NEWS STORY OF INTEREST Northgate Market Files Lawsuit Seeking to Block Workforce Multifamily Housing Development in The City of Riverside in the Midst of a Housing Crisis
Recent legal action filed by family-owned Hispanic supermarket Northgate Market seeks to prevent development of multifamily workforce housing in the City of Riverside despite the City of Riverside’s and State of California’s desperate need for more housing The Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, will hear an appeal from a lower court’s ruling enjoining a 450-apartment unit project known as Magnolia Flats, located adjacent to Northgate Market in Riverside, California. Northgate Market filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent the housing from being built because it would (allegedly) interfere with its delivery trucks which currently drive through an easement-protected drive aisle between Northgate and the housing site sought to be developed. The Magnolia Flats developer has stated that the project has accommodated Northgate’s desire to drive their delivery trucks across the Magnolia Flats development site with multiple ingress and egress options. Magnolia...