Local contractor, Stronghold Engineering's work on the Riverside Municipal Auditorium and Soldier's Memorial Renovation Project in Downtown Riverside, has 

earned the company another two awards.  Stronghold's Chief Operating Officer, Scott Bailey, accepted, on behalf of the entire project team, an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Best Small Project Award as well as the Excellence in Safety Best Project for all of Southern California on December 5, 2013.

Stronghold's President and CEO Beverly Bailey stated, "Our Stronghold team was honored to have the opportunity to renovate this historical building in our backyard of Riverside.  To be recognized as the State of California's best project under $10M is not only a blessing but also continues to motivate us (Read more...) 

Riverside-based economist Patrick Edgett and his co-founder David Langley are the creators of a new app that hopes to solve the annoying problem of arriving somewhere only to have to wait in a long line.

The idea for WaitLess came to Edgett while he was visiting San Francisco with his wife late in 2012. He says they pulled up at a restaurant to meet friends and saw a long line. He remembers his heart sank thinking of how impatient his friend was and how annoying he would be. "I found myself really dreading it," he says. Eighteen months later, Edgett is launching WaitLess with his co-founder David Langley. The company has four full time staff, and three interns. It has spent just $4,500 getting its product out. "We've really learned how to stretch a buck," Edgett says. 

The recently launched app, which is focused initially on the wider Inland Southern California, is a workable solution to the problem of dodging real world lines. (Read more...)