Inland cities including Bakersfield, Fresno, Visalia and Riverside — once cheaper rent options than pricey places such as the Bay Area — are no longer refuges from California’s housing affordability crisis.
You’d be forgiven for thinking that this much movement has something to do with seismic activity, in fact it’s all to do with an influx of new stores, shops, outlets and industry
The return of Barnes & Noble to the Promenade opened a new chapter in Santa Monica’s economic story but the post-Covid narrative of the city’s business community has been hard to write
