Premier, Penwood buy two Rialto Amazon warehouses for $270M
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.
For Fontana's steel firms, the tariff question isn't whether they import metal — it's where they sit in the chain
Citrus Belt Review: Washington just softened a few finished-goods tariffs, but the force that actually moves IE metal companies is the 50% tax on raw steel and aluminum — and it splits local firms into winners and losers depending on whether they make metal or buy it.
Demolition begins on the Ontario warehouse lost to fire
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.
FedEx Freight is now independent — and it's coming after the IE's mid-market shippers
Citrus Belt Review: The spinoff changes no lanes and no jobs on day one. What matters locally is the stated strategy: a standalone carrier with bleeding volume hunting the $9B SMB segment — in the metro with the densest concentration of those shippers in the western U.S.
The Inland Empire runs on diesel, and diesel just became its biggest exposure
Citrus Belt Review: At ~$7.17 a gallon, IE diesel runs about $2 above the national average — a direct input cost to the region's dominant industry. The logistics economy that the I-10/I-15/SR-60 corridor was built on now carries a fuel penalty the rest of the country doesn't share.
IE tomato prices hit an eight-year high as tariffs, freezes, and diesel stack up
The Citrus Belt Review: Romas and slicers run $1.50–$2.50 a pound across Inland Empire shelves right now — and wholesale buyers are getting hit harder than shoppers.
Walmart buys its Riverside cold-storage facility for $223M
The Real Deal: Walmart bought the building it had rented since 2010 — a bet on cold storage while the rest of the IE industrial market sits at 8.1% vacancy.
Walmart pays $223M for the Riverside cold-storage building it's leased since 2010
ConnectCRE: About $440 a square foot for the 507,000 sf temperature-controlled plant on Columbia Avenue — a tenant turning owner in a cold-storage market where demand keeps outrunning supply.
IE warehouse vacancy hit 7.8% in the first quarter
China-based 3PL takes a 500,000 sf Ontario warehouse that sat vacant two years
MacLeod & Co.: The building sat empty nearly two years because most large tenants chase 32-to-40-foot ceilings; this 3PL runs fine at 30-foot clear — and the terms (large free rent, a big TI allowance, a below-market rate) read like a tenant's market.
Europe Tightens, the US Loosens, and the Inland Empire Stays a Hallway
The EU's new Industrial Accelerator Act is the next chapter in bloc-aligned manufacturing. The IE missed the last chapter, and current trends suggest it will miss this one too.
Skechers ends Moreno Valley temp-staffing contract; 725 workers laid off
SoCal ports cleared 6.49 million TEUs in 2026's first four months
Pacific Merchant Shipping Association: Combined San Pedro Bay container traffic ran 11–32% above pre-pandemic 2019 through April, even as analysts had forecast year-over-year declines.
Walmart, Clarion buy IE big-box warehouses as vacancy hits 8.5%
Cushman & Wakefield IE MarketBeat: Five big-box sales closed in Q1, each over 390,000 sf. Walmart paid $220 psf for a 507,000-sf Riverside box; Clarion bought a million-sf building from LACERA for $140M.
Closing IE's degree gap is worth $1 trillion, Georgetown says. A local economist disagrees.
IE Business Daily: Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce projects a $1 trillion gain for the IE economy if 70% of working-age adults across all demographic groups held a credential. Jay Prag of the Drucker School says the IE jobs base can't absorb that many degree holders.
ONT freight grows 15% in March; passenger growth hits four-month streak
Inland Empire Business Journal: First-quarter passenger volume up 4.1% and air freight tonnage up 12.7% year-over-year at Ontario International Airport.