Ten Inland Empire Submarkets. Your Landlord Is Counting on You Shopping One.

Peninsula Commercial Real Estate Group provides tenant representation across the Inland Empire, covering Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Riverside, Corona, San Bernardino, Fontana, Moreno Valley, Jurupa Valley, Temecula, and Murrieta. Corina Irvin, Founder & Principal, started the firm in 2019 and personally negotiates every industrial, office, and retail lease. Her track record spans more than $750 million across 10 million-plus square feet.

A Renewal You Never Tested Is a Renewal You Overpaid For

Most Inland Empire tenants negotiate against one building. The one they are already in.

The renewal notice shows up. The rate is higher. Someone checks it against what the landlord says the market is doing. Then the lease gets signed for another five or ten years.

Here is the method Peninsula CRE Group rejects: negotiating a renewal without touring competing buildings first. It feels efficient. It is the most expensive shortcut a tenant can take. A landlord has no reason to improve an offer when nothing is pulling you away.

There is a second assumption worth naming. Many tenants believe the broker listing the building is helping them. That broker’s duty runs to the owner. Most tenants simply never ask who is on which side.

Peninsula CRE Group takes no landlord listings anywhere in the Inland Empire. No property management contracts either. When Corina walks into a negotiation, no other client’s interests compete with yours.

Leverage is not how hard someone pushes. Leverage is a real, toured, shortlisted building your landlord knows about.

The Inland Empire Is Not One Market. It’s Three.

Ten submarkets. Three working corridors. That distinction is where your negotiating position comes from.

  • The Western Freight Core

    Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Fontana, and Jurupa Valley. The 10, the 15, and the 60 all run through it, and so does most of the region’s distribution and manufacturing space.

  • The Civic and Commercial Spine

    Riverside, San Bernardino, and Corona. Two county seats and a manufacturing city, connected by the 91 and the 215, with office, medical office, and infill industrial sitting side by side.

  • The Southern and Eastern Growth Corridor

    Moreno Valley, Temecula, and Murrieta. Newer inventory along the 215 and the 15, serving healthcare, retail, and companies that need room to grow.

A landlord is strongest when you only look inside their corridor. The moment a real option appears one corridor over, the conversation changes. Concessions that were unavailable become available.

That is why Peninsula CRE Group covers all ten. Not to claim territory. So the shortlist Corina brings to your landlord holds buildings that landlord has to worry about.

You do not have to move to benefit from this. Plenty of clients stay exactly where they are — on better terms, because someone showed the landlord what leaving would look like.

Every Lease Is Worked by a Principal. Every Time.

Corina Irvin has spent 15+ years in commercial real estate. Eight of those as a Director at Cushman & Wakefield in New York City and Los Angeles. Five more at Grubb & Ellis in Los Angeles. She holds a BS in Business Administration from USC with an emphasis in Real Estate Finance.

She was a conference speaker at the GlobeSt Women of Influence event and an Honoree at the CREi Women of Influence Summit, 2022 through 2025.

At many large firms, your transaction may end up handed to a junior broker. At Peninsula CRE Group, you work directly with a principal. Whether you need 2,000 square feet or 100,000, it is the same principal, start to finish.

The landlord typically pays the representation fee as part of the listing commission. For most tenants, senior-level representation costs nothing out of pocket.

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Tenant Representation in Ontario — Peninsula CRE Group

Peninsula CRE Group provides tenant representation in Ontario for companies leasing industrial, warehouse, and office space.

Ontario is really three markets wearing one city name. Air cargo and third-party logistics operations cluster around Ontario International Airport. Large-format distribution runs south toward Ontario Ranch and east along the Mission and Jurupa corridors. Office and medical office sit on their own along Haven Avenue and near the convention center, with a Metrolink station and the meeting point of the 10, the 15, and the 60 tying all of it together.

That is where most Ontario searches go wrong. A company compares buildings inside one of those three markets and never learns that a different product type, one exit away, would run the same operation for less money.

Corina Irvin handles Ontario leases personally, and she starts by widening the search rather than narrowing it. She tours across the categories that genuinely fit the operation, builds a shortlist, and brings it into the negotiation. Your landlord finds out other buildings want your business.

