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One of the greatest challenges for Greater Los Angeles and Orange County will be to
provide affordable housing for the workforce. A key reason is that residential land has
gone through the roof in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. We believe the sky high land
costs in these areas will push companies and their employees to the Inland Empire, which already has the infrastructure to support the next major metropolis in Southern California. The Victor Valley is the jewel of the Inland Empire, and is where the next major land boom in California is already underway. John Husing, a well-known economist, said the Victor Valley, between 2010 and 2020, will likely become the new center for California's distribution industry. He went on to say that as the large cities in the Inland Empire run out of room, the distribution needs of industry will look to the Victor Valley.
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| THE VICTOR VALLEY IS WITHIN THE FOLLOWING DRIVING DISTANCES: | |||
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Los Angeles County (50 miles) Orange County (63 miles) Palm Springs (95 miles) Las Vegas (182 miles) Phoenix (371 miles) San Francisco (416 miles) |
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| 12 KEY POINTS YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT THE FABULOUS VICTOR VALLEY: | |||
Population.
The SANBAG Victor Valley Area Transportation Study of July 2006 stated that the population of the Victor Valley had grown to approximately 335,000 residents. According to the Victorville Daily Press, May 11, 2005, the Mayor of Victorville predicted that the population of the Victor Valley would reach 1,000,000 residents by 2013.
According to the Victorville Daily Press, March 14, 2008, the Victor Valley is now the fastest-growing area in San Bernardino County and shows no signs of stopping.
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 Southern California Logistics Airport, located in Victorville, is now operational, and home to many global billion-dollar companies like Boeing, General Electric, Swiss Global Cargo, Pratt & Whitney, Catellus Development Corporation, Pasha Group, and the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company. In 1999, the Southern California Logistics Airport Authority reached an agreement with Stirling Enterprises for a $418 million development plan for this Airport. Stirling is the developer of this Airport. SCLA could become one of the largest international cargo airports in the nation. |
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Wal-Mart's $80 million Consumer Products Distribution Center is now operational on 320 acres in the Victor Valley,
and serves all Wal-Marts and Sam's Clubs in Southern California. It is estimated to create 900 jobs.
With revenues of over $351 billion in 2006, Wal-Mart is the world's largest company and retailer, and has been ranked number 1 on the Fortune 500 for 2006. Wal-Mart employs 1.9 million people worldwide.
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 Major Distribution Centers. Goodyear Tire Manufacturing built a multi-million dollar 830,000 Sq. Ft. distribution center in Victorville. Mars Candy built a $20 million distribution center in Victorville, very close to the Goodyear facility on Hesperia Road. In Victorville's Foxborough Industrial Park, Conagra Foods built a 207,000 Sq. Ft. cold storage facility and Nutro Pet Products is building a $60 million, 650,000 Sq. Ft. distribution center. |
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Two Major Power Plants. First Major Power plant in 10 years in California at a cost of $450 million is now operational in the Victor Valley. Moreover, a Second 500-Megawatt Solar/Gas-Fired Power Plant shall be built at the northern edge of the Southern California Logistics Airport. |
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Major Completed Freeways: I-15 that goes south to San Diego and north to Las Vegas, Hwy 395 which goes south to Mexico and north to Canada, and Hwy 18 and Hwy 138. The Victor Valley is about an hour and fifteen-minute drive from Disneyland and Los Angeles. Caltrans will spend $178 million on I-15 expansion and add a third lane to reduce the freeway congestion along this highly traveled freeway in the Victor Valley.
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  Major shopping Malls Host Major Multi-Screen Movie Complexes that include national retailers such as Best Buy, Circuit City, Mervyn's, Sears, JC Penney's, Costco, Harris/Gottschalks, Lowe’s Home Improvement Center, Home Depot, Big 5, Staples, Old Navy, Petsmart, Officemax, Pier 1 Imports, Toys R US, several Wal-Mart locations, and many other national chain stores. The Victor Valley Mall has over 100 Stores, and is located on 60 acres at the Bear Valley Road interchange off the I-15 Freeway. |
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National Chain Restaurants like Cask N Cleaver, Marie Calendar's, McDonald's, Starbucks, Applebee's, KFC,
Hometown Buffet, Red Robin, Baja Fresh, Red Lobster, Bob's Bigboy, Coco's, Denny's, Olive Garden, and the
Outback Steakhouse.
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Famous Supermarkets and Drugstores such as Ralph's, Hughes, Albertson's, Stater Bros., Rite-Aid, Walgreens, Sav-On and Longs.
