Today we will be exploring the town of bloomington CA where hundreds of homes have been snatched up by industrial developers join my urban exploring discord! / discord
It's not online shopping that destroyed an entire town. It's an economic philosophy of consumerism over production. A society that doesn't PRODUCE anything is destined to fail. Don't go through life being ignorant. Try to educate yourself or the oligarchy in this country will have you in virtual chains before you're fifty years old. Wake up.
Fontana Native born and raised here. Over the past 25 years I have watched the area become more and more consumed by warehouses. Unfortunately my family is becoming more and more priced out of the area so we will probably be forced to move. The increased pressure from developers to turn every street corner into shitty rentals and warehouses is making it impossible to own a home in the area. Our local governments are completely in the pocket of Amazon and other logistics giants. We really have no choice but to leave in the wake of rising cost of living. It is a shame, we are at the point where people like myself can’t afford to live in our own home due to corporate greed.
So were the houses sold or what? And if it is rented out, what about the renters!? If I was a renter and it was sold out from under me, I wouldn’t pay the rent, so I could save enough to move!
Think about getting your family to move out of southern California. Personally, I favor the areas of the country just east of I-35 near I-40. There is no way I would live in California if I had minor children. That state is out of control. Your family could do much better financially in a less expensive area. (I know Fontana used to be the less expensive area, as was Bloomington and Pedley back when I lived there.)
Not necessarily. Warehouses needs utilities; lights, water, etc. Also can't be too far away from the workers to travel to. Also if it's further away, it's more costly to ship from. To be honest, we the common folks can take some of the blame too. We support the online businesses, we find it's too inconvenient to head to the store. We also thought it was too inconvenient to support mom and pop stores, and they fell. It's the cycle of change I guess.
You should also do a report on how absolutely HORRENDOUS the truck traffic on the freeways has become as well. The 60fwy is consistently 3 and 4 lanes wide of tractor trailers leaving no room for cars and increasing my 13 mile commute from Chino to San Dimas into at least 45mins to 1hr 15mins every day. It needs to be addressed as it's now an absolute nightmare for everyone in the area.
Your clogging up the highway complaining about others being on the highway. The highway was a mess 20 years ago as well. I was probably delivering building materials, so your home could be built. I moved out of the state because I didn't like how expensive and crowded it was. You can move too.
@@melissasmess2773 my house is 50 yrs old. Leaving a problem (abandoning it) is not a solution and has never worked for any problem I've ever faced. I'm here to fight for what I love. Good luck with your "quitter" strategy, hope it serves you well. Also, my house is from 1975 and is closer to 50 years old so you did not deliver materials for it
Access to freeways and markets. They have to deliver the stuff to urban centers, so they need lots of land nearby. Capitalism is insane, and it will self-destruct.
@@willieverusethis It is the only sustainable type of economy. Socialism, Marxism, communism, or whatever name you wish to use, has failed everywhere in the world. The second amendment will guarantee it will never happen in the U.S..
Torrance, Inland Empire, Phoenix have been identified as the 3 most efficient areas for warehousing for the southwest market due to access to freeways and freight airport terminals. IE is heavily connected to SoCal freeways & freight rail and has the massive Ontario Freight Terminal nearby. Nearly perfect for warehousing.
It’s California. You should look at the tremendous amount of building going on in Texas. Multi-family units, apartment complexes, are going up EVERYWHERE in the greater metro areas, expanding the suburbs exponentially! Absolutely no shortage in states that have economic viability.
This is happening in a lot of states where they are buying up an tearing down homes to put up large wear houses in a lot of states the corporations will soon run everything no more mom an pop shops
@@jesseostone386texas will eventually be as expensive as california if more people move there but so far more people like california and i understand why. more stuff better weather and the state is mostly meant for young people though, while texas is for people 50+ years
That's been going on for over 120 years around Los Angeles. What do you think was there before the millions of homes, stores, shopping malls, warehouse, freeways and strip malls were built in Southern California?
