Liberty Healthcare files WARN for 113 San Bernardino layoffs
California WARN tracker: Pennsylvania-based mental health services contractor files for 113 layoffs effective July 8; one of the freshest filings in the corridor (notice dated May 13).
ShipMonk closes its San Bernardino warehouse, 145 jobs cut
California WARN tracker: Florida-based 3PL files for permanent closure of its 6010 Cajon Boulevard fulfillment center effective June 30; tracker now lists 145 workers, up from the 124 initially reported.
San Bernardino County opens board meetings to phone comment July 1
San Bernardino County: Residents get to weigh in on county business by phone for the first time — no drive to the Arrowhead Avenue chambers required.
Rialto approves a $3.1M Sycamore Avenue sewer line, about $2.4M under the original estimate
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.
San Bernardino County rewrites flood design rules last set in 1983
San Bernardino County: First overhaul of the county's Hydrology Manual in 43 years; new post-wildfire flooding and debris-flow rules now shape how engineers and developers design drainage.
IE unemployment slips to 4.9% as construction leads April hiring
California EDD: The rate eased from a revised 5.1% in March as the two counties added 5,600 nonfarm jobs over the month — construction led with 2,800.
Riverside County opens 131 more vote centers Saturday for the June 2 primary
County of Riverside: Twenty-one centers are already open; 131 more — including five high-capacity Super Vote Centers, one per supervisorial district — come online Saturday, for 152 total ahead of the June 2 vote.
Riverside parks proposes $2.7M in cuts and would scrap the Latin Festival
The Raincross Gazette: The two-year plan kills the new Latin Festival, thins recreation and community-center security, and leaves two management jobs unfilled — all tied to closing the city's General Fund and Measure Z deficits.
Embarc opens Riverside's first dispensary on Magnolia Avenue
The Raincross Gazette: Nearly a decade after California legalized cannabis, Riverside finally has a storefront — and a one-per-ward cap, down from a planned 14, that keeps the rollout slow. A second Embarc is planned for University Avenue.
Temecula wineries face a May 31 deadline under California's new packaging law
Hinman & Carmichael: Glass bottles and cans are exempt under the Bottle Bill, but the shipping boxes and plastic wrap wineries use to move product are covered — and producers must register or file for an exemption by May 31.
Coachella weighs a data center moratorium after backlash over a 400-acre campus
NBC Palm Springs: Hundreds packed chambers to fight a six-building AI campus; the council may vote next week and could scrap the utility deal it signed with Stronghold in February.
Coachella data center returns to council after February pause
NBC Palm Springs: First council hearing since February on Stronghold Power's project. Opponents and the developer have each stood up rival websites; residents cite water, energy, and environmental concerns.
Newsom signs ballot-seizure ban after Bianco took 600,000 Riverside ballots
CalMatters: SB 73 takes effect immediately and makes it a crime for police to take cast ballots from a county registrar — the exact thing Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco did earlier this year. Lawmakers rushed the bill through ahead of the June 2 primary.
Perris voters decide a 1% sales tax increase June 2
The Riverside Record: Measure B would raise Perris's sales tax from 7.75% to 8.75% and bring in an estimated $18 million annually. The council voted 4-1 to send it to voters, citing rising public safety, infrastructure, and insurance costs.
Hundreds pack Temecula council against SDG&E's 500-kilovolt line through wine country
CBS Los Angeles: SDG&E's Golden Pacific Powerlink would cut a 150-mile, 500-kilovolt corridor from Imperial Valley to Camp Pendleton through Temecula Parkway, Temecula Creek, and the heart of the wine country. The CPUC has final say. Construction targets 2029.
Ontario Airport Hotel rebrands as Hyatt Regency, targets December opening
Hyatt Regency: The Ontario Airport Hotel & Conference Center is becoming a Hyatt Regency following a property-wide renovation. The redesign includes 284 guestrooms, a new Mediterranean restaurant called Lozano, 22,000 square feet of meeting space, and a heated pool. Completion is targeted for December 2026.
IE warehouse vacancy hit 7.8% in the first quarter
Moreno Valley's Villa Annette refinances with a $46M bridge loan
ConnectCRE: The loan retires construction debt and returns equity to the borrower on a newly built 220-unit complex — a clean exit from the build phase rather than a sale.
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.