Industrial requirements here get decided before rent is ever discussed. Clear height, dock and yard capacity, power, cold storage, and truck routing determine which buildings can hold your operation at all. She leads with the specification.

One more thing worth stating plainly: Peninsula CRE Group holds no listing agreements and no property management contracts in Ontario. Corina has exactly one client in the room and it is you.

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Tenant Representation in Rancho Cucamonga — Peninsula CRE Group

Peninsula CRE Group provides tenant representation in Rancho Cucamonga for companies leasing office, medical office, and retail space.

Rancho Cucamonga carries a different tenant mix than the cities around it. The Haven Avenue corridor holds much of the west valley’s professional office inventory — accounting firms, financial services, engineering practices, medical groups. Victoria Gardens anchors regional retail. Lighter distribution and manufacturing space runs along Arrow Route and 4th Street, with the 15, the 10, and the 210 all within reach and a Metrolink station adding commuter access.

Tenants arrive here already attached. The commute works. The address reads well. Landlords understand that attachment and price directly against it.

Corina’s job is to keep your preference from becoming your negotiating position. She tours competing space in the city, then develops credible alternatives elsewhere in the west valley, so the landlord has to earn the renewal instead of assuming it.

She also reads the whole document, not just the rate. Operating expense pass-throughs, tenant improvement allowances, free rent, expansion rights, and exit terms all get negotiated. Rent is the number everyone watches. The other terms are where a decade of cost quietly accumulates, and they are the terms landlords expect nobody to fight over.

Professional offices, medical practices, and retail operators all sign leases in Rancho Cucamonga, and no two of those leases should look alike. Corina works each one herself.

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Tenant Representation in Riverside — Peninsula CRE Group

Peninsula CRE Group provides tenant representation in Riverside for companies leasing office, medical office, and industrial space.

Riverside is the county seat, and that sets the tenant base. County government, the courts, and the law and professional firms that work alongside them concentrate downtown near the Mission Inn district. UC Riverside brings research, technology, and a steady graduate pipeline. Healthcare systems operate across the city. Hunter Business Park and the corridors along the 60 hold light industrial and combined office/warehouse product. The 91, the 215, and the 60 all serve the city, and Metrolink runs west toward Orange and Los Angeles counties.

Riverside tenants have more options than almost anyone realizes. Very few use them, because comparing buildings properly takes hours and access that a business owner running a company does not have.

Corina supplies both. She tours space in the city, tours the credible alternatives around it, and turns a vague sense of the market into a shortlist you can act on. The landlord finds out that shortlist exists, which is the entire point.

Freeway access cuts both ways here. It makes the city easy to reach, and it makes leaving easy to threaten. A landlord who understands that a tenant can operate just as well fifteen minutes away negotiates very differently than one who assumes you are anchored.

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Tenant Representation in Corona — Peninsula CRE Group

Peninsula CRE Group provides tenant representation in Corona for companies leasing industrial and combined office/warehouse space.

Corona sits at the junction of the 91 and the 15, which makes it the western gateway of the Inland Empire and the closest industrial market to Orange County. Manufacturing runs deep — beverage and consumer products, automotive aftermarket, recreational vehicle suppliers, precision manufacturers. Business parks north of the 91 hold combined office/warehouse product. Retail concentrates along Ontario Avenue and around Dos Lagos, and Corona Regional Medical Center anchors healthcare demand.

That Orange County adjacency is the asset most tenants leave on the table. Companies priced out of the coast come here for the space, then run the entire search inside the city limits, as though the county line were a wall.

Corina runs it the other way. She identifies which Corona buildings genuinely fit the requirement, then develops real alternatives in the corridors on either side of the 91. A landlord seeing a tenant who can go west or east behaves nothing like a landlord who assumes you are stuck.

Manufacturing and distribution requirements are decided on operations, not on rate. Power, loading, yard depth, ceiling height, and freeway access determine whether a building works before the economics matter. She qualifies buildings on those terms first, then negotiates the ones that survive against each other.

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Tenant Representation in San Bernardino — Peninsula CRE Group

Peninsula CRE Group provides tenant representation in San Bernardino for companies leasing office, industrial, and warehouse space.