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  Famous Hotel Chains such as Hilton, Marriott, La Quinta, Best Western, Red Roof, Ramada, Travelodge, Howard Johnson Inn, Days Inn Suites, Super 8 and Holiday Inn. |
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A Proposed High Speed Maglev Train is being considered which could take passengers from Anaheim to the Victor Valley and
Las Vegas at speeds of 300 MPH, and travel the 269 miles between Anaheim and Las Vegas in just 86 minutes. According to the San Bernardino Sun, November 16, 2005, Congress has authorized spending $45 million for the Maglev Train Study in the current Federal Transportation Bill. Victorville Mayor Rothchild stated that the Maglev Train will make us less oil dependent, bring more business along the route through the Victor Valley, and reduce congestion on the highly traveled I-15.
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An Impressive Educational System that includes the
Victor Valley Community College and the
Victor Valley Union High School which includes 10 High Schools in its system. Apple Valley can boast of its modern,
state of the art 180,000 square foot Granite Hills High School that has over 2000 students. In addition, there are
Elementary Schools and Junior High Schools in the Victor Valley. The high quality of education is a magnet for bringing new residents and new housing developments to this thriving region.
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| These airports, industries, shopping malls, national retailers, hotels, restaurants, homebuilders, and school systems do an extensive amount of demographic research before committing funds to a new area. The existence of their completed developments proves their strong belief in the future of the Victor Valley. | |||
| MASSIVE 1 MILLION SQ. FT. LOGISTICS PROJECT UNDER WAY AT SCLA IN 2008 | |||
According to the Victorville Daily Press, March 9, 2008, work has begun on what is being called the largest speculative industrial project ever built in the High Desert. Stirling Capital Investments is developing the 1-million-square-foot warehouse-distribution building at SCLA in Victorville, Stirling Vice President Brian Parno said. Construction on the 46-acre site started in February and is expected to be finished in December 2008. Despite the current economic slowdown, Stirling Capital officials still view the High Desert as a solid industrial market. “You don't build a logistics facility like this one for one year; you build it for 50 years." "You're a lot better positioned to do that in the High Desert than you are in Riverside or Ontario even if you could find a large-enough parcel," Parno said. "Down there you're more restricted to serving Southern California." The Victor Valley is a better option.
When it's finished, Southern California Logistics Center at SCLA will create approximately 24,000 jobs, along with another 18,500 supporting jobs in surrounding communities, Victorville Mayor Terry Caldwell said in a release. Mayor Caldwell is also chairman of the Southern California Logistics Airport Authority. The project will generate about $3 billion a year in economic activity, Mayor Caldwell said in the release. Stirling Capital is based in Foothill Ranch in Orange County. It is operated by Dougall Agan and Chris Downey, both of whom have developed more than $3 billion worth of projects in Southern California, according to the release. The 2,500-acre Southern California Logistics Centre is part of Southern California Logistics Airport. SCLA is an 8,500-acre freight transportation hub made up of air, rail and ground components. The Southern California Logistics Airport, which handles cargo flights only, covers 2,500 acres. The planned 3,500-acre Southern California Rail Complex will feature 20 million square feet of distribution and manufacturing space at SCLA. Stirling Capital's 1-million- square-foot building will be located about three miles from Interstate 15, one of the busiest freight corridors in the United States, Parno said. The building will be attractive to any company looking for a western United States distribution hub. The building, which will join four similar light-industrial structures at the logistics center developed by Stirling Capital, will cost about $5 million to construct. All five buildings will cover about 6.5 million square feet on 350 acres, according to a Stirling Capital release. About 200 people are expected to work in the new structure, Parno said. CB Richard Ellis will market the development. The building could handle up to four tenants, but Stirling Capital - which specializes in master-planned communities and major industrial land renovations -- would prefer to lease to one tenant. It's going to be the biggest light-industrial building in the High Desert, without question." The President of Lee & Associates Commercial Real Estate Services' Victorville office said he knows of no larger logistical building in the High Desert than Stirling Capital's latest project.” We’re going to recommend it to any of our clients who are looking for industrial space." "We'd be crazy not to. It's a tough market, no question about it, but I would expect it to fill up pretty quickly. There's a good labor pool to draw from up here." |
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| FIVE WAL-MART SUPERCENTERS ARE PLANNED FOR THE INLAND EMPIRE’S VICTOR VALLEY | |||
According to the Victorville Daily Press, January 20, 2008, five Wal-Mart Supercenters are expected to open in the Victor Valley portion of the Inland Empire over the next two years. Three stores are proposed for Victorville, one for Apple Valley and one for Hesperia. These Supercenters are expected to nearly double the size of a regular Wal-Mart and sell food, including fresh produce. Each store is expected to generate $750,000 per year in local tax revenues according to John Mendez, spokesman for Wal-Mart in Southern California.
