Out & About – 12/29/2010

Main Street
A trolley strolls along Main Street near City Hall on a rainy Wednesday
in downtown Riverside.
2011Hunter Hobby Park 2011New station 2011Arriving passengers 2011Riding the rails 2011New playground Saturday morning marked the public reopening of Riverside’s Hunter Hobby Park following nearly $7 million in renovations for one of the city’s most unique parks. The reopening also means the public is once again invited to “ride the rails” with the Riverside Live…
A drive past the site of the Regency Tower site in downtown Riverside shows work is well underway on the 3-level, underground parking garage for the $70 million office building. The past few weeks has seen the arrival of an on-site crane used for the building’s skeletal steel frame. Over the next several months, downtown…
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…
Be sure to check out the remaining days Saturation Fest 08, which began earlier this week in downtown Riverside. Saturation Art & Music Festival The eight-year-old event, which runs through Sunday evening (Oct. 19) at several sites in downtown, brings together the local arts and music community for 6 days of arts and, well, music….
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…
No real surprise here, but Riverside County was the fastest growing county percentage-wise in California in 2003. The county, which added 76,000 residents in 2003, has been among the top 3 fastest growing counties for the past 3 years and in the top 10 for much of the past 20 years. Riverside County is the…