7 of the 10th largest Warehouse projects in California may come to Riverside County -Redlands Daily Facts

Imagine how many warehouses are in Riverside County. Now add 745 more football fields worth warehouses to this number.

This is how new logistical space is potentially on the horizon of the county, according to the environmental consultant in Riverside Mike McCarthy.

Using publicly available data, McCarthy found that Riverside County is home to seven of the 10th largest storage projects that are being studied to impact their environmental impact in California.

The projects extending from the city city of the cathedral to the Temeskal Valley south of the crown do not include what has already been approved, including the World Logistics Center, which will add 40 million square feet of warehouses to the East Moreno Valley.

It is enough to make McCarthy, a critic of the addition of warehouses, to question how the county will handle it all.

“There are already a ton of warehouses in the pipeline and then we will add a bunch on it and I just don’t see that we have the infrastructure to handle it,” he said.

Alicia Aguyo, a spokesman for the People’s Collective, based in San Bernardino, mourned the prospect of more warehouses in a logistics saturated in the internal empire.

“It is a pity that the industry continues to expand in our back yards because we do not have the protection or reassurance that there will be enough mitigation to compensate for more toxins in a region with the highest quality of air,” Aguyo said by email.

More warehouses means more jobs, Paul Granilo, president and executive director of the economic partnership of the Internal Empire, argues.

He cites a new survey by the US Chamber of Commerce, which found that, among other benefits, a new distribution center inland creates more than 3,300 jobs outside the warehouse and generates $ 51 million from local tax revenue.

“We need to find a way to evaluate the top of the economic impact of logistics and make sure we mitigate against the flaw,” Granilo said.

The projects in the McCarthy list are subject to reduction and changes if, and when approved, they may not consist entirely of warehouses, since the industrial zoning of warehouses opens the production door or other non-body applications.

Who approves the projects depends on where they are. Cities have a land use body within its borders, while counties control what is being built in unaccorpored areas.

One hour by car from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the Internal Empire-Dom of Railways, highways, an abundance of flat undeveloped land and labor with blue collars-a home of a massive logistics industry with few peers around the world.

By 2022, the region had approximately 1 billion square feet of warehouses. The constant flow of warehouses for large platforms delivers warehouses approaching 1 million square feet or larger, providing local jobs for thousands of workers performing online orders for Amazon, Big Box Stores and other retailers.

Logistics is credited to help the domestic economy to avoid the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic, and companies like Amazon claim that their internal facilities offer a ticket for free college and middle-class life.

Critics are opposed that most storage jobs offer non -standard salaries and benefits under dangerous working conditions. The warehouses are also accused of noise and light pollution, and the emissions of warehouses associated with diesel trucks are related to cancer, heart disease and other health problems.

To make his top 10 list, McCarthy uses data from CEQUNET, a state -owned project database that needs a review of the California Environment Act before they can be approved.

Large warehouses often need reports on environmental impact or EIR-deep studies, hundreds or thousands of lengths of length that analyze what the project of the local environment will do if built.

At the forefront of McCarthy’s list is the Westside Annexation Project in a non -intruded Los Angeles County. The project near Lancaster will add up to 38.5 million square feet of warehouses.

The following is a project of 24.8 million square feet in northern California. Third on the list is the San Jackinto Trade Center, a 9 million square meter project, which is sought for 514 acres between Record Road, Avenue Odell, Sanderson Avenue and Cottonwood Road.

The next six projects are in Riverside County:

Overall, Riverside County projects are 42.9 million square feet. Creation of the list is also the Lake Creek Logistics Center Project – 3.5 million square feet – in the High Desert of San Bernardino County in Apple Valley.

McCarthy said it is possible for warehouse developers to look at Riverside County, “because there is a slightly more developed land in Riverside County than in the inner parts of San Bernardino County.”

His list does not include projects in different stages of development in the cities of Riverside and San Bernardino. For example, there is a Bloomington Business Park of 3.2 million square meters in a non -intruded San Bernardino County.

The list also does not include 7.3 million square feet of Stoneridge trading centers, which is striving for the unauthorized Riverside County Community in Nuevo and the Upper Plateau of the Western campus, a project of 4.7 million square Riverside, which is currently suspended.

McCarthy is worried about Riverside County is poorly prepared for more warehouses.

“There are effects on air quality, there are effects on the use of land, the effects of justice of the environment … and simply the impact of congestion and traffic,” he said. “And so each of these individual projects has all these problems. But put them all together and it just amplifies it. “