Business View Magazine | February 2019

301 2017 and the other half,we expect to be conveyed in 2019,”Scully continues.“The idea, now, is for the City to enter into an agreement with some master industrial developer to expand the industrial use of the location, plus investment in the property to ex- pand space for business. It’s been an amazing proj- ect because, at this point,we’re up to 40 businesses out there and in a town that has a limited amount of industrial space, it’s given us the ability to create a job center.Our goal is to have a good job center that provides a livable wage where people from Riverbank and the surrounding area can work and live close by, because in the central San Joaquin Valley, there’s still a large portion of our population that commutes to the Bay area for work, every day.” Another ongoing, large-scale project in Riverbank is the Crossroads West project, a proposed 390-acre addition to an existing subdivision on the west side of town.“Some of the same developers have proposed a Part Two to that project,which includes about 2,100 new homes of different types, plus about 56 acres of retail and service commercial,” Scully reports.“There’s a housing need throughout the Valley, and in Riverbank, especially, there’s a de- mand for new homes.And we really like the com- mercial component of the project, as well, because AT A GLANCE RIVERBANK, CALIFORNIA WHAT: A city of 25,000 WHERE: On the Stanislaus River, in the Central San Joaquin Valley WEBSITE: www.www.riverbank.org