RIVERSIDE – (INT) - The California Air Resources Board has voted to relocate its motor vehicle and engine emissions testing and research facility from El Monte to an 18-acre site at the UC Riverside. It represents a $366 million investment and 400 high-paying jobs.

The Board chose Riverside after deciding that land owned by the University of California on Iowa Avenue near Martin Luther King Boulevard would provide the best opportunity for growth in the coming decades and for collaboration with world-class air quality research already underway at UC Riverside.

“It’s great news for UC Riverside, the city and county, and for the people of California,” UCR Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox said. “This facility will bring together two world-class institutions working in air quality and emissions science and promises to create a whole range of synergies that simply wouldn’t be possible otherwise.”

Story Date: March 27, 2016