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Riverside officials, developer negotiating Northside project By Staff
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iverside city officials and developer Adrenaline Sports Resorts Collaborative are negotiating a deal to transform a portion of the Northside neighborhood with a recreational adventure park, hotel and conference center, new housing, a grocery store and restaurants. The City Council voted 7-0 on Feb. 25 to negotiate exclusively with ASR Collaborative. The developer has at least six months to work with city officials to acquire 126 acres of city-owned property north of Highway 60 to create the Riverside Adventure Center along with a mixed-use development consisting of housing, commercial and retail space. Officials said ASR's proposal is in line with the goals of the city's 2020 Northside Specific Plan. During the negotiating period the parties will hash out a binding agreement on price, sale terms, performance measures and key milestones. “This project has the potential to transform the Northside, honoring the wishes of the neighborhood while expanding our recreational opportunities for
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Riverside County operation distributes resources to unhoused Indio, Mecca residents
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By City News Service
iverside County Code Enforcement participated in a multi-agency operation that distributed resources to more than 25 unhoused people in Indio and Mecca, officials said Friday. The operation, split between different encampments, gave clothing, housing, food stamps and Medi-Cal resources to people at Landfill Road and Dillon Road in unincorporated Indio, under the bridge at 66th Avenue Bypass, and Coahuilla and Third Street in Mecca, according to a county statement. Units from Riverside County Behavioral Health the Department of Public Social Services were also involved. "This collaborative approach demonstrates the effectiveness of bringing multiple agencies together to provide See Homeless outreach Page 28
An artist's depiction shows the planned Northside Village Center. | Rendering courtesy of the city of Riverside
all residents of Riverside,” Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson said in a statement. “The combination of a lushly developed and free park with discounted fee-based adventure sports offers a new level of parks amenities in Riverside.” ASR has committed to pay fair market value for the land and does not require city funds for the park construction, officials said. The developer's operational team members have extensive experience delivering public and private projects and designing programming for the U.S. National White-
water Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, Riversport in Oklahoma City, and Montgomery Whitewater in Alabama. The ASR Collaborative is a partnership with Riverside-based Overland Development Company. The group has proposed $200 million to build "an 85-acre Riverside Adventure Center, with a heavily landscaped public park that connects to the existing Reid Park, biking, hiking, trails, climbing, play areas and open space, all for free," according to a
city statement. "For a fee, visitors could visit worldclass aquatic recreation facilities, including a whitewater rafting course, a wave lagoon with a surf park and boathouse, zip-line and rope courses, sport climbing walls and an amphitheater. Riverside residents would get discounts." The proposal also includes a Northside Village Center with a 45,000-squarefoot grocery store, restaurants and retail shops on 41 acres to the south of the project area; a four-story,
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Revamp of Seccombe Lake Park underway in San Bernardino By Staff
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he $13.8 million renovation of San Bernardino's Seccombe Lake Park got started Monday, city officials announced. The planned extensive revamp of the 44-acre park requires its closure for about a year. “This will be a complete revitalization of one of the crown jewels of our park system,” Interim Parks and Recreation Director Ernesto Salinas said in a statement. The project will install new amenities and restore existing infrastructure. Major upgrades planned for the city’s second-largest park include the restoration of the signature lake, new landscaping and irrigation, renovation of the gazebo and basketball courts, new lighting, concrete walking paths, restoration of the island in the middle of the See Lake park Page 27
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