Located alongside the Santa Ana River, the gorgeous city of Riverside is the County seat for Riverside County and is the largest city in the San Bernardino - Riverside - Ontario area of Southern California. The city is the 4th biggest city inland after Fresno, Sacramento, and Bakersfield. The city presently hosts a population of around 300,430 individuals in its area of seventy square miles. Its is conveniently situated 60 miles east of Los Angeles.
The University of California, Riverside is situated within the city and is home to over forty acres of rare and unique plants. As well, there is an abundance of walking paths to take pleasure in the scenic routes through the garden.
The very first Navel Orange Trees within North America has its home in Riverside. In 1873, they were introduced into the area by the first settlers from Brazil. There are presently three surviving Parent Navel Orange Trees left. All oranges grown within the west coast came from these trees.
Initially, the economy consisted of primarily agriculture. Over the years, it has become increasingly more dependent on government, education, manufacture, and retail sectors. Luckily, the city has many reasonable land space existing, that makes it desirable for companies to build there. There is even several houses for a affordable price.
Riverside city ranks number one (out of 53 cities) in various rankings, making it one of the greatest cities to start up a company. They rank well in the total amount of jobs within the city as well as the biggest amount of companies.
The city is now focusing on developing high tech business parks and is expanding their technology sectors. The whole County resides within the 856 acre Riverside Regional Tech Park, that provides high speed fiber optic telecommunications systems. These systems rely data consistently and quickly through video, voice and data transmissions.
Numerous companies have opted to build their headquarters here, like Luminex Software Inc, Centrum Analytical labs, and Bourns Engineering and I/O Software.
The industrial and manufacturing sectors are rapidly growing and have attracted over 125 industrial businesses in the last ten years. DHL, a 18.6 billion dollar shipping corporation, chose to establish itself in Riverside. It is utilizing the March Air Reserve Case as its west coast hub. Some of the more successful companies in the light manufacturing sector are food processing, electrical instruments, fabrication, plastics, glass, metal, wood, recreational vehicles and imaging machinery. As the population expands, the retail trade expands as well.