RivCo Could Soon Get Some Of CA's Largest Warehouse Projects: Report

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA — Seven of the state's 10 biggest warehouse proposals could be coming to Riverside County — an area that is already impacted by tons of massive warehouses.

Now, some 745 football fields worth of warehouses and logistics space could be on the county's horizon, Mike McCarthy, a Riverside environmental consultant, told the Press-Enterprise.

These projects are currently being studied for their environmental impact, McCarthy said, citing public data.

But McCarthy is questioning whether the county can adapt to an influx of new logistics spaces.

“There’s already a ton of warehouses in the pipeline, and then we’re going to add a whole bunch more onto it, and I just don’t see that we have the infrastructure to handle it,” he told the newspaper.

Projects would stretch from Cathedral City to the Temescal Valley, south of Corona. And this recent list doesn't include what has already been approved. For example, the World Logistics Center, a warehouse that will be 40 million square feet in Moreno Valley, the paper reported.

Environmental advocates are concerned that the new proposals haven't incorporated an impact on the region's already hampered air quality.

“It’s unfortunate that the industry continues to expand in our backyards because we do not have the protections or reassurance that there will be enough mitigations to offset more toxins into a region with the worst air quality,” Aguayo a spokesperson for the Inland Empire's People’s Collective for Environmental Justice, told the paper.

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