Ohhh my goodness! I live in Rialto (the city next to Bloomington) and had no idea this was happening. Of course I’m aware of all the warehouses that have been going up in our area, but wasn’t aware of the demolished homes! Wow. I think I need to take a drive tonight and look around. Thanks for the video! Very eye opening
I worked in Redlands and one of my co workers told me she lived in Bloomington and there were warehouses all around her and they were getting offers for her house. They have lots of chickens and goats. My parents also owned horse property there many years ago.
You don’t understand younger folks want to work, shop, live and eat within walking distance. That means no driving but living piled up like rats. The New Urban Plan.
South Fontana born and raised here as well. My parents own their house and have lived there for over 40 years. It’s a beautiful sanctuary with established trees and gardens. They’re surrounded by warehouses on almost all sides. They were almost bought out last year but the deal fell through so it’s just them, and their few neighbors in one little culdesac. It breaks my heart.
OMG! I grew up in Bloomington from 1965 until I moved out in 1993. I attended Walter Zimmerman elementary school that was shown in this video, Bloomington junior high and graduated from Bloomington high school in 1983. I recognize a lot of the area that was being demolished and this is so upsetting Bloomington was such a wonderful place to grow up, I have so many fun memories of this area. When I drive by and see our old home still to this day it has changed so much. It makes me want to cry.😢
I believe because Bloomington never wanted to be incorporated or become an actual city they were doomed. Remember Fontana tried annex them. They didn't want to give up the ranch style community
I live in N San Diego; same house for 47 years. Or neighborhood stayed county because we wanted to stay rural. Our will was circumvented when the city was given jurisdiction over everything, including zoning. It doesn't matter what we want, they are gonna make their money.
They can and they do and they have been forever. We did enjoy a partial reprieve through dedicated democracy which made us all better and stronger. But the masses are far too self-centered, willfully ignorant, and therefore quite easily bought - and for mere chump-change or a little pat on the head.. er, ego.
grew up in fontana since 2005, I watched it turn from farm lands and fruit groves to full dystopian industrial style strong arming. The cost of living is rising significantly with nothing to show for it. Some of these warehouses that are built are still not even active, they are just sitting there without anyone even working in them. Its all part of the 3 step plan the mayor and higher ups have where they are turning the south into industrial, central into commercial, and north into residential. They dont care that they are scattering people who have nowhere else to go and creating ghettos. The high income people up north are all living comfortably while the average to low income people are all suffering!
Well there are lots of affordable states to live, people just need to lower their expectations like I did when I moved from California to a small farming town in SE Washington State in 2003. Not a lot of jobs, none pay great, but home prices are about average at $355,000 here.
@@melissasmess2773 well that's great and all. But not everyone has the means to leave the state because of how much it already takes. While leaving is a great idea for those who can, those who can't need to all group up and work together to find real solutions, not band-aid solutions like minimum wage
@@BusArch42yeap been saying it since it started I seen it as a truck driver and I didn't even hea about it on the news but I guess it was while he was getting knocked by Monica that's why Killery didn't care she's probably what was behind the idea 😊
@@brendarutherford8738 Not at all. Clearly the only one not paying any attention over that lurid distraction was you, and you fell for it hook, line, and sinker...
I saw California change its thinking as a populous in the 1980’s I was born and raised there, it’s far from what it once was after my cancer battle I packed up and my family and belongings and baled out, corruption runs deep in California. X native Californian WE ARE MANY
40 years ago Fontana was referred to as Fontuckey. I was stopped on Sierra avenue by the police because the KKK and Nazi skinheads were facing off. That was 40 years ago. It’s sad to see this happening but Fontana was never a nice place.
