Former California State Route 31, Part Two
Through Eastvale as Hamner and into Ontario as Milliken Ave.
In this second part, we traverse Hamner Ave through Eastvale and cross the San Bernardino County Line into the city of Ontario. We run into construction just north of SR 60, and we end there for now. More will be coming soon!
Junction: Limonite Ave. Eastvale's main north/south corridor meets it main east/west corridor. This is the city's lone interchange with I-15, soon to change I'm sure. Instead of the shopping center being named after the city, the city was named after the shopping center on the northeast corner here. This center spearheaded the community's interest to incorporate. It provided the city with all the essential shopping: a grocery store (Vons), big box retailer (Target), clothing (Kohls), hardware (Home Depot) and a movie theater. What was just 10-15 years ago, a lone shopping center and two mobile home parks in the middle of nowhere off the freeway, became a town of over 50,000 residents and still growing. Pretty impressive!
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Junction: Bellgrave Ave. We quietly enter San Bernardino County and the city of Ontario. That quiet part is about to change: we are sitting at the southeast corner of the new 'Ontario Ranch' planned community. Set to incorporate it's own shopping, schools, and parks as well as over 150,000 residents, this 13 square mile community will probably secede from Ontario itself as its' own community. Hamner makes up it's eastern-most boundary. The construction to our east is not currently part of it. To my fellow tech nerds: Ontario Ranch is set to be the first fully fiber optic community in Southern California.
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Junction: Ontario Ranch Rd (west)/Cantu-Galleano Ranch Rd (east). The heavy construction is prevalent, as well as traffic and the homes aren't even completed yet. I expect Cantu-Galleano Ranch Rd to be renamed Ontario Ranch Rd soon enough. It's original purpose was to give all the recently built (as of 1980's/1990's) industrial east of the freeway a direct connection so they could bypass the 60.
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