Ontario could soon be identified by skyline

The city has been called "the next urban center of Southern California." But what exactly does that entail? And what would such an Ontario be like? One image that could identify the city of the future is the ...

[Yeah baby more growth]

Make the place just like Orange County. It's so cool there, you can't even find a parking place at the grocery store in the middle of the day. Bring 'em in, more people, more people, lets stuff this place. I like the vision of higher population density than Hong Kong.

[ihopethishappens]

I hope this happens, Ontario really is a cool place, and if this does happen I hope they have lofts, I'd get one!

[David]

I think Ontario is defined by crime and illegal aliens

[bob]

ontario is piece of c ra p city thinks more people and more people.

[Upland girl]

Yeah baby more growth wrote:

Make the place just like Orange County. It's so cool there, you can't even find a parking place at the grocery store in the middle of the day. Bring 'em in, more people, more people, lets stuff this place. I like the vision of higher population density than Hong Kong.

Another over-developed soon to be metropolitan mess - mu ch like most of southern california.

[Ont Riv guy]

The city of Ontario is long overdue for this kind of transition into a major city/hub of the I.E. It has so much potential and many attractions. The land where they are planning to put all these skyscrapers is long overdue for something. its a HUGE area clearly seen from the 10 freeway. Vineyard ave, 4th St., and Archibald Ave. bound this area, and it's prime location. VERY near the LA/ONT airport, convention center, Ont. Mills, CBBank Arena, and Piemonte and Guasti.
I cannot wait.:)

[DSJ]

More "Pie in the sky" dreams, more traffic in an already congested area. Why don't they look at cleaning up the blight that is most of Ontario.

[David]

If they would deport half of the town it would be great.

[Damon]

Jamboree "Boulevard" (it's Road, by the way), is not 12 lanes, it's 4 in each direction at the widest point. 3 lanes elsewhere. If Ontario wants to catch up to Irvine they better start building. You can't drive within 2 miles of John Wayne Airport without seeing an apartment complex or office tower under construction.

[faithers]

I live in ontario and im disgusted how the city looks the other way with all these illegal people pushing their carts up and down my street selling their food from home in carts from walmart and target nothing is being done and they continue. would love to sell my home but i know its a very bad time so i sit and watch these people take over the city im ashamed to tell people where i live. the city is so dirty and illegals standing on corners begging.

[Dont worry about it]

faithers wrote:

I live in ontario and im disgusted how the city looks the other way with all these illegal people pushing their carts up and down my street selling their food from home in carts from walmart and target nothing is being done and they continue. would love to sell my home but i know its a very bad time so i sit and watch these people take over the city im ashamed to tell people where i live. the city is so dirty and illegals standing on corners begging.

Shut the hell up the only people I see begging for money are white trash bums and black bums on crack at least the mexicans are working and not begging in the street if you don't like living around Mexicans than move to another state like Alaska or any of the Dakota's where theres hardly any it's true that some of us are criminals but what race doesn't have criminals the majority of mexicans are hard working people who are not criminals being illegal is not a crime so move away if you don't like us you ignorant turd because we are not going anywhere

[Little Stevie Wonder]

Blum/ Kroutil, what about the historic Guasti Village structures that were bulldozed so you can put up those "40-50 story high-rises"? Some things never change for "the better", unless you BREAK THE LAW.

[Ontario Resident]

Hey, I like my low-traffic commutes around town! and it's my area they want to convert! The airport area. They'd better leave the field between Vineyard, 4th, archibald, and IE blvd alone. I like the view from IE blvd on a clear day! If they must build there in the future, make sure to widen the streets beforehand.

Also what they did to Guasti pisses me off.

I enjoyed driving through there. I stumbled across a site a while back of the developer that is working on it. Apparently they are going to preserve the original buildings and restore them to how they used to be, and everything else will be bulldozed and made into an upscale shopping center/tourist trap for people visiting from the airport. gee, what we really need more of, over glorified stripmalls.

[Backroomdeal]

Ontario Resident wrote:

Hey, I like my low-traffic commutes around town! and it's my area they want to convert! The airport area. They'd better leave the field between Vineyard, 4th, archibald, and IE blvd alone. I like the view from IE blvd on a clear day! If they must build there in the future, make sure to widen the streets beforehand.
Also what they did to Guasti pisses me off.
I enjoyed driving through there. I stumbled across a site a while back of the developer that is working on it. Apparently they are going to preserve the original buildings and restore them to how they used to be, and everything else will be bulldozed and made into an upscale shopping center/tourist trap for people visiting from the airport. gee, what we really need more of, over glorified stripmalls.

What has taken place in Guasti (or lackthereof) is a disgrace. Ooops... did we demolish more of the historic structures that were allowed???
From the former owner Clarke Pauley, to the new owner/developer, to the Ontario Planning Commission and City Council... FAILED.

[Ontario Resident]

it is, but at this point it doesn't shock me, Californians simply *DO NOT CARE* about history, developers here have bigger voices than the people, and the state is slow on preserving places because they like seeing the tax money coming from these developed places. Very few of us do care, the rest just want another place to get expensive trinkets and overpriced crap. There was this restaurant in Downey which was a historical landmark, it served as a car dealership for a while, new owners got it, knowing what it was, waited until the night to bring in bulldozers and demolish it just beyond the point of being able to restore it, they got slapped with a petty fine but the damage was done, and they ended up doing what they wanted to the place.
When I lived out east, they try to preserve as much of their history as possible. The only bits of history you can find here are in decaying photographs. Hollywood used to have some really awesome landmarks, which they bulldozed to make way for newer development which is all now essentially slums.

[robby]

i really dont undrstand this "skylane thing"

[Little Stevie Wonder]

Failed public trust is reason enough to expect corruption within the organization, similar to the goings-on with the County government. Are they connected, you bet! Will the real Greg Devilreaux please stand-up, please stand-up, please stand-up?

[Johnny]

David wrote:

If they would deport half of the town it would be great.

What an ass. Ontario was Mexican well befor "whites" came along, it's not our fault whites got up and ran to the desert now is it?

[Ontario death]

Backroomdeal wrote:

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What has taken place in Guasti (or lackthereof) is a disgrace. Ooops... did we demolish more of the historic structures that were allowed???
From the former owner Clarke Pauley, to the new owner/developer, to the Ontario Planning Commission and City Council... FAILED.

Guasti resembles a bombed-out European village. What a shame.

[D avid]

Will the graffiti go all the way up to the top of the bldgs? That would be cool. Then it won't look like O.C.