Those warehouse are big business. There’s Amazon, QVC, HSN. And people rent warehouse space to house recreational vehicles like RVs, Boats, Vintage Cars. If you have a house, hold on to it the big boys needing it for their spacious warehouse will offer a nice price for land if it’s in the right area and just off the freeway or nearest highway like Route 66, Foothills or Arrow. Those warehouse are very expensive to purchase and are selling like hotcakes. I know I own one.
I work in Bloomington and this town looks like it has lax zoning codes. There is an Amazon in a residential area. My co-worker’s home was bought out, like his neighbors. Not sure what is building to all the buyouts but it’s massive.
I also LOVE how they will build ALL this stuff in So Cal and do NOTHING to improve or expand the existing ROADS and FREEWAYS! Nothing. Nada. Zilch. The traffic will become unmanageable and eventually ...... we won't be "allowed" to have a car.
Not entirely true. CalTrans just finished adding FasTrak lanes on the 10 between the 15 and the LA/San Bernardino County Line. And the 15 has been under widening South of the 10 for quite a few years now. The area has always suffered from enormously heavy traffic, partly due to the comparatively lower housing costs, but also from being a geographical crossroads to/from LA, Las Vegas, San Diego and Phoenix.
Sorry to hear that. I'm Asian as well, first time I hear an Asian is close to being homeless. I've never seen us Asians homeless nor close to be one. You'll be alright hang in there and keep moving 😐
Shopping Malls have been going away for 30+ years now. Even in 1993 I lived in Phoenix, Arizona and there were several HUGE malls with no retail stores left. Just a movie theatre and ice rink for hockey in one, an arcade in another.😮 Covid put the final nails in the coffin. People figured out you could order stuff online for half the cost of buying off the shelf in a store. Our government banning public travel and shopping restrictions didnt help either. In my current small town of 50,000 there were seversl stores and 6 restsurants close permanently.
I’m from Phoenix. They did this to Metro Center, Fiesta Mall which were both closed and torn down as well as Paradise Valley Mall I remember when all of them were built. Tower Plaza has the ice skating rink still. Thomas Mall is an outlet Mall. That’s a few ❤
I still remember when Maryvale Mall was where all the protestors started to riot after the Rodney King riots in LA were going off and the rioters went into the mall to cause havoc. The security and the cops locked the entire place down and trapped everyone inside with no power until they settled down and were willing to head home.
Yep, at least 3 major Malls were closed two already torn down and the most Famous one Metro Center is supposed to be starting any day with Demolition! That’s the Saddest one as it was are first Mall in Phoenix and at the Time one of the largest
@@dangarcia6760 Absolutely NOT an accident. Proven to have been impossible to be created in nature, proven not to have been released by "bats" or any other animal besides man. P
@@haze1123 i mean california has alot of stuff and the weather is nice, this town became industrialized and we already know bloomington was kinda a crappy town
@@kingkobrazxeveryone is moving to smaller cities in the pretty mountain areas- it’s ruining Montana right now . Rude people and they are not healthy looking . Legal pot seemed to coincide with the new influx
In California, developers can get away with anything. It’s crazy that if I want to start a business at my home, they immediately say I’m not zoned for it. Developers come in and can destroy entire communities
It would not surprise me as the economy continues to collapse, and we enter into depression 2.0, the newly built warehouses will also be closed / sold / or abandoned in the near future.
OMG. It’s no wonder people have gotten dumber. They rely on the false stories on YT. Get real news, or better yet pick up a book, go to the library 🤦♀️
Actually, consumers are the problem. Too many are addicted to online shopping. If the change never occurred, these warehouses wouldn't be needed. Blaming capitalism is fun UNTIL you acknowledge YOU'RE the problem.
METAL LEO did a walk through of some of the main centers in San Francisco like the Civic Center. One of these centers is San Francisco, which had over 150 small retail stores, and all of them were closed. All of them had a for lease sign, but there was one business open.The one business open was One Medical, which is owned by Amazon. It would seem like a good idea for Americans to boycott Amazon if that's possible
100%. Amazon has way too much power. Whole Foods, One Medical, Amazon Business too, in a sense its possible for Amazon to control almost all a person's disposable income.