Wal-Mart already has regular discount stores in Apple Valley and in Victorville, as well as a distribution center in Apple Valley. The chain’s interest in expanding came from a combination of population growth and requests from customers for more stores. With the addition of the Supercenters, High Desert residents may see prices drop at other major grocery stores. Here are the five planned Supercenters: Victorville: In Victorville, at the Dunia Plaza Shopping Center on Bear Valley Road and I-15, there is planned a Wal-Mart Supercenter combined with a Sam’s Club, as well as three additional parcels for future development. The entire project is expected to employ 720 people on a 33-acre retail site. The Wal-Mart portion will be 231,000 square feet and include an in-store and drive-through pharmacy, a garden center and an auto center. The second proposed Victorville store would be near the corner of Palmdale Road and Highway 395. The third would be on Ridgecrest, near Spring Valley Lake. Wal-Mart is conducting environmental reviews at the sites. City officials are expecting approval later this year, which would mean a possible opening of late 2009 or early 2010. Apple Valley: The proposed Apple Valley store would be on the southeast corner of Highway 18 and Dale Evans Parkway, between Thunderbird Road and Civic Center Park. The 260,000-square-foot project is scheduled to be reviewed by the town's Planning Commission in early 2008, according to the town’s Web site. Hesperia: The Hesperia store will be on the corner of Main Street and Escondido Avenue. Wal-Mart is finishing their environmental review there, said city spokeswoman Kim Summers. She anticipates the project will be approved and they are expected to break ground this fall. |
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| FEDEX COMING TO SCLA IN 2008 | |||
According to the Victorville Daily Press, January 2, 2008, Victorville Mayor Terry Caldwell announced that the Fortune 500 Company, FedEx, will be the newest tenant at SCLA. FedEx agreed to rent an 83,000-square-foot hangar at SCLA, creating an estimated 35 to 50 new jobs.
While the economy has slowed in some sectors, such as residential — commercial and industrial permits in Victorville have increased by 23 percent over the last year, said Caldwell. Caldwell also announced that Rubbermaid, already doing business at SCLA, will be expanding their facilities and grow to roughly one million square feet. Those projects combined with 520,000 square feet of multi-tenant industrial and distribution space and two new hangars being built will make 2008 a better year than 2007, Mayor Caldwell said. |
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| CARL ROSS OWNS A REAL ESTATE EMPIRE IN THE VICTOR VALLEY | |||
According to the Victorville Daily Press, August 7, 2007, Carl Ross, the former owner of Lynx Golf Club Manufacturing Company,
today owns a commercial real estate empire in the Victor Valley. His recent acquisitions include more than 1,000 acres of
industrial land in north Apple Valley surrounding the Apple Valley Airport, as well as 250 acres of
prime retail property in Hesperia. His other land holdings in the Victor Valley include 250 acres in Hesperia at Main Street and Interstate 15, where he is planning a major retail project. Immediately adjacent to his property is a 370,000-square-foot project anchored by a Super Target. Ross also owns a 2,000-acre ranch along the Mojave River south of Silver Lakes, which Ross looks at as a possible residential development. “I’m sure people laughed at me when I started buying land in the Victor Valley three years ago. They are not laughing now.”
“New development in the Inland Empire is going over the hill to the Victor Valley. I think that will be the hot spot over the next 5 to 10 years,” Ross said. The hot market for industrial property in Apple Valley has elevated land prices in the area around the Apple Valley Airport, according to a senior vice president of CB Richard Ellis. Not only is industrial land in Apple Valley rising in price, it is also becoming more difficult to assemble large parcels of property, Ross said. “It’s easy to buy five or 10 acres, but if you want something larger than 50 acres, it is hard to get,” he said. Ross is now the CEO of Safari Properties, and developed the Safari Business Center in Ontario featuring 1.3 million square feet of space. He also owns and manages the Safari Business Park, a half-million-square-foot project in Las Vegas. |
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| MAYOR OF VICTORVILLE PREDICTS UNPRECEDENTED ECONOMIC BOOM IN VICTORVILLE IN 2007 | |||
According to the Victorville Daily Press, January 4, 2007, the year 2007 may be the beginning of an unprecedented boom time for the city of Victorville, according to Victorville Mayor Caldwell.” Victorville is alive, well, and better off today than when we gave the State of the City last year.” The Mayor also said: “We are ahead of the curve in terms of economic prosperity by every measure that economists use.”
