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names such as the City of Industry or the City of Commerce). These are traditional
manufacturing cities that have remained industrial, and where logistics has always
gone hand in hand with manufacturing activities. The facilities used for logistics
are often aging, rather small, with low ceilings and insufficient parking, and lack
services such as cables or optical fibers. Many of them have been renovated. In any
case, they are all conveniently located to minimize distances to and from ports,
railyards and consumer markets. They have very low vacancy rates, which shows
they satisfy a specific part of the demand for logistics space.
Eastern developments along SR60 through the San Gabriel valley towards the
Inland Empire, in Riverside County, and all the way up to the western part of the
Coachella Valley. These include cities such as Moreno Valley, Chino, Beaumont
or Banning. All have engaged in promotional activities to attract logistics. These
promotional activities are part of a story that has been very nicely recounted by
Husing (
2010
). For the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership, for example,
which is at L.A.'s current frontier of urbanization to the East, the development of
warehousing is a stated priority. Some recent photos of logistics developments in
this area are given in Fig.
1
and Moreno Valley is discussed in
Sect. 4
.
New logistics developments in the north, including the High Desert, Kern
County, and the north of Los Angeles County. For the latter, a few cities stand out
such as Santa Clarita, which has seen a recent surge in large warehousing
developments, Lancaster with several mega distribution centers, and Palmdale
which has been active in developing a Business Park where FedEx and Rite Aid
distribution centers are already sited.
Fig. 1 Photos of recent logistics developments in the Inland Empire (Moreno Valley and
Ontario/Fontana areas). Source courtesy of Steven Cuevas, KPCC
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