Hesperia | Strong Cities Strong State

A blog about Hesperia and future projects which are now underway! A desert community located at the top of the Cajon Pass, Hesperia has become known, not only for affordable housing, but also for the pleasant desert climate, beautiful scenery, stunning sunsets and clean air. Just minutes from the Cajon Pass, Hesperia provides hometown essence [...]

SANBAG approves $44M for Ranchero interchange

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Victor Valley motorists are closer to being able to get off Interstate 15 a little earlier, thanks to a decision by a regional transit authority. San Bernardino Associated Governments voted 24-0 on Wednesday to divert money from previously approved but now stalled regional transportation projects and send those funds to the long-awaited Ranchero interchange project. [...]

Everything You Need to Know About the High Desert Freeway

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Via The Source, Metro has released a new-fangled interactive map for its High Desert Corridor freeway project–it has all the latest crowdsourcing capabilities and even allows users to blast their comments on the project to social media sites. The map also has layers that show users all the juicy planning details, like route variations and [...]

“HESPERIA” Writers Theatre: Promised Land within a Gated Community

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Writers Theatre presents HESPERIA.  Jess wants  to escape her past.  So, she runs away from LA and relocates in Hesperia. via “HESPERIA” Writers Theatre: Promised Land within a Gated Community | The Fourth Walsh.

Silver Lakes homeowners to decide on rental cap

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HELENDALE • A controversial proposal to impose a rental cap on homes in the Silver Lakes residential community is up for election Saturday. The Silver Lakes Association is eyeing an amendment that would limit the number of rentals to no more than 25 percent of residential lots in the quiet lakefront community off National Trails [...]

REAL ESTATE: Apartment markets will get even tighter

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Commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap is expecting that Riverside and San Bernardino county residents will continue finding jobs as 2012 moves along. An estimated 22,700 jobs were created in the two-county region last year, most of them in the late summer and fall. That means a lot of people will move out of [...]

Public meetings on High Desert Corridor

• Victorville — From 6 to 8 p.m. Jan. 31 at Victorville City Hall, at 14343 Civic Drive • Adelanto — From 6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 1 in the Mavericks Conference Room at Stater Bros. Stadium, 1200 Stadium Way The meetings will start with an open house followed by presentations from 6:30 to 7 [...]

Vintage signs pointing to Victor Valley

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I stumble across this amusing photo from the AAA archives. I found this on the Facebook page Bizarre Los Angeles.

Bargain Bin Homes Fuel Housing Demand in Hardest-Hit Real Estate Markets

Below is an excerpt from a Trulia.com 11/21/11 press release: According to the Metro Movers Index, there are six times as many “inbound” home searches to the North Port–Bradenton–Sarasota, FL metro area by outsiders than “outbound” searches by locals. The index is above 4 for the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro area and around 2 for [...]

Foreclosure activity subsides in December

“I think we are seeing a little of the calm before the storm,” said Sharga. He believes foreclosures would have increased rather than declined last year if the robo-signing controversy had not disrupted the process, prompting banks to pull back until they could make sure they were in legal compliance. via REAL ESTATE: Foreclosure activity [...]