Best Fit, Least Cost, Quickest Activation
Riverside County, with its world class, clean-tech research facilities, diverse and abundant renewable energy resources and sustainable building policies offers the ideal environment for the Air Resources Board (ARB) relocation to thrive. Nowhere else in California can one find better accommodations for the world’s most advanced air quality research at the greatest convenience and lowest cost than in Riverside County.
Consolidating ARB’s research facilities in Riverside County, offers the most cost-effective scenario by delivering all of the following:
Best Fit
- 14.5 acres of shovel ready land + clean title
- Co-location with UCR/CE-CERT world class research facilities
- Research synergies with CE-CERT and UCR, which received 114 National Science Foundation awards in 2014
- Pipeline of future employees for ARB
- Laboratory/Technology Friendly BMP Zoning
- Access to 60 eminent professors and researchers
Least Cost
- Over $25,000,000 in laboratory & equipment savings
- $610,000 in utility incentives
- $275,000 in annual electric savings
- 17% lower cost of living and 20% lower cost of housing in the region
- 21% less expensive turn-key facilities
Quickest Startup
- Advance team on-site in 1 year
- Delivery of facilities 365 days sooner than current estimates
- County Financed construction
- LEED Platinum construction experience
Transportation & Circulation
- Apex of three major freeways (60, 215, 91)
- Commuter access –Hunter Park Metrolink station
- LA/Ontario International Airport within 18 miles
- Local alternative fueling stations