Competitive Advantages

Legendary history meets unlimited opportunity in the city of Colton, California’s vibrant new center of commerce in San Bernardino County.

Colton was born a frontier rail town in the 1800s, nicknamed “Hub City” for its famed Colton Crossing, the nation’s busiest at-grade rail crossing. Today the city continues to serve as a vital node in the Inland Empire logistics network, a crossroads location where I-10 and I-215 converge and where BNSF and UP Class I rail lines intersect.

Where Wyatt Earp’s brother Virgil once walked the streets as the city’s first marshal, now palm trees meet pin oaks alongside smooth-flowing thoroughfares lined with retail and QSR opportunities.

Where the California frontier once made colorful history, today Colton’s leading medical centers are moving the frontiers of healthcare knowledge and medical training at the Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (ARMC), the first medical facility in the U.S. to employ digital radiology; and at the Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC), a pioneer in infant heart transplantation, home of California’s sole children’s hospital.

And now a dynamic new mixed-use vision has come to life with the Hub City Centre, anchored by ARMC and just minutes from LLUMC. Against this backdrop of exciting progress, Colton assets shine:

Colton offers housing costs lower than the California average, with lower transportation costs in a hub location offering multimodal speed and ease. Class I rail provides blanket coverage of western markets, while I-10 and I-215 provide north-south east-west reach, with California’s global ports just 1.5 hours away on I-10. The San Bernardino International Airport is just 10 minutes away, offering direct flights to Las Vegas.

The urban excitement of Los Angeles is nearby, and so are some of California’s most attractive recreational destinations including Reche Canyon just 11 miles away, Big Bear Lake and Resort just 48 miles away and Joshua Trees National Forest just 76 miles away.

Colton’s available acreage opens opportunities across the city, from prime retail and mixed-use parcels in Hub City Centre to high-performance industrial acreage on the city’s south side. At Hub City Centre alone, 250 acres of either I-10 frontage or frontage-adjacent parcels assure the high profile and visibility, plus high traffic counts, for steady sales and growth.

With a young population eager for more local retail and dining options and a government eager to provide pro-business collaboration and support, Colton is the hub that has more of what your enterprise needs to prosper.