downtown San Bernardino

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| subdivision_name1 = California

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| subdivision_name2 = San Bernardino

| population_as_of = 2000

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Downtown San Bernardino is a district in the city of San Bernardino, California, in San Bernardino County, United States. It is home to city and county government buildings, and to the city's central business district. The downtown area of San Bernardino is home to multiple (and the only) diplomatic missions for the Inland Empire, being one of only four California cities with multiple consulates (the other cities being Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco). The governments of Guatemala (opened July 2014) and Mexico have established their consulates in the civic center.{{cite web |url=http://www.pe.com/local-news/local-news-headlines/20140307-immigration-guatemala-to-open-san-bernardino-consulate.ece |title=IMMIGRATION: Guatemala to open San Bernardino consulate | Local News | PE.com |access-date=2014-03-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140317020932/http://www.pe.com/local-news/local-news-headlines/20140307-immigration-guatemala-to-open-san-bernardino-consulate.ece |archive-date=2014-03-17 }} Downtown San Bernardino is bounded by I-215 to the west, Waterman Avenue to the east, Baseline Street to the north, and Mill Street to the south.{{Cite journal | last=Advisory Services Panel | title=San Bernardino, California: Crossroads of the Southwest | url=http://www.ci.san-bernardino.ca.us/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=4907 | publisher=Urban Land Institute | location=Washington, D.C. | date=June 24–29, 2007 | access-date=2007-12-26 | archive-date=April 22, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080422101408/http://www.ci.san-bernardino.ca.us/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=4907 | url-status=dead }}

The San Bernardino City Council has initiated several redevelopment efforts. The city's Economic Development Agency presented the council with a draft of the Downtown Core Vision / Action Plan in 2009,{{cite web |author=City of San Bernardino EDA, Pirih Productions, and Brostrom Software Solutions |url=http://www.sbrda.org/corevision.htm |title=Downtown Core Vision |publisher=Sbrda.org |access-date=2011-12-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009125146/http://www.sbrda.org/corevision.htm |archive-date=2011-10-09 |url-status=dead }} created in partnership with the urban planning firm EDAW, as a guide for revitalizing downtown San Bernardino over the next 10 years. The city has also discussed the construction of a new government center/civic plaza that will contain an iconic 24-story tower.[http://www.insidesocal.com/sb/sbnow/2009/11/webhedsan-bernardino-business.html ]{{dead link|date=December 2011}} On May 11, 2014 the county of San Bernardino opened a 12-story, 200-foot-tall courthouse known as the San Bernardino Justice Center. The county is consolidating many county-wide court functions into the new structure, which is the tallest building in San Bernardino.{{cite web |url=http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_19441260 |title=Courthouse construction begins - San Bernardino County Sun |publisher=Sbsun.com |access-date=2011-12-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111204034812/http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_19441260 |archive-date=2011-12-04 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.sbsun.com/government-and-politics/20140511/san-bernardino-justice-center-opens-for-business |title=San Bernardino Justice Center opens for business - |publisher=Sbsun.com |access-date=2014-06-02}}{{cite web|url=http://www.sbsun.com/government-and-politics/20140517/san-bernardino-county-courts-reorganization-draws-criticism |title=San Bernardino County courts reorganization draws criticism |publisher=Sbsun.com |access-date=2014-06-02}}

