U.S. retail sales will grow between 2.7 and 3.7 percent this year compared with 2024, with sales expected to total between $5.42 trillion and $5.48 trillion by the end of this year, according to the National Retail Federation in Washington, D.C. The 2025 sales forecast compares with 3.6 percent annual sales …
Read More »Barbershop chain comes to Inland Center Mall
Signature Barbering, a chain of men’s barber shops, has opened at Inland Center Mall in San Bernardino. The 1,222-square-foot shop, a full-service operation that offers stylized haircuts and its own line of haircare products, is located near JC Penney near one of the mall’s parking structures, according to a statement. …
Read More »ONT wins advertising awards
Ontario International Airport has won an American Advertising Federation Award for its “Not So Fast” rebranding campaign. The Federation’s Inland Empire chapter recently presented to the airport a Silver “Addy” Award in the Television Advertising category for that campaign, which stressed the convenience of using Ontario International, according to a …
Read More »Entrepreneurial Resource Center opens in Palm Desert
The Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship at Cal State San Bernardino has opened an Entrepreneurial Resource Center in Palm Desert. The resource center, the IECE’s third such facility in the Empire, will help aspiring entrepreneurs in the Coachella Valley start their own business, and established business owners expand their base …
Read More »Hemet Auto Mall gets upgrade
Hemet Auto Mall has completed a pavement renovation that took 80 working days to complete. The $2.6 million project, which was marked recently with a grand reopening ceremony, improves access to the facility at the southeast corner of Florida Avenue and Warren Road, according to a statement on the city’s …
Read More »Local med school grads learn their residency assignments
Recent graduates of the California University of Science and Medicine in Colton have received their residency placements. Sixty six percent will perform their residency in Southern California, with 28 percent of those graduates remaining in the Inland Empire, according to a statement released by the university. Most of the remaining …
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