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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23053387\/billion-square-feet-warehouses-california-inland-empire-online-shopping<\/a>
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California\u2019s Inland Empire, a sprawling region just east of Los Angeles that was once known for orange groves and grape vineyards, is now ground zero of America\u2019s warehouse boom. The rise of online shopping has triggered a dramatic change in the landscape here and across the country \u2014 every $1 billion in online sales drums up demand for 1.25 million square feet<\/a> of warehouse space. <\/p>\n

Now, there\u2019s an estimated 1 billion square feet of warehouses in the Inland Empire alone, according to a new analysis by the Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability at Pitzer College. That\u2019s nearly 37 square miles of warehouses. <\/p>\n

The austere concrete boxes are relatively new transplants to the region, as an animated map released by Pitzer shows. As you watch the map, created using county-level data, you\u2019ll see the warehouses crop up between 1975 and 2021, although development really started to take off in the 1990s with the onset of e-commerce. <\/p>\n

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A map of warehouse growth in San Bernardino and Riverside counties from 1975\u20132021 based on county data. All numbers should be considered an estimate.<\/em><\/figcaption>GIF<\/a>: Graham Brady\/Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability at Pitzer College (with thanks to Lani Fox)<\/cite><\/p>\n

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E-commerce giants including Amazon continue to gobble up space in the area. \u201cOver the last 20 years, I\u2019ve watched open land and farmland in the Inland Empire become a gridlocked sea of warehouses,\u201d Susan Phillips, director of the Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability at Pitzer, writes in a May 1st op-ed<\/a> in the Los Angeles Times.<\/em> <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Inland Empire is at a breaking point,\u201d she writes. <\/p>\n

The region is a canary in the coal mine of sorts for the rise of warehouses in America. It\u2019s become one of the biggest warehouse hubs in the country thanks largely to cheap land near freeways, railyards, and <\/strong>the busiest port in the Western hemisphere (the Port of Los Angeles). <\/p>\n

What you can\u2019t tell from the map is what life looks like when your next-door neighbor is a warehouse sending and receiving truckloads of gadgets and other goods each day. For that, check out The Verge<\/em>\u2019s photo essay on life in Bloomington<\/a>, California. In Bloomington, some residents are fighting to stop warehouse developers from bulldozing over ranches, gardens, and a unique rural culture shaped by immigrant families who moved to the area for its open space. <\/p>\n

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