At the center of that prosperity is the city’s effort to reshape the Southern California Logistics Airport into a distribution hub for consumer goods.” SCLA will be the largest rail logistics facility west of the Mississippi River.” “What’s going on at SCLA will soon rival what’s going on any place in this country.” Jobs created at SCLA have so far remained in the area of aircraft maintenance and repair, but the Mayor assured the business community that the incoming positions would be high-end logistics jobs that would boost the quality of life for all residents of the Victor Valley. According to the Victorville Daily Press in another article on January 4, 2007, City officials are in talks with the Port Authority of Long Beach to explore Victorville’s contribution to the statewide flow of goods to consumers.” In an attempt to answer the question on how to better move goods statewide, John Pope, media relations manager for the Port of Long Beach, said: “Victorville could potentially be a part of our solution.” Plans are in the works to transform SCLA into a multi-modal facility and inland port designed to receive both domestic and international goods for distribution throughout the country. Such a logistics industry at SCLA could bring with it high-quality jobs, and with the interest by the Port Authority of Long Beach, officials hope the jobs are finally coming en masse. Such a catalyst would make possible a 5,000-acre master planned community in Victorville, which would be centered on a high-speed train station to Las Vegas and would be nestled at the crux of Interstate 15 and the new E-220 corridor to Palmdale. The prospects for Victorville would make it possible to have a resort where business travelers can attend a seminar, then board a high-speed train to Las Vegas for a little blackjack — all in time to be back for a good-night’s sleep and more networking the next day. With its proximity to Southern California Logistics Airport and the new east-west corridor, Victorville will be the key City of the Victor Valley in a few years, said Victorville’s Development Director, Bill Webb. He foresees a capacity of 80,000 living units, 130 million square feet of commercial space and 9 million square feet for industrial use. In February 2007, the city will break ground on a rail spur that will be the linchpin of a multi-modal logistics hub — adding rail service to the already-available air and trucking capacity. Victorville has been planning for more than a year to build its own multi-modal facility. After several months of land acquisitions, the city has 95 percent of the right-of-way to bring rail service to SCLA, said city spokeswoman Yvonne Hester. She went on to say that construction will commence this year. In addition to the rail spur, a private developer is planning to build several million square feet of speculative development at the SCLA complex, hoping to attract distribution companies who need cross-dock facilities. The developer, Stirling Enterprises, has already announced, in its submittals to the city, its plans to build at SCLA a 400,000-square foot warehouse for Atlanta based consumer-products giant, Newell Rubbermaid. In addition, Victorville and its partner, Inland Energy, are submitting their application to the California Energy Commission for "Victorville No. 2", a 550-megawatt natural gas-fired plant with 50 megawatts of solar input. |
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| 407,000 SQ. FT. NEWEL RUBBERMAID DISTRIBUTION CENTER BREAKS GROUND AT SCLA IN 2007 | |||
According to the Victorville Daily Press, April 5, 2007,
Newell Rubbermaid broke ground on a 407,000-square foot distribution center for office-products at the Southern California Logistics Airport. Rubbermaid has a contractual option with Stirling to extend the SCLA facility to 1 million square feet, and then build another 1 million-square-foot building in five years.