Parks

=Seccombe Lake=

Seccombe Lake Park includes a lake named after a former Mayor of San Bernardino. It is located at the corner of 5th Street and Sierra Way.{{cite news|title=Restoring Seccombe Lake Park is key for city |first=Alejandra |last=Molina |date=March 14, 2016 |newspaper=The Press-Enterprise|access-date=2016-03-16|url=http://www.pe.com/articles/park-796984-city-san.html}} On December 10, 2015, federal authorities searched the lake after receiving a tip that the shooters in the San Bernardino terrorist attack visited on the day of the attack. A dive team searched for evidence,{{cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/crime/la-me-sb-shooting-20151211-story.html |title=San Bernardino shooters planned bigger attack, investigators believe|work=Los Angeles Times|date=December 10, 2015|access-date=December 11, 2015|first1=Richard A.|last1=Serrano|first2=Richard|last2=Winton|first3=Sarah|last3=Parvini|first4=James|last4=Queally}}{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-searching-california-lake-connection-san-bernardino-shooting/story?id=35700346|title=FBI Searching California Lake in Connection to San Bernardino Shooting|work=ABC News|date=December 10, 2015|access-date=December 11, 2015}} but nothing relevant was found.{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/13/us/san-bernardino-shooting/index.html|title=Items found in San Bernardino lake not related to attack, source says|publisher=CNN|date=December 13, 2015|access-date=December 13, 2015|first1=Faith|last1=Karimi|first2=Ana|last2=Cabrera}}

Entertainment district

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Downtown is home to three performing arts venues and a movie theater, the most for any central business district in the Inland Empire. The city is planning a new district along Fourth Street. The key aspect of the plan is to make the area around the California Theater and future Regal San Bernardino Theater Square Stadium 14 site on Fourth Street as an area for entertainment and dining. The Regal Stadium 14 opened in the spring of 2012, but the need for new dining opportunities remains.{{cite news |url=http://www.sbsun.com/ci_19436441?source=most_viewed |date=2011-11-29 |newspaper=San Bernardino Sun |access-date=2011-11-29 |title=EDC gives approval for lease to return movie theater to San Bernardino's downtown |author=Josh Dulaney |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111201193730/http://www.sbsun.com/ci_19436441?source=most_viewed |archive-date=2011-12-01 |url-status=dead }}

=Opening of Regal Entertainment Group=

Downtown San Bernardino had a large, luxurious, two-story theater until it closed in September 2008.{{cite news|url=http://www.sbsun.com/sanbernardino/ci_10595691 |title=SB cinema fades to black |last=Edwards |first=Andrew |date=2008-09-29 |work=San Bernardino County Sun |access-date=2008-10-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929002339/http://www.sbsun.com/sanbernardino/ci_10595691 |archive-date=2011-09-29 }} Maya Cinemas was expected to open at the old site of the CinemaStar on February 27, 2009, however it failed to do so, and plans for a downtown San Bernardino theater were scratched.{{cite news|url=https://abc7.com/archive/8377408/|title=CinemaStar theater multiplex an economic boon for San Bernardino|last=Juares|first=Leticia|date=2011-10-03|work=ABC 7 San Bernardinol|access-date=2011-10-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008120407/http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news%2Flocal%2Finland_empire&id=8377408|archive-date=2011-10-08|url-status=live}} As of January 2011, Regal Entertainment Group was in negotiations with the city of San Bernardino to open a theater in the former Cinema Star site. In November 2011, the city of San Bernardino approved a negotiation with Regal has now taken over/rehabilitated the theater, which opened on June 29, 2012 with RPX under the name of Regal San Bernardino Theater Square Stadium 14 & RPX.{{cite web|author=LAURIE LUCAS |url=http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_D_nregal15.12068c3.html |title=SAN BERNARDINO: Downtown cinema could open by fall |newspaper=The Press-Enterprise |date=2011-01-14 |access-date=2011-12-10}}{{cite web |url=http://www.regmovies.com/grand-openings/ |title=Grand Opening Locations | Regal Theaters |publisher=Regmovies.com |access-date=2011-12-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111203215727/https://www.regmovies.com/grand-openings/ |archive-date=2011-12-03 |url-status=dead }}

