Business View Civil and Municipal | January 2021

126 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL JANUARY 2021 welcomed a Walmart-owned, 340,000-square- foot high-tech consolidation center last July. Also situated within what’s known locally as the Agua Mansa Industrial Corridor are Lineage Logistics, the world’s largest refrigerated warehousing company, and C.R. England, the nation’s largest refrigerated truck company. “The City of Colton itself has over 400 employers,” says Navarro. “And we’re trying to attract more businesses in the Agua Mansa corridor. Our developers are making offers and trying to purchase to assemble sites to accommodate a warehouse or a distribution centre. One deal that was successful was Hillwood Enterprises – a Ross Perot company. Hillwood developed a 400,000-square-foot facility and they landed a tenant called Avalon Apparel, a women’s clothing manufacturer based out of New York and Los Angeles. They’re sending their clothing to higher-end stores,” Elshof adds. “We actually have a couple of apparel companies at Agua. We also have a nice-sized food cluster, including a churros manufacturer—California Churros – and other bakeries and snack food manufacturers.” A GROWING CITY The southwestern portion of the City of Colton is known as Pellissier Ranch, and is the site of a proposed 336-acre planned community development that would include up to 874 residential dwelling units comprising a mix of 450 low density detached homes, 293 medium density conventional detached single-family homes, and 131 high density attached townhomes. The project, known as Roquet Ranch, also proposes non- residential uses of the acreage, including over 19 acres of recreational open space (located primarily on the northwest portion of the site), nearly 200 acres or preserved natural habitat, a one-acre fire station site, and a ten-acre school site. They’ve also just completed 175 single-family homes in the Hub City Centre area, near the Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (ARMC) and the newly accredited California University of Science and Medicine facility (CUSM). The ARMC