It would be if the majority of shoppers would join in..I've never used Amazon, I don't online shopping. I prefer actually shopping in a store. As you can tell I'm an older woman who is not 100% into that way of life. My greats can have it when I'm gone.😊
@@matthewmalpass9999 I feel sorry for you. Bloomington was a friendly, rural area where neighbors knew and helped each other. I guess you'll never know what that is like.
@@echoparklady3170 that's not correct. He was following her and her family and harassing her. Because he wasn't happy that she stopped the road side vendors (which he felt was attack on Mexicans). I personally am glad they are gone. That was a freaking mess and not fair for the businesses they would sit in front of. Not to mention all the sidewalks getting taken up and making traffic dangerous by blocking the view that the sidewalks give us while entering and exiting parking lots. I am no fan of hers, she says she's a republican, but does nothing but act as a democrat. The only reason she stays in office is because there isn't another republican running to take her out. Just more democrat nonsense.
@@Runner8617 no it was unincorporated. Bloomington does not have its own body of government. They could of, but the people were quite lazy and didn't get it done. Well, many of the people that live there are not legal citizens, so they really don't care anyhow. They just moved on to another city.
@@mikemiller9119 The residents of Bloomington have been fighting for decades to become recognized as their own city, but it was always denied. The only choice that was ever given was to be absorbed by Fontana and Rialto and the residents didn't want that.
I went to Bloomington HS in the 80's I built Moreno valley when it was sunnymead I left to northern California in 1987 visited in 2014 it's terrible inland city mall central city all shot out I grew up here
I used to live in Rialto in the mid ‘90s. Bloomington was a good area, better than Rialto. This is a mad max movie scenario by the way it looks. This is not only bad, it’s heartbreaking with a feeling is desolation. Just sad man!
Look at the so called dairy preserve in Chino and the previous now Ontario zoned California area. The holdouts are being pushed out using eminent domain tactics. It is so sad. Here too, amazon warehouses and empty tiltups.
We don't have a housing shortage. We have a population problem. Look at the total amount living in the US. There was NEVER any proper planning behind encouraging these unhealthy population booms.
All part of the democratic cess pool party's. " New World🌎 Disorder " ideology syndrome conspiracy theories-!!!😈. Destroy the (U.S.) economy & societal customs-!!!😳
I have lived in the Inland Empire (San Bernardino County) all my life. I have seen warehouse after warehouse be built, and some never fully rented out. My mom tells me warehouses are good for jobs, but I keep telling her that it is so depressing seeing so many concrete buildings in the area. Cities like Upland and Rancho Cucamonga hardly have warehouses and really pushed for diverse businesses. It really shows, and it's one of many reasons why so many people drive to those cities for entertainment. Capitalism is a cancer for sure.
Never a nice area. Bloomington, Norco, Jurupa…those areas were always considered low class and extremely rural even back in the 1970s and 80s. It was the equivalent of where hillbillies lived. Now it will be an Amazon slum.
Norco was a really nice horse community. Bloomington was rural. Rural does not equal "low class". Some of us prefer country living to being crammed into a city overflowing with houses, people, crime, and traffic.
Those who have money can easily get zoning laws changed. It is always been like that. When I owned a house in Riverside, all the neighbors objected but the City Council rezoned the land right across from us to commercial.
@@Growmap I remember where the Home Depot is on Madison. Those homes were rezoned. One lone house remained for years. It is finally gone. It wasn’t feasible to live between parking lots.
Give a special thanks to your town, planning commission. They allowed all this by changing the zoning from residential to commercial. There's lots of money 💰, involved. 😂😂😂😂😂
Wow. When you really started exploring, I realized just how VAST this plot of land really is. Whatever the reasons for things like this, it certainly isn't community building. 😢
Would be cool to see the footage of this town when it was thriving and full of life.. some of these homes are nice spreads! A shame its all a wasteland now...
