Inland Empire apartment rents turn back up as the supply wave eases
Citrus Belt Review: The IE average rent rose 1.0% to $2,320 in Q1, reversing two quarters of declines — the gains landing in older, cheaper units as new Class A product still gets absorbed. The national market, by contrast, has stalled.
Indio breaks ground this summer on $45 million police headquarters
IE Business Daily: Indio's $45 million police headquarters anchors the final phase of a Public Safety Campus that already holds a fire station, dispatch center, and a 22,000-square-foot services building — a multi-year municipal build with ground breaking this summer and completion set for spring 2028.
ViewSonic takes 171,913 SF at Ontario Ranch after 12 years in Chino
ConnectCRE: A 12-year Chino tenant moves to a never-occupied Class A building — the kind of flight-to-new-product absorption the IE West submarket has been counting on.
IE apartment rents turn up as new construction falls 27%
Citrus Belt Review: Rents turned positive in Q1 after two years of softening, and the 2026 delivery pipeline is 27% smaller. The IE ran the national overbuilding cycle in miniature — and the exit is now visible.
More IE sellers are pulling homes off the market — and relisting them
Why the IE Never Built Its Own Newport Coast
Citrus Belt Review: Four and a half million people and home values past their old ceilings, but no top-tier wealth enclave. The reason isn't poverty. It's how the corridor earns.
Walmart finishes remodel of its Van Buren Supercenter in Riverside
IE Business Daily: The 5200 Van Buren Blvd. store reopened June 5 with expanded curbside pickup, a new fulfillment center, and a wider product assortment — one of 56 California remodels underway.
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.
IE home shoppers skip the rental hedge spreading through coastal markets
Citrus Belt Review: Zillow's dual-shopper data puts the Riverside metro at 6.1% — affordable-market behavior paired with a coastal-sized cost gap.
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.
Premier, Penwood buy two Rialto Amazon warehouses for $270M
DO Capital breaks ground on 250-acre District at Jurupa Valley
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.
IE industrial vacancy climbs to 8.5%, more than double the 10-year norm
Cushman & Wakefield: Vacancy rose another 50 basis points in the first quarter — the warehouse glut that defined 2025 hasn't cleared yet.
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.
IE home prices are softening, but buyers haven't pulled back
Citrus Belt Review: The headline number — medians down across both counties — reads like a slump. The number underneath it says otherwise: people are still buying at last year's pace or faster, even as prices dip. That's a balancing market, not a contracting one.
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.
Half of Riverside Rents Its Homes. The Foreclosure Decade Did That.
Citrus Belt Review: The city is a coin-flip between owners and renters while the county around it stays two-thirds owned. That gap isn't drift — it's what the 2008 crash left behind, and state law is now locking it in.