Minority-owned businesses are thriving in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, a recently released study has found. Of the Inland Empire’s 60,280 businesses, 35 percent – 21,261 – were owned by minority entrepreneurs at the end of last year, according to the State of Entrepreneurship Minority Report, compiled by the Inland …
Read More »Palmerton named CSUSB department head
Lori Palmerton is Cal State San Bernardino’s new director of services to students with disabilities. Palmerton joins CSUSB after spending seven years as Cal State Fullerton’s director of disability support services, according to a statement on CSUSB’s website. “I am honored to have become a member of the pack here …
Read More »Link named Riverside’s building official
Patricia Link has been named Riverside’s building official. A 22-year veteran of building department administration, Link has spent the last four years as Riversides’s assistant building official, including a recent 10-month assignment as acting building official, according to a statement on the city’s website. Link held similar positions in Fullerton …
Read More »IE Women’s Business Center to Hold Conference
The Inland Empire Women’s Business Center will hold its Inland Prosperity Conference on Aug. 18 at the Marriott Riverside at the Convention Center. The 11th annual session will feature speakers from the business community, including keynote speaker Tara Lynn Gray, director of the California Office of the Small Business Advocate. …
Read More »CVB Financial reports second quarter earnings
CVB Financial Corp. in Ontario has reported net earnings of $55.8 million for the second quarter of 2023. Those numbers compared with $59.3 million in the first quarter of this year and $59.1 million for the second quarter of 2022, according to CVB Financial’s second-quarter earnings report, released July 26. Earnings …
Read More »Fontana turns down industrial project
Fontana has said no to a proposed three-building industrial project next to Jurupa Hills High School. The city council on July 25 voted 3-2 against changing the zoning designation of the project’s proposed 24-acre site from residential to industrial. Had it been approved, Acacia Real Estate Group in Newport Beach would …
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