Chanel recently opened a fragrance and beauty boutique at Victoria Gardens in Rancho Cucamonga.
The 1,213-square-foot boutique includes the fashion house’s fragrance, makeup and skincare products and Chanel eyewear.
The store features a “discovery table” for its makeup where guests can get a look and feel for latest products and classic and iconic makeup.
Address: 12453 South Mainstreet, Suite 1260
Hours: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday; 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday.
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Grant helping UCR digitize photo slides
Work by UC Riverside’s Department of the History of Art and the Society of Architectural Historians to preserve architectural images from around the world will soon be available in a digital archive.
The UCR team, led by Sonja Sekely-Rowland, is using part of an ongoing $340,000 grant to digitize photo slides of buildings considered threatened by loss, destruction or environmental damage. The slides date to the 1980s Middle East, Mongolia and China.
The grant — provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities Collections and Reference Resources — will provide money through 2027, expanding the ongoing Color Film Emergency Project, or CFEP.
The effort at UC Riverside is being led by Sonja Sekely-Rowland, a curator at UCR’s Department of the History of Art. She’s working with former curators from UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine and eight other universities in the U.S.
“Our work on the CFEP began in 2016 in response to earlier research indicating SAH member collections totaling more than 1.2 million slides in need of care,” Sekely-Rowland said.
The photo slides were captured by 20th-century scholars, preservationists design practitioners, and photographers, according to UC Riverside.
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Otto signs 13-year lease at The Hub
Otto International Inc. is the first tenant to sign up at The HUB @ Ontario International Airport.
The company is leasing a 254,677-square-foot building at 3551 East Jurupa St. Financial terms of the nearly 13-year lease were not disclosed.
Phase 1 at The Hub features four buildings spanning a combined 2 million square feet. It’s expected to be completed in xxxx.
The property is owned by the partnership CanAm Ontario LLC, which includes a Canadian pension fund, an investment affiliate of Affinius Capital, and McDonald Property Group.
CanAm Ontario signed a 55-year ground lease with Ontario International Airport Authority to develop the 200-acre Hub.
CBRE, which represented the owners, said Otto International’s building will help the company scale up its next-day shipping promise by reducing costs through fulfillment automation at the facility.
The company is a global manufacturer of headwear under the brand Otto Cap and has 20,000 wholesale partners.
HR conference is Tuesday in Ontario
The third annual Inland Empire Human Resource-BIZ Conference takes place Tuesday, Feb. 4 at the Ontario Airport Hotel & Conference Center.
Hosted by the Inland Empire Regional Chamber of Commerce in partnership with Insight HR Consulting, the event from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. will include HR professionals, local business leaders and industry experts who will share insight on emerging trends and workforce challenges ahead.
Topics include labor laws, workplace culture, and talent retention challenges.
This year’s conference will feature speakers Vilma Brager, COO at Insight HR Consulting, Anne K. Smith, attorney and partner at AALRR law firm, and Angel Guerra-Chagolla, managing partner at 3B National Consulting Group, and Stephen Stewart, owner/operator at United Agencies Inc. Insurance.
Registration is open and tickets can be bought online at chamber’s website at iechamber.org/events. Chamber members are free while the general public will pay $75 per person for tickets.
On board
Liz Jones recently was appointed to the board of directors at Voices for Children in Riverside. The organization provides youth in foster care with volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocates (commonly called CASAs). Jones, who leads Jones Realty Group at Keller Williams in Riverside County, has been volunteering with Voices for Children since 2019.
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Layoffs hit theme park: Legoland is laying off nearly 100 employees at the Carlsbad park, according to a filing with the California Employment Development Department. Most are performers — 87 out of a total 97 job cuts, our peers at the San Diego Union Tribune reported on Friday. Others jobs being cut included stage managers, events assistant manager and production specialist. “The decision to reduce the size of our entertainment team was undoubtedly difficult, but these changes will allow the Resort to operate more flexibly and responsively in a competitive market,” the park told the Union-Tribune.
FAIR Plan wildfire claims tip balance: Claims from Los Angeles County wildfire victims have apparently exceeded $900 million for the state’s insurer of the last resort. This means the state plan can now tap “reinsurance” payments from backup providers, according to a story penned by real estate reporter Jeff Collins. The FAIR Plan earlier said it can only tap into reinsurance — essentially insurance for insurance companies — once it pays its first $900 million in claims.
Movement on Starbucks contract: The coffee chain and its union will bring in an outside mediator for contract negotiations, as both sides try to revive stalled talks and reach a landmark deal. The company and Workers United, which has a number of stores trying to unionize in Southern California, “have made progress over the last nine months of bargaining, and we are committed to continuing to work together,” Bloomberg News reported. The union is “optimistic that Starbucks will move off of their fixed position on wage and benefits improvements in this next phase of negotiations,” barista and bargaining delegate Michelle Eisen said in a separate statement from Workers United.
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