The Rubbermaid building, which sits on a 49-acre parcel, would be the largest construction project at the Southern California Logistics Airport. Newell-Rubbermaid makes the famous Sharpie pen, the Rolodex, among other things. It also owns the stroller company Graco Children’s Products and makes goods in several categories: cleaning and organizational products, window coverings, tools and hardware, and cookware. The Distribution center will employ about 150 people, said Ray Johnson, President of Global Manufacturing & Supply Chain for Newell Rubbermaid. “This is a great day for Victorville,” Johnson said. “It’s also a great day for us.” The 407,000-square-foot building will be the linchpin of the company’s distribution network, allowing Newell Rubbermaid to reduce its worldwide warehouses from 96 to 50. Newell Rubbermaid chose Victorville because of affordable land, incentives from the city, accessibility to major roadways and a tested labor. “We looked at Ontario, we looked in the L.A. basin, and we just couldn’t cost-justify it,” Garcia said. Victorville was clearly the right answer for Rubbermaid. The Developer, Stirling Enterprises, hopes the Rubbermaid Distribution Center will place Victorville on the global logistics map — making it the next distribution powerhouse in the Inland Empire. “Momentum has now been activated thanks to Rubbermaid,” said Dougall Agan, principal with Stirling. But the industrial project is just one component of Global Access. Rail Company, BNSF, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the city to explore the construction of a 3,500-acre inter-modal rail yard. |
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| U.S. HIGHWAY 395 IS PROPOSED IN 2007 AS A MAJOR EXPRESSWAY BETWEEN ADELANTO AND KRAMER JUNCTION | |||
According to the Victorville Daily Press, January 21, 2007, the San Bernardino Associated Governments (“SANBAG”) plans to unveil proposals to realign Highway 395 and convert the route into an expressway between Interstate 15 and Palmdale Rd. in Adelanto and between Interstate 15 and Highway 58 at Kramer Junction. The improvements would expand Highway 395 to three lanes in each direction between I-15 and Palmdale Road in Adelanto and should improve traffic flow by separating slow truck traffic from faster moving vehicles, said SANBAG spokeswoman Cheryl Donahue. “As an expressway, Highway 395 will have fewer entrance and exit points, with interchanges along the six-lane portion and pocket exit lanes along the four-lane section.” But construction on the project won't begin until 2015 at the earliest.
Donahue said that SANBAG will kick off its environmental study in February 2007 with the goal of completing it and selecting a realignment route for Highway 395 by the end of the year. Caltrans is working on a parallel study that covers more of the project area and will take three or four years longer, she said. 
Even before the realignment proposals are revealed, the future expressway is already impacting planning decisions on I-15 interchanges in Hesperia. While local interchanges can be spaced one mile apart under Caltrans regulations, interchanges that involve a freeway or expressway must be two miles from other exits to allow for more vehicles crossing lanes, Donahue said.
“We’re trying to plan for the future,” said John Leveillee, Hesperia’s city engineer. The City Council voted on Jan. 17 to fund a study on the possibility of putting an interchange at Muscatel Street and keeping Joshua Street, which is close to where Highway 395 meets I-15, as an over crossing. |
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| SCLA READY FOR $340 MILLION EXPANSION, CREATING 13,149 JOBS AND 5.78 MILLION SQUARE FEET OF BUILDINGS IN 2006 | |||
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According to the Victorville Daily Press, April 29, 2006, the Southern California Logistics Airport
Authority is set to approve a $340-million plan that would develop 5.78 million square feet of industrial, manufacturing and logistics space at the Southern California Logistics Airport. The plan is set to create a projected 13,149 jobs according to SCLA officials. Currently SCLA employs around 2,500 people. Top tenants include General Electric, Liberty West, Pratt & Whitney, Leading Edge, US 101, Boeing, Southern California Aviation, and Heavylift Helicopters.
“There is a demand pressure for larger buildings of up to 1 million square feet, and we want to provide them for tenants,” said Dougall Agan, principal of Stirling International, the private development partner at SCLA. Agan explained that industrial space is running thin in Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino County and more companies have become interested in what SCLA can offer as an alternative Agan said the lack of industrial space in Southern California would be a direct job-generator at SCLA. City Manager Jon Roberts said the project will substantially accelerate the development of jobs and clients at the Southern California Logistics Airport. Moreover, Inland Energy Group President Buck Johns said that SCLA stands to gain much with the shortage of space in the ports of Los Angeles and San Pedro.” With 45 percent of imports in the U.S. coming in through those ports, something has to give," he said. "SCLA is a perfect example of an Inland Port." The deal to build-out the land would include a commitment from the city of Victorville to invest $60 million for infrastructure, Roberts said. City Attorney, Andre De Bortnowsky, said infrastructure development would include the construction of roads, curbs, gutters and sewers. The money to fund these projects would come from redevelopment funds. Dividend Capital Trust will fund most of the $280 million for construction of spec buildings, Roberts said. The project would be developed in three phases. Phase one is scheduled to be completed within a 30-month period, according to SCLA documents Councilman Bob Hunter said companies like Dividend Capital Trust have recognized the growing potential of the Southern California Logistics Airport.” No company would invest so much money unless they stood to get a return on their investment,” Hunter said. “This deal is really going to impact the development of the High Desert economy by creating thousands of jobs.” According to the Victorville Daily Press, October 25, 2005, to fulfill the demand for workers at SCLA, Sterling is working directly with four area junior colleges, including Victor Valley College, to attract mechanics and other personnel needed at this Airport. "Our plan is to start a certificate course that will be taught at SCLA in cooperation with Victor Valley College, San Bernardino Valley College, Chaffey College and Barstow Community College." |
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| BNSF ANNOUNCES $50 MILLION RAIL LINE THROUGH THE CAJON PASS TO THE VICTOR VALLEY IN 2006 | |||
According to the Victorville Daily Press, March 18, 2006, Burlington Northern Santa Fe has recently announced plans to build a third set of tracks through the Cajon Pass. Officials with BNSF said the construction of a third rail line from Devore through the Cajon Pass will cost an estimated $50 million, a price the company is willing to pay to increase capacity to move freight out of California. The project will start construction at the end of this year and is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2007. For the construction of the rail, BNSF will hire around 200 employees and the project will have a $10 million impact on the regional economy.
