Business View Civil and Municipal | Volume 2, Issue 7

142 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 2, ISSUE 7 RANCHO CUCAMONGA , CAL I FORNI A Arizona, San Diego, and Las Vegas. “Within half an hour you can be up in the mountains or out in the desert. We’ve got lots of recreational opportunities,” says Gillison. Rancho Cucamonga’s ideal location has helped push the city out of its traditional suburban role into something more urban. Bordered by Ontario to the south and Fontana to the east, the trio of cities combined have around 600,000 residents. According to Gillison. “It’s becoming a metropolitan area in the truest sense of the word. We are starting to see more corporations locate here, the airport to the south in Ontario has taken off, we’ve got high-speed rail coming in and we are seeing renewed interest coming out of the pandemic in people moving into nice, suburban communities where they feel there’s a good school system for their kids to go to school. They can buy a larger property, or their money can go a little bit further and they like it. At this point, the easiest way to think of it is – we are approaching 200,000 in population and becoming a large metropolitan area, but we still have a lot of the nice amenities that started as a small town.”