Single-family home prices increased six percent in the Inland Empire in November year-over-year, according to data released Tuesday. Compared with October 2015, home prices in Riverside and San Bernardino counties were down 0.2 percent, Core Logic reported in its monthly Home Price Index and HPI Forecast. Both of those numbers …
Read More »Inland Empire Charity Receives Major Donation
Ontario-based Niagara Bottling Company has donated $100,000 to Stater Bros. Charities to help sponsor this year’s Believe Walk. The walk, scheduled to be held Oct. 2 in Redlands, attracts about 12,000 participants annually and has raised more than $3 million to fight cancer since it began in 2008, according to …
Read More »Manufacturing Index Drops
The Inland Empire’s purchasing managers index took a dramatic fall in December, dropping to its lowest point since 2009. The 42.1 index – down from 52.3 last month – is exactly one point below the benchmark for a shrinking economy if the index were to stay that low, – or …
Read More »Office Building Changes Hands
An office building in Redlands has been sold. The two-story structure at 1901 Orange Tree Lane sold for $3.5 million, said Rick Lazar, senior vice president with Coldwell Banker Commercial Sudweeks Group, which occupies about 10 percent of the structure. The buyer was a private investment group in Ontario. Coldwell …
Read More »More Gun Control Won’t Work
By Ed Hoffman Supposedly as a New Year’s resolution, President Obama announced he would unveil an executive action on gun control this week. For those who are unaware, executive actions are laws executed by the President to fulfill his personal agenda (that might be hyperbole but in Obama’s case, it’s …
Read More »New Leadership at Stater Bros.
Stater Bros Markets began a new era Monday, as Pete Van Helden officially took over as the company’s president and chief executive officer. Van Helden replaces Jack H. Brown, who will remain Stater Bros. executive chairman of the board of directors, company officials said. A 38-year veteran of the supermarket …
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