Norman F. Feldheym Central Library

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The Norman F. Feldheym Central Library is the flagship of the San Bernardino Public Library system. It opened on September 30, 1985, and is the city's fifth central library building since the first one was operated out of a rented house in 1891. Architects Gregory Villanueva and Oscar Arnoni designed the {{convert|64000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} $6 million facility, which was named in honor of the late Rabbi Norman F. Feldheym.{{cite web|url=http://www.sbpl.org/about_us.pdf|title=About Us|publisher=San Bernardino Public Library|access-date=2008-10-12}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}} The library provides a number of cultural enrichment programs for youth and adults in the local community.{{cite news|url=http://www.sbsun.com/search/ci_8431912|title=Librarian focuses on youth needs|last=Nolan|first=Michel|date=2008-03-02|work=San Bernardino County Sun|access-date=2008-10-12}} Partnering with the San Bernardino City Unified School District, the library supports a community Reading Festival for third-graders and their families.{{cite news|url=http://www.sbsun.com/search/ci_4793858|title=Librarian makes big mark beyond books|last=Nolan|first=Michel|date=2006-12-07|work=San Bernardino County Sun|access-date=2008-10-12}} The library also sponsors an annual book fair at Cal State San Bernardino, reading clubs, and an "Academy of Public Scholars" critical review club devoted to works of Continental philosophy.{{cite news|url=http://www.pe.com/localnews/highereducation/stories/PE_News_Local_S_nbook22.4b13f2e.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120919175057/http://www.pe.com/localnews/highereducation/stories/PE_News_Local_S_nbook22.4b13f2e.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-09-19|title=Cal State book fair honors disappearing independent booksellers|last=Minaya|first=Zeke|date=2008-06-21|work=Press Enterprise|access-date=2008-10-12}}{{cite news|url=http://www.pe.com/localnews/redlands/stories/PE_News_Local_B_bspot11.3e5ecf9.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131090018/http://www.pe.com/localnews/redlands/stories/PE_News_Local_B_bspot11.3e5ecf9.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-01-31|title=Academy of Public Scholars is for Redlands bookworms seeking a challenge|last=Schoenmann|first=Matt|date=2008-03-06|work=Press Enterprise|access-date=2008-10-12}}

City Hall

San Bernardino's third City Hall was built by John M. Cooper in 1937-1938 and demolished in 1969.{{Cite web |title=City of San Bernardino, City Hall #3, Carousel, San Bernardino, CA (1937-1938) demolished |url=https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/20404/ |publisher=University of Washington Pacific Coast Architecture Database |accessdate=October 11, 2024 |author=Alan Michelson |language=en-US}}

San Bernardino's current City Hall, its fourth iteration, is a six-story building designed in 1963 by César Pelli to reflect the urban environment around it.{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.san-bernardino.ca.us/about/history/city_halls_of_san_bernardino.asp|title=City of San Bernardino - City Halls of San Bernardino|publisher=www.ci.san-bernardino.ca.us|access-date=2008-02-07}} Completed in 1972, the City Hall is modernist in style,David Walters, "Pelli, Cesar 1926-" in Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture (Vol. 3), p. 994 (ed. R. Stephen Sennott; Fitzroy Dearborn: 2004). has curtain walls, and is clad entirely in glass, with slim aluminum mullions.Michael J. Crosbie, Curtain Walls: Recent Developments by Cesar Pelli & Associates, (Walter de Gruyter: 2005), p. 20. Parts of the building are raised off the ground by pilotis.Raul A. Barreneche, Joseph Giovannini, & Hiroyuki Suzuki, Sections Through a Practice: Cesar Pelli & Associates (Hatje Cantz, 2003), p. 578.

Downtown universities

American Sports University was a private, non-profit {{Cite web |url=http://www.americansportsuniversity.com/about_5.php |title=::: American Sports University ::: |access-date=2010-08-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100924014129/http://americansportsuniversity.com/about_5.php |archive-date=2010-09-24 |url-status=dead }} sports business university in the downtown area which has remained unaccredited since its inception in 2006; it is seeking accreditation.{{Citation

|last = Becker

|first = Michael

|title = Unique sports university kicks off in San Bernardino

|date = 2008-09-24

|access-date = 2009-12-02

|work = Press Enterprise

|url = http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_sportsu25.411dc44.html

}} It was granted approval to operate from the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education of the State of California. It closed in 2016.