“The Cajon Pass is an extremely important piece to our infrastructure and we are putting many people to work on this project to make sure it gets completed in a 9- to 12-month time line,” BNSF spokeswoman Lena Kent said. Kent said that approximately 100 trains travel the Cajon Pass on a daily basis and that creates bottlenecks that also delay the transportation of cargo.” Time is money in this business and a third rail would help decrease the number of delays we have in that area,” Kent added. According to economist John Husing, the installation of a third rail line is also key to the construction of the $200 million multimodal facility, which BNSF is looking to build either in Barstow or Victorville. “BNSF is absolutely committed to build a third line to increase capacity in shipping out cargo out of Southern California,” Husing said. “This move is helpful for everybody, because BNSF will be able to move more cargo and local cities could benefit by the influx of more logistics companies moving to the area.” Husing said the third rail through the Cajon Pass will benefit the expansion of SCLA, which will have a rail spur linking the airport with the BNSF main line. Victorville Councilman Terry Caldwell said the expansion to a third rail signifies an opportunity to attract clients at SCLA. |
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| VICTOR VALLEY’S POPULATION IS PREDICTED TO GROW TO 1,000,000 BY 2013 | |||
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Victorville Daily Press, May 11, 2005, the Victor Valley will be home to a million people within eight
years. That's the prediction of Victorville Mayor Mike Rothschild, who based the forecast on market
research accounting for the addition of a rail spur and a resulting surge of homegrown businesses at
Southern California Logistics Airport and elsewhere. The Mayor said:” We’ll be creating a job market
independent of the L.A. market," he said. "(The rail spur and
Southern California Logistics Airport)
will bring in 7,000 to 15,000 jobs directly. And there will be a spin-off of 40,000 to 50,000 of other jobs
as restaurants, barbers and such opening up."
Independent research indicates that Mayor Rothschild may not be far off the mark — at least not by too many years. Apple Valley spokeswoman Kathie Martin, citing figures compiled by the Southern California Association of Governments said there would be 1 million more people in Victor Valley by 2020. The population of the incorporated communities of Adelanto, Victorville, Hesperia and Apple Valley totaled 273,404 as of January 1, 2005, and that did not include the unincorporated areas such as Phelan, Silver Lakes, Spring Valley Lake, Wrightwood, Pinion Hills and Lucerne Valley, where tens of thousands more live. Mayor Rothschild's prediction comes on the heels of a report released last week by the California Department of Finance showing that three of the four fastest-growing communities in San Bernardino County in 2004 were in the Victor Valley. In terms of percentage, Victorville was the eighth-fastest growing city in California behind Colma, a small town in the Bay area, according to the Department of Finance report. However, with 8,326 new residents for a 10.7 percent population increase, Victorville was the second fastest-growing city among those with a population of over 50,000. Yuba City, north of Sacramento, was No. 1 at 13.5 percent. Adelanto grew by 9.5 percent (2,023 new residents) in 2004, while Hesperia (5,370 new residents) grew by 7.6 percent. Apple Valley (2,141 new residents) grew by 3.5 percent, while Barstow (195 new residents) grew by 0.8 percent. Hesperia spokeswoman Kim Summers cited the building of 16,000 homes in the new community of Rancho Las Flores within the next three years as evidence that the growth rate will continue in that city. |
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 According to the Victorville Daily Press, August 10, 2005, Southern California Edison announced plans for the world's largest solar energy facility to be built near Victorville. When complete, the 4,500-acre solar generating station will be capable of producing more electricity than all other U.S. solar projects combined, officials with Southern California Edison said Tuesday. The plant is designed to have an hourly output of 500 megawatts, making it the most powerful alternative energy source in the nation. The plant is to be built and owned by Stirling Energy Systems of Phoenix, which will install 20,000 solar collection dishes, each 37 feet in diameter. Southern California Edison will purchase the electricity generated by the plant. "At a time of rising fossil fuel costs and increased concern about greenhouse-gas emissions, the Stirling project would provide enough clean power to serve 278,000 homes for the entire year." Southern California Edison signed a 20-year commitment to buy all energy output by Stirling at the Victorville facility.
