the tenant
A national factory revival is a warning the Inland Empire reads backward
The port is planning for less cargo, and the IE already has the empty buildings
Soda Mountain's approval signals the IE desert is becoming California's battery yard
Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation pays $33.2 million for Riverside's Mission Inn
National private equity is buying construction — but not the IE's contractors
BNSF's $4 billion Barstow rail yard is built to pull transload work out of IE warehouses
National rail is surging on freight the Inland Empire doesn't run on
CAISO's $6.7 billion plan builds for solar in the IE's high desert
Rancho Cucamonga medical office building sells for $7.1 million
Riverside County FAIR Plan policies jumped 509% in four years as insurers pulled back from wildfire risk
IE warehouse vacancy hit 7.8% as big tenants moved out, but Q1 leasing jumped 45%
Port of LA forecasts a 7% drop in box volume, and IE warehouses feel it on a lag
The Data Center That Ate the Warehouse Isn't Coming to the Inland Empire
Sleep Number bankruptcy puts its Inland Empire store cluster in play
Pet food maker Hoa's Global leases 163K SF in Ontario
Tariffs are hitting Inland Empire construction where it's already weakest
Inland Empire apartment rents turn back up as the supply wave eases
Indio breaks ground this summer on $45 million police headquarters
ViewSonic takes 171,913 SF at Ontario Ranch after 12 years in Chino
IE apartment rents turn up as new construction falls 27%
More IE sellers are pulling homes off the market — and relisting them
Why the IE Never Built Its Own Newport Coast
Walmart finishes remodel of its Van Buren Supercenter in Riverside
The IE's growth machine is down to one engine
IE home shoppers skip the rental hedge spreading through coastal markets
Inland Empire set to open 12 hotels this year, with 54 more in early planning

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