California State University, San Bernardino has plans to open a downtown campus/center near the 2nd/E Street intersection.

Transportation

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=Transit Center=

The Downtown Transit Center is located on a five-acre site located on the southwest corner of Rialto Avenue and E Street near the San Manuel Stadium. The Transit Center connects the Mountain Areas and the High Desert with the rest of Southern California, via Omnitrans, the Mountain Area Regional Transit Authority and the Victor Valley Transit Authority. It serves as a transfer point for bus routes the county, with connections to the sbX Bus Rapid Transit system, which connects Verdemont/California State University, San Bernardino to the Veterans Hospital in Loma Linda and the Downtown San Bernardino Passenger Rail System; which is a one-mile Metrolink extension from the Santa Fe Depot, and the Arrow commuter rail service with stops en route to the University of Redlands.{{cite news|url=http://www.pe.com/articles/transit-684265-morris-million.html|title=SAN BERNARDINO: Agencies pool money for transit center, Metrolink extension|last=Macduff|first=Cassie|date=February 26, 2014|newspaper=The Press-Enterprise|access-date=2016-03-16}}{{cite web |url=http://www.downtownsanbernardino.org/businesses-and-services-directory/15/192/intermodal-transit-center-and-village |title=Downtown San Bernardino Transit Center - Downtown San Bernardino |access-date=2013-06-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130624221911/http://www.downtownsanbernardino.org/businesses-and-services-directory/15/192/intermodal-transit-center-and-village |archive-date=2013-06-24 }}{{Cite web|url=http://omnitrans.org/blog/san-bernardino-transit-center-2/san-bernardino-transit-center-a-closer-look/|title=San Bernardino Transit Center: a closer look|website=Omnitrans.org|date=July 25, 2012}}

=San Bernardino International Airport=

The San Bernardino International Airport provides both domestic and international air services. Bus services serve the airport, which lies two miles (5 km) from downtown.

Buildings

=Main buildings=

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class="wikitable"
Rank ! Name ! Street address ! Year ! Use
1 \| San Bernardino Justice Center \| West 3rd St., San Bernardino \| 2014 \| Government
2 \| Rosa Parks Memorial Building \| 464 West 4th St., San Bernardino \| 1998 \| Government
3 \| The Enterprise Building{{Cite web\|url=https://theenterprisebuilding.com/\|title=The Enterprise Building \|website=Theenterprisebuilding.com}} as of 2017 (formerly known as: The Andreson Building) \| 320 North E St., San Bernardino \| 1927 \| Office Space and Entertainment Hub
4 \| Hotel & Convention Center \| 295 North E St., San Bernardino \| 1987 \| Hotel
5 \| St. Bernardine Plaza \| Fifth St., San Bernardino \| \| Residential
6 \|Vanir Tower \| 290 North D St., San Bernardino \| 1974 \| Office
7 \| San Bernardino City Hall \| 300 North D St., San Bernardino \| \| Government
8 \|303 Building \| 303 West Third St. San Bernardino \| 1966 \| Government
9 \| The Heritage Building \| 440 W. Court St. San Bernardino \| 1946

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Rank

! Name

! Street address

! Year

! Use

| San Bernardino Justice Center

| West 3rd St., San Bernardino

| 2014

| Government

| Rosa Parks Memorial Building

| 464 West 4th St., San Bernardino

| 1998

| Government

| The Enterprise Building{{Cite web|url=https://theenterprisebuilding.com/|title=The Enterprise Building |website=Theenterprisebuilding.com}} *as of 2017* (formerly known as: The Andreson Building)

| 320 North E St., San Bernardino

| 1927

| Office Space and Entertainment Hub

| Hotel & Convention Center

| 295 North E St., San Bernardino

| 1987

| Hotel

| St. Bernardine Plaza

| Fifth St., San Bernardino

| Residential

|Vanir Tower

| 290 North D St., San Bernardino