The Victor Valley Solar Energy Plant makes sense at a time that the current price of oil is reaching an all time high of $64 a barrel. Construction for the project will begin in 2008 with a projected completion date of 2011.The Victor Valley was chosen for construction of the plant, because of its rich solar resources. “The Victor Valley has many days of sun, and is close to the area we are going to be serving," Osborn said. Stirling officials estimated that construction of the four-year project would provide 1,500 local jobs. Once the plant is fully operational, it will require between and 150 and 250 high-end jobs. The Stirling dish technology converts thermal energy to electricity by using a mirror array to focus the sun's rays on the receiver end of a Stirling engine. Tests conducted by SCE and the Sandia National Laboratories have shown that the Stirling dish technology is almost twice as efficient as other solar energy technologies. |
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| THE PHENOMENAL GROWTH RECORD OF THE VICTOR VALLEY | |||
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Care: The dynamic population growth of the Victor Valley has resulted
in great strides in health care with the impressive multi-story Kaiser
Permanente Building in Victorville. The recent $40 million expansion
of St. Mary Regional Medical Center in Apple Valley has provided advanced
levels of service in cardiology, radiology, surgery, emergency care
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Dealerships and Auto Mall: The population growth of the region has also brought new car dealerships around Interstate 15, including Valley Hi Toyota and Honda, Rancho Motors, Sunland Ford, and the recently announced, new Suzuki dealership. The CEO of the Suzuki dealership said: "This will be one of the largest stand-alone Suzuki dealerships in the entire nation." The Japanese carmaker was looking for another Southern California location, and they chose Victorville, because of the excellent demographics in the Victor Valley. According to the Daily Press, June 24, 2003, the city of Victorville is building an auto mall on the land previously occupied by the Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Museum. The property is situated between Interstate 15 and the soon-to-be-extended Civic Drive, and from the Victorville Superior Court north to Roy Rogers Drive. The museum building will be torn down and Civic Drive extended in the near future. Greiner Buick-Pontiac-GMC, Hi Desert Kia and Victorville Motors Inc. have committed to moving from their current locations to the planned mall space. Victorville City Councilman Mike Rothschild said the mall would connect with interstate 15 and use massive freeway signage to draw customers. The Vice President and General Manager of Victorville Motors, Tim Watts, said he hoped to be open by March 2004. Hi Desert Kia officials said they were aiming for an April 2004 opening date. Greiner Buick-Pontiac-GMC estimated doors would open by August 2004. City Councilman, Mike Rothschild, said that the 80 acres of city-owned land would be utilized for new-car dealerships because of their sales tax potential. "If you can have one type of business, you want new-car dealerships. They are the king of the sales tax," Rothschild said. |
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Tire & Rubber Company: Goodyear located in the Victor Valley last year,
and developed an 830,000-square-foot manufacturing and distribution
center in Victorville. Goodyear's Vice President, Gerry Holthaus, commented
on why Goodyear chose the Victor Valley. He said that: "Victorville
was the most cost effective location from the standpoint of labor, land
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| VICTOR VALLEY'S SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LOGISTICS AIRPORT: SCLA | |||
 The former "George Airforce Base" in
Victorville has been converted into an international cargo airport. It is located just 50 miles from Los Angeles County, and only an hour and fifteen-minute drive from Disneyland and
Orange County. It is strategically positioned in Victorville off Interstate 15, which is traveled extensively by motorists going to Las Vegas and Los Angeles. In 1999, the Southern California Logistics Airport Authority reached an agreement with Stirling Enterprises LLC for a $418 million development plan for this Airport. SCLA was created by Stirling Enterprises. SCLA boasts two ten thousand feet runways and a 9000-foot runway. One runway has been extended to 13,000 feet. Now the Department of Transportation has approved a $2.85 million dollar grant to extend the main runway to 15,500 feet, giving it one of the longest runways in the United States. Congressman Jerry Lewis was also instrumental in obtaining a previous $4.85 million dollar grant for runway extension.
