Photo pool spotlight – 11/07/2010

Towering Palms by msamaclean
Flickr – Raincross Square photo pool
Got a great photo of downtown Riverside or the city in general? Add it to the Raincross Square photo pool. Or view what others have uploaded.

Towering Palms by msamaclean
Flickr – Raincross Square photo pool
Got a great photo of downtown Riverside or the city in general? Add it to the Raincross Square photo pool. Or view what others have uploaded.

Dallas-based Koll Development Co. recently announced that 1 of 5 “green” office projects currently under development nationwide will be at the Meridian business park in Riverside near March Air Reserve Base. Dubbed Intellicenter Riverside, the 3-story, 159,000 square foot office building will be built in accordance with LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) specifications….
Planners from Riverside and Orange counties are in the midst of an 18-month study to determine the best way to relieve commuter congestion between housing-rich Riverside and jobs-rich Orange. As it stands now, only two roads link the two counties: 91 Riverside Freeway and Highway 74 (Ortega Highway). Of these, the 91 is the primary…

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…
Downtown Riverside was bustling on Saturday with three separate events held within a few blocks of each other. First, the weekly Downtown Farmer’s Market drew the usual crowd with its offerings of fresh fruit, vegetables, breads and flowers. The certified event is held every Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Main Street between…
Arguably Riverside’s most interesting park, Fairmount Park is staging a comeback. After several years of neglect, the city recently completed various park improvements, including new gazebos, picnic tables and playgrounds as well as refurbishing of the boathouse, itself a 1995 replica of the original 1911 boathouse. One of the most expensive improvements was the dredging…
What began in late 2000 as www.orange-empire.com — a site primarily intended as a photographic journey around Inland Southern California — eventually morphed into www.raincrosssquare.com, an informal website created in mid-2006 with an emphasis on downtown Riverside and local history for the city of Riverside. The original site (orange-empire.com) was the first attempt at showcasing…