People need to stop being lazy and start going back to physical stores. Ridiculous. We are nothing more than consumers to these online shopping apps. Go to the local store and greet your neighbours. Meet the people in your communities. Support physical stores in your local areas. I don’t want to lose our communities and stores!!
If so many warehouses are empty, it's obviously a bubble. The demand is false and is only designed to float the market. Whereas real demand for single family detached homes is what people really want. Just like that section of Young homes near the freeway. The NWO penetrative public office can't stand rural semi independent communities connected to the earth.
If you're moving and your couch is old and worn out your furniture is old and mortal. Your mattress is already old. You know, I would take some sentimental. Well, made furniture. That's been passed down some tools. Some stuff, but. Id probably Leave a lot of it.
Years ago they built warehouses all along the 2 main intersecting streets that Bloomington High School is on. You may or may not have driven past the high school during your documentation or while looking for shots for the video. But I attended that high school during the early stages of the warehouse developments going up. Years later the warehouse number there probably doubled or tripled since. All that semi truck traffic goes directly up and down the main road you'd have to drive in order to drop off/pick up your kid at school/or you driving yourself to school. Time consuming and could really make you late for school if you were unlucky that day. Also more unsafe if you commute to and from school on bike. Just imagine school pickup/drop off traffic and now added even more commercial shipping traffic.
Do you carry? Or at least have a decent knife on you? Wouldnt want to encounter that dude or similar inside one of those homes. Where they have nothing to lose and just attack.
Thank you for the excellent video. Your first hand look at the ridiculous situation on the streets of Bloomington, Ca broke my heart & made me mad. It also made me re-evaluate how I will shop from now on because sadly, that’s all I can do aside from voting & leaving Cal.
I use to live in Bloomington near Bloomington high school on locust. Haven't been there in years but yeah these developers bought out all those homes and gave those home owners a large sum. It's sad that we as people build either a home,building, warehouse or any other structure on land that we see.. eliminating wildlife in certain places. We consume every resource like a virus or parasite. I'm glad I'll be dead by the time there will be no place to build and every natural resource is consumed.
It’s also why fed ex freight merging with fed ex ground as well , freight loss a lot of their freight volume coming in so they are merging with fed ex ground , many ground drivers were forced to find other contractors due to this and many u can say “lost their jobs “ because of this , no one talks about it but it’s true , this is for commercial class A drivers not class B , so the ground drivers just about 20% were forced to go look for another contractor and hope they had any available positions within fed ex ground . Freight now took over rail yard work (any trailers that come through port /trains basically
they are doing this to vegas now! not just with corporations buying land to build warehouses which they casted out the homeless population from building one of them near the soup kitchen but its mostly with investors buying plots of land to create homes to rent out, they also buy shabby foreclosures and fix them and put them out for rent. unfortunately the cost of living is getting so high people i know are moving out. Vegas is basically California Jr now.
I live in Rancho Cucamonga and its basically the same thing going on here. Companies are quickly building warehouses with no business filling them. Most of them have been built for a long time. I heard that Los Angeles will only allow EV semis to deliver trailers within the county limits and Fontana/Rancho Cucamonga will be the line where diesel Semis will still be allowed. This will only create more traffic and congestion within city streets which is pretty bad in those areas as it is.
Yup, I saw it happen right before my eyes, I work at a trucking company in Bloomington, the street I make a turn on right before I get to my workplace had 1 house left on the whole block, they demolished it and guess what? There was a warehouse built in its place, another warehouse was built right across the street also.
@glow1815 Are you missing the point, and reference to what the OP posted? Just in case that is so, I'll attempt to explain it. The World Economic Forum (WEF), put out a propaganda video a few years ago touting the virtues of their idea of the New World Order, which is actually the enslavement of the average Joe's to serve the rich elites. Part of their plan is to prevent average people from owning property. So, in the film it shows this young guy looking at the camera and slowly changing his facial expression to a big smile, while the narrator says, "You will own nothing and be happy." They want the government or ruling class to own everything, and the rest of us to live with just the basics of life, and have no way to improve your standing in the world.
