Amazon HQ2 Proposal

Local Community Menifee, Calif.

The City of Menifee is located along Interstate 215 between the cities of Perris and Murrieta. Incorporated in 2008, Menifee has grown to a current population of 90,960. Over the 1980s and 1990s, Menifee became a region covered with quality master planned communities and residential tentative tract maps. Today, the city has almost 19,000 units in some phase of development within 9 approved specific plans and 63 tract maps. Menifee’s area affordability and its proximity to employment centers in Orange, Riverside, San Diego and Los Angeles counties make it an attractive location for families looking for a high quality of life region in Southern California.

Primary routes in Menifee are Interstate 215 and Newport Road. Scott Road and McCall Boulevard are alsomain east/west thoroughfares. Newport Road is a highly traveled arterial with a traffic count of 48,500 on a daily basis (2012 City of Menifee PublicWorks Dept.). Several key factors contribute to this high traffic volume including Newport Road’s central location within Menifee, its major retail centers currently in operation and its ability to connect travelers to Interstate 15 / Lake Elsinore via Railroad Canyon Road on the west and the Hemet / San Jacinto Valley via Domenigoni Parkway on the east.

Menifee is prime for high-quality development as valuable freeway frontage land has been designated as the Economic Development Corridor. Economic Development Corridors (EDCs) are land areas that, because of their location, current evolution of land uses, and ease of access, provide themost favorable environment for the aggregation of similar economic drivers (i.e., commercial, general business, industrial, and retail venues). The EDC designation gives the area special emphasis, while serving to optimize the services these venues provide to the general public.

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