Mission Inn – Riverside, California by A Lefty
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Eight months after launching a new systematic parking district for downtown, the city of Riverside is again refining its Smart Park program. The program began in September 2006 establishing uniform parking zones across much of downtown (the only exception being the area around the county courthouse, which had a similar system already in place). Smart…
Since the early 2000s, Riverside has sought and encouraged more mixed-use and higher-density residential developments within the downtown core, specifically on portions of Market Street and along the Main Street pedestrian mall. Such mixed uses hearkens back to early Riverside (and America) where buildings downtown often had commercial (usually ground-floor) and residential components (upper floors)….
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Work is well underway remaking 4075 Main Street in downtown Riverside into the new home for Riverside County Public Defender. The 8-story building was Riverside’s first modern, mid-rise commercial office building when it opened in 1965. In April 1962, Greschner Investment Corp. of Santa Ana and Los Angeles-based Citizens National Bank* proposed the office building…
Fifteen months after beginning construction, Regency Tower in downtown Riverside is poised to receive its crown. Sitting alongside the under-construction office building is a 45-foot high, 80,000-pound steel and aluminum dome. In about a week, the dome will be perched atop the 10-story building. Developer Moshe Silagi says a special crane will used to perform…
This week marks the beginning of the yearly “Festival of Lights” in downtown Riverside. Every night for 5 weeks between Nov. 27 and Jan. 3 (excepting Christmas), several blocks of the newly refurbished Main Street pedestrian mall come alive for the holidays. The centerpiece of the Festival is the historic Mission Inn hotel, which will…