The US is complete degradation. It's very sad. It seems like the only places that are thriving are the planned communities. In my area of NE FL, it's very nice. Most stores are open, but on certain sides of town, it's bad. 😢
I drive through there often. The amount of truck traffic is insane. Blame the crooked politicians who aprove all these mega warehouses. They will sell themselves to the highest.bidders, including foreign investors. None of those projects or the teardown of homes happened without political involvement.
This happened in South Fontana some years back as well. I no longer live in Fontana but my parents do right next to these neighborhoods. I had no idea it was happening until one day I was driving home from my parents on the streets and suddenly homes were gone or being demolished. It was crazy how fast it happened.
There are federal and state laws protecting environment in a low income areas. I hope the Board and the developers will be sued and the warehouse will be dismantled. And I hope there will be laws will be put in place to prevent apartments replacing rural residential homes. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Isaiah 9:6 ❤️✝️❤️
A few months ago they were planing make to a small warehouse for refrigerators in front of my house in the Bloomington oak street area, that property is a small crop field but thank god they canceled that idea I think bc it’s unsafe for the houses around that property.It was going to make the area hotter, loud noise, and traffic accordingly to the paper they handed out on people doors
That is just part of economic evolution, has occurred many times throughout the history. Each ghost town has its own story. Mostly are economically driven.
Here in Fontana all the homes with Goats, Pigs, Horses, Chickens, etc which I loved passing by just to look at them have been demolished and we are bombarded by all these gigantic warehouses. We used to be able to see the mountains North of us especially when they had snow and now with the tall buildings, you can't see them. So sad about Bloomington, I too had no idea. Thanks for letting me vent ✌
They promise the community great 😊things but in the end nothing no jobs ,then the cities put up no truck routes and get the money from trucks being forced to drive on roads that say no trucks it’s all about money
Bth, Bloomington is a dump. That’s why Walmart, Amazon, FedEx, UPS put up warehouses there. The properties there were cheap. The home owners got offered that they could never have gotten if it weren’t for the warehouse developers buying their cheap properties
@@willieverusethis but, at least, now those warehouses will bring in jobs, tax revenue for the city, infrastructures to replace the run down drug houses, unrepaired roads, despair, zero future With the new revenues, Bloomington can now reinvest , gentrify, and bring in new house developments, and a new future and hopes for that dead end city
@@SoCal760 God is removing his people because very soon America will be in carters and debris... California is about to slide into the ocean and will be at the bottom of the sea
Blame the councilmen and women and politicians. That land is obviously deemed residential. But how does big investors get to show up and buy the land then all a sudden it’s commercial land? Commercial land is worth 5x more then residential so ppl selling their homes for double think they got a deal but the buyers literally tripled their money once the land went from residential to commercial. SMH. The only way the land can switch from residential to commercial is if the city council allows it. They’re getting paid or they even might be the ones buying the land. The reason the warehouses sit empty is because the property goes up in value once the warehouse is built and it’s now commercial property. The developers probably put up like 15 or 20 million dollars and once the building is finished, it’s probably worth double immediately. And the city council is behind all of this. These developers shouldn’t be able to buy homes then tear them all down and build commercial buildings. The city council is getting paid by these investors and developers to turn the land from residential to commercial
Imagine they build warehouses to not be opened on purpose , and after just knocking them down again to build massive apartments . And investors make their money right back along profit.
Homeowners close to those warehouses eventually leave because there’s no peace. Throughout the evenings until morning, the noise from those 18-wheelers are continuous coming in and out of those warehouses. Horrible specially when drivers honk. It’s like an alarm.
I started working around bloomington around 2020....i was hoping to buy one of these nice big lots to work on my cars in peace, but alas, it was ot to be
