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Employees at the Inland Regional Center returned to work Monday, one month after the terrorist shooting there that left 14 people dead and 22 people wounded.
More than 500 people passed through the security fence and gates that surround the three-building complex at 1365 S. Waterman Ave. to go to work in Buildings 1 and 2, said Leeza Hoyt, spokeswoman for the regional center.
Building 3, where the Dec. 2 attacks occurred, will remain closed indefinitely.
“There’s been talk of reconfiguring it and talk of putting up a memorial,” Hoyt said of the structure, which is more of a conference center than a regular office building. “They really haven’t decided yet what they’re going to do.”
The victims were San Bernardino County employees who were using the building that day, not employees of the non-profit regional center.
The complex, which the regional center has occupied since 2009, serves more than 30,000 developmentally disabled people in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Since the tragedy, workers have operated offsite at different locations in both counties.
Most of the employees appeared to be glad to be getting back to work, Hoyt said.
“There was a feeling of things getting back to normal, and a sense of relief,” Hoyt said. “Some people said they missed the camaraderie of going to their workplace every day.”
