Business View Magazine | July 2019

322 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JULY 2019 RIVER ISLANDS BUSINESS PARK River Islands is Northern California’s premier mixed-use master planned community. Its owner and developer, the privately held Cambay Group, has invested almost 30 years into the successful assembly of approximately 5,000 acres of land into single ownership, the attainment of entitlements from city, state and Federal government agencies, and the creation of the backbone infrastructure necessary to bring the project to market. The River Islands master plan, at build-out, at a glance: • 11,000 residences, including rental, single family and multifamily units • Hundreds of acres of parks, lakes and recreational amenities • 350 acres for 5 million square feet of space dedicated to R&D, campus and office space • A downtown retail district, now in the planning • As many as nine schools, offering a top level educational experience for students from kindergarten through high school • A proposed future transit station for high speed rail to the Bay Area Located in San Joaquin County, the River Islands Business Park benefits from its geography, roughly equidistant from Sacramento, San Francisco and San Jose. River Islands is just an hour away from California state capital in Sacramento, the San Francisco Bay Area and the Silicon Valley. ...... For more information, please visit our website riverislands.com treatment facilities, to building new schools, to building in-tract streets. “We have a significant amount of investment going on in the community,” Dell’Osso explains. “We try to hire locally for all of our employees who will work on the different construction items. It’s not always doable, but a lot of people are able to stay in this location because of the jobs that have been created out here. There’s about 80,000 people that commute over the Altamont Pass from our region every single day, so the employment park that we’re building, the infrastructure that we’re building, all these jobs that are being created, we think are very important to keep those employees here where they live.” Dell’Osso notes, “We have a Valley Link station proposed for River Islands, right along the boundary of the employment center that could be a transit-oriented development. We haven’t finalized the number yet, but we think we’re going to have anywhere between 1,250 to 1,500 apartments and condominiums along that corridor, so we’re trying to identify the residential opportunities around the transit.” Shelley Burcham, City of Lathrop Economic Development Administrator, adds, “The Valley Link rail provides opportunity for businesses in the pictured below Lathrop Economic Develpment Administrator, Shelley Burcham