Urban Inland Empire: California’s Next Metropolis?

Did you know that the Inland Empire is the 15th largest labor market in the United States? That it is home to nearly 2 million working residents?

That’s on par with Houston, Atlanta, and Washington DC.

But the IE is different from similarly sized markets in a critical way: It has no ‘downtown’. No ‘urban core’ where jobs are densely located. Instead, jobs are scattered across the region and a huge share of the population drives west daily, to reach the coastal economies where they work.

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