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| THE PARADE OF GLOBAL BILLION DOLLAR COMPANIES LOCATING AT SCLA HAS ALREADY BEGUN | |||
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| Southern California's international cargo volume is currently 300 million tons, and is projected to triple over the next 15 years, according to the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). To meet this demand, SCLA is well positioned to accommodate this future growth. We believe this is just the beginning, and that SCLA is poised to become the most significant international cargo airport in the nation. | |||
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POWER AND WATER: TWO ESSENTIAL FACTORS IN THE CONTINUED GROWTH OF THE VICTOR VALLEY |
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Victor Valley's High Desert Power Plant Is Now Operational At SCLA
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Victor Valley Approves Its Second Major Power Plant At SCLA
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Victor Valley's Water SupplyThe Victor Valley gets its water through the Mojave Water Agency (MWA), which gets its water from the California Aqueduct. The Mojave Water Agency has been very active in water development for the Victor Valley. It held a Ceremony after it completed Phase 1 of the Mojave River Pipeline in February 1997 at the California Aqueduct near Duncan and White Roads in Adelanto. The first section of pipe starts at the California Aqueduct, heads north along the western Adelanto boundary as far as the north end of the Southern California Logistics Airport, then heads east on Colusa Road to Helendale Road. As a state water contractor, MWA is entitled to receive an annual allotment of 75,800-acre feet of water from the State Water Project via the California Aqueduct. The California Department of Water Resources has approved a request by the Mojave Water Agency allowing the agency to access additional 25,000 acre-feet of water annually to meet future water demands within its area of operation. This represents a 50 percent increase over the agency's current entitlement, and enough water for the region through 2015, according to Larry Rowe, Water Manager. The water rights were purchased by the sale of $26.2 million in certificates of participation issued through the Mojave Water Agency. The issue was underwritten by the Newport Beach, Calif., public finance firm of O'Connor & Company Securities. The California Aqueduct was built at a cost of $3.7 billion. The Aqueduct provides supplemental water to approximately 20 million Californians and about 660,000 acres of irrigated farmland, according to the California Department of Water Resources. What effect do you think this will have on the growth of the Victor Valley? |
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| The answer is prohibitive government regulations and expensive land costs in the larger cities are pushing companies and new residents to the Victor Valley. | |||
Government Regulations In Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego Counties, businesses have to deal with all the requirements of the South Coast Air Quality Management Agency (SCAQMD) and other agencies, where it could take up to 2 years to get a permit to begin development. In the Victor Valley businesses can expand with the friendly, cooperative Air Quality Management District (AQMD) and other government agencies, which have a reputation for being very, very pro-business. |
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Affordable Land
In Los Angeles, San Diego and Orange Counties, the median priced home has soared to an average of about $600,000. In the Victor Valley,
the median comparable new home sells for about $250,000. In Los Angeles, San Diego and Orange Counties,
undeveloped commercially zoned land parcels sell from about $20.00 to $60.00 per square foot, which is about
$870,000 to $2.6 million per acre. Even in the Inland Empire, undeveloped land values have already become expensive. Commercially zoned vacant land in Ontario, Chino Hills and the Moreno Valley may be priced from about $10 to $25 per square foot or $435,000 to $1,089,000 per acre.
On the other hand, the Victor Valley, located in the Inland Empire North, offers reasonably priced property in a dynamic growing region.
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Professional Land Corporation specializes in choice, close in land parcels in prime locations in the Victor Valley. Many of these properties are zoned residential, industrial or commercial. Prime acreage parcels can be purchased with affordable long term financing. |
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Burlington
Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company has more than 34,000 route
miles of track covering 28 states and two Canadian provinces. The
rail easement into SCLA will enable manufacturers and distributors
to easily transport goods into markets throughout the United States.
Robert Brendza, regional director of industrial development for
BNSF, said: 'Southern California Logistics Airport represents a
tremendous opportunity for our Railroad Company.' "By constructing
rail infrastructure directly into the facility, SCLA will insure
that the full range of multimodal transportation services are available
to its tenants."
According to the San Bernardino Sun, April 23,
2003, the 
According to the Victorville Daily Press, March 12, 2005, the Victorville City
Council voted 3-0 to allocate $5 million for a permit to build a 500-megawatt
solar/gas-fired power plant near the existing