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.
Riverside posts the fourth-highest all-cash home share in the country
Temecula wine and tourism leaders fight the SDG&E powerlink route
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.
Homelessness moves indoors across the Inland Empire as shelter capacity grows
The Citrus Belt Review: San Bernardino County's count fell for a second straight year while Riverside's most recent full count rose 7% — but underneath the opposite headlines, both counties show the same shift: more people in shelters, fewer on the street.
Drew Hartmann takes over as Riverside Community Hospital CFO
Riverside Community Hospital: HCA insider; comes from running finance at a 454-bed Florida trauma center.
TeamOne to cut 725 staffing jobs in Moreno Valley
California EDD: A staffing firm is cutting 725 jobs at one Moreno Valley site — one of the largest single WARN filings in the corridor this cycle, and a read on warehouse labor demand more than any one employer.
Murrieta Valley voters fill a trustee seat Tuesday after a fight over how
The Riverside Record: A community petition forced the June 2 special election after the board appointed someone last October instead. The winner serves through 2028.
Temecula wine and tourism groups fight SDG&E's Powerlink route
Valley News: Visit Temecula Valley and the Winegrowers Association jointly oppose a 500-kV line routed through wine country, citing tourism damage and wildfire risk in high-severity fire zones.
Riverside County turns on the I-15 smart freeway in Temecula
Redlands council takes up its two-year budget Tuesday
Citrus Belt Review: The city manager's proposed budget for fiscal 2027 and 2028 goes before council June 2 — the spending plan that sets Redlands' fiscal posture for two years.
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 is one of the most foreclosure-exposed big markets in the country
Citrus Belt Review: Filings here hit one in every 811 properties — nearly double the national rate — while a $600,000 median and 66%-of-wages cost burden squeeze buyers. The equity cushion is what keeps it a normalization story, not a 2008 repeat.
Riverside launches a business-attraction website
City of Riverside: New site riversidebusiness.org, announced at the May 21 Economic Development Committee meeting, is pitched as a tool to attract investment and support local business.
Both IE counties open early voting ahead of June 2 primary
Riverside County Registrar of Voters: 152 vote centers open across Riverside County starting May 30, plus 107 ballot drop-off sites; San Bernardino County has opened its own countywide early-voting locations through June 1.
Why IE cities are building their own affordable-housing funds — and why they can't copy Texas
Citrus Belt Review: The national story is that cities and states are putting their own money into affordable housing to close financing gaps. In the Inland Empire it's true — but it takes a California shape, and the tax-abatement lever doing the work elsewhere isn't available here.
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 unemployment falls as hiring picks up across both counties
HSJ Chronicle: The latest EDD numbers show the Inland Empire jobless rate down as employers add jobs, with demand holding in education and health, hospitality, government, construction, and trade.