IE attracting professional buildings - and employees

Contrary to a slowing housing market, office and industrial development is moving full steam ahead in the Inland Empire, showing no signs of a slowdown.

But these aren't your average Inland Empire buildings, and they're not attracting your average workers.

Within the concrete tilt-up warehouse and multi-story projects popping up all over the region, a new stride of professional workspace is making the region its home, according to local researchers who study the subject.

"Class A" office space might look like sky scrapers in downtown Los Angeles, but in places like Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario, Riverside and San Bernardino, these buildings come in four- and five-story, glossy-looking edifices that tower above swaths of strip malls and major thoroughfares.