Amazon HQ2 Proposal

Riverside, Calif. Proposed Sites

million lights along Mission Inn Avenue, horse-drawn carriage rides, and live entertainment. The Festival of Lights runs from late November through early January and draws an estimated 250,000 people to the downtown. Other popular downtown events include, but are not limited to, the Lunar Festival, Mission Inn Run, Black History Month Parade, Dickens Festival, and Show n’ Go. The Downtown area has, of recent, undergone amajor transformation with new projects and investment as part of the Riverside Renaissance initiative, a $1.57 billion program to improve infrastructure and quality of life in Riverside. The effort represented a significant investment in the quality and pride of the City and has ensured that Riverside is a city of choice for generations to come, as well as a catalyst for private investment. As a result of the initiative, Riverside has become amore attractive location for new job, retail, and entertainment opportunities, all of which enhance the wealth of the community and ensure Riverside’s position as the economic, governmental and cultural capital of the Inland Southern California region. Lastly, Site 2 is also located in close proximity to the Riverside Food Lab project, the newly developed Riverside Community College District Office and Culinary Arts Academy, the currently under construction Imperial Hardware Lofts, and established businesses. Furthermore, this location is located close to several upcoming development projects, including themixed use Stalder Plaza, the Hampton Inn Hotel, and themixed- use Culver Center Lofts.

The City of Riverside-owned and controlled Riverside Municipal Airport has become the leading destination for corporate and business aviation in the Inland Southern California region. With complete landing and navigation systems for all-weather con ditions, full conference and catering facilities as well as every level of pilot and aircraft services, this first-class destination is handling the rapidly growing business aviation demands of the region. Unlike the Los Angeles basin and coastal airports, Riverside has uncongested airspace, complete local political support, no noisemitigation problems and room for expansion. Easily han dling its 100,000 annual flight operations, this tower-controlled field provides immediate entry into the center of Southern Cal ifornia’s most exciting region, or a convenient departure point for the Pacific Rim, Mexico, or any other business destination in North America. Included in the Riverside Municipal Airport campus, which is comprised of 525 acres, is approximately 60 vacant develop able acres (Site Map – Attachment 1) that can be sold or leased to Amazon for a portion of its second headquarters. Moreover, the Riverside Municipal Airport also contains an existing rail spur that can be utilized by Amazon. Lastly, under the current zoning, Site 1 could provide for lower intensity, supplemental office, data infrastructure, and ware house uses. The historic former Chinatown site, which is approximately 4.2 acres and is designated as City Historic Landmark No. 19 by the City’s Cultural Heritage Board, County Landmark State Point of Historical Interest and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the immediately adjacent properties (as shown on Site Map – Attachment 2) encompass approximately 22.5 acres.

This proposed development site is comprised of 26 separate landowners and would need to be assembled and acquired by Amazon. Amazon could assemble and construct a project similar in size and scope to a previously submitted development proposal (also shown on Attachment 2), which was envisioned to include the following:

• Signature historic Chinatown park with a visitor center, demonstration gardens, and an events arena.

• Adaptive reuse of the historic Grant Elementary school and fountain as an 18,000 square foot conference center. • Several multi-story office buildings totaling approximately 1.2million square feet.

• Mediumdensity housing totaling approximately 300,000 square feet with 60,000 square feet of ground floor retail.

The current zoning of the collective Site 2 properties would allow for the construction of office, retail and limited residential. Moreover, Site 2 is located just outside of Downtown Riverside. Downtown Riverside is the location of multiple attractions, oriented toward arts and culture, including the Historic Mission Inn Hotel and Spa, Mission Inn Museum, the Riverside Metropolitan and Art Museum, the University of California – Riverside Arts Block, Culver Center for the Arts, the recently renovated Fox Performing Arts Center, Main Street Riverside, and the Riverside Municipal Auditorium. Special events in downtown include the annual Festival of Lights, which includes holiday decorations withmore than three

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