San Bernardino is a county seat and a freight hub at the same time. Government, the courts, and the professional firms around them occupy the downtown office core. San Bernardino International Airport, built on the former Norton Air Force Base, supports air cargo operations, and a BNSF intermodal facility moves container freight through the city. The 215 and the 10 cross here, the San Bernardino Transit Center connects Metrolink and regional bus service, and Cal State San Bernardino supplies workforce across the valley.

Two economies in one city means two kinds of landlords, and they negotiate nothing alike. A civic-corridor office owner is thinking about occupancy and image. A logistics landlord near the rail yard is thinking about throughput and credit. Walk into either conversation with the wrong assumptions and you lose ground before the first counter.

Corina has negotiated across both types for fifteen years and adjusts the approach to the owner in front of her. She identifies the buildings that fit the requirement, then builds competing options across the valley so the landlord you actually want has to compete to keep you.

Peninsula CRE Group represents tenants and owner-users in San Bernardino. Never landlords, never both sides. That is structural, not a preference with exceptions, and it is why her read on a building can be blunt.

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Tenant Representation in Fontana — Peninsula CRE Group

Peninsula CRE Group provides tenant representation in Fontana for companies leasing industrial and warehouse space.

Fontana was a steel town before it was a logistics town, and both legacies still sit in the building stock. Heavy manufacturing and metals operations trace back to the old Kaiser Steel works. Large-format distribution now runs along the 10 and the Sierra Avenue corridor, with the 15 carrying freight north and south and rail service close by.

Industrial requirements here are unforgiving. Clear height, dock doors, truck court depth, trailer parking, power capacity, and sprinkler classification decide whether a building can run your operation. Get one of those wrong and the mistake costs you every single day you occupy the space, for the entire lease term.

So Corina runs these searches with the technical requirement leading, not the rent number. She has negotiated industrial and combined office/warehouse transactions where highly specific power, HVAC, and operational specs determined which buildings qualified at all. Most of the market gets eliminated on paper before anyone tours.

Once the qualifying buildings are identified, she negotiates them against each other. A landlord who assumes you have nowhere else to go behaves very differently than one watching a competitor bid for your operation.

Requirements in Fontana run from 2,000 square feet to 100,000 and beyond, and the same principal works all of them.

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Tenant Representation in Moreno Valley — Peninsula CRE Group

Peninsula CRE Group provides tenant representation in Moreno Valley for companies leasing industrial, warehouse, and medical office space.

Moreno Valley became a distribution market on the strength of two freeways and a lot of developable land. The 60 and the 215 frame the city, large-format fulfillment and distribution buildings run east along the 60, and March Air Reserve Base sits at the southern edge with its own air cargo operations. Healthcare is the second engine — Riverside University Health System Medical Center is here, and medical office demand follows it. Retail concentrates around Towngate and along Moreno Beach Drive.

Companies leasing here are usually solving for growth. Throughput. Labor access. A building that holds the next three years instead of the last three.

Growth requirements are the easiest ones to compromise away when you search alone. A listing broker answers the parts of your requirement that fit the building they represent and lets the rest quietly disappear. You end up touring what is available rather than what you asked for.

Corina runs the search from your side and keeps the requirement intact, including the parts that are inconvenient. Then she develops real options across and beyond the 60 corridor, so the landlord you most want to lease from knows they are being compared.

Expansion rights and exit terms matter more here than almost anywhere. A growing company that signs without them pays twice — once for the space, again for the flexibility it did not negotiate.

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Tenant Representation in Jurupa Valley — Peninsula CRE Group

Peninsula CRE Group provides tenant representation in Jurupa Valley for companies leasing industrial and warehouse space.

Jurupa Valley holds one of the densest freight corridors in Southern California. The Mira Loma area carries a long-established concentration of distribution and cross-dock buildings, the 60 runs through the city, the 15 sits at its western edge, and Union Pacific rail service along with aggregate and materials operations have shaped the local economy for decades. The city incorporated in 2011, so much of the commercial inventory predates its current municipal identity.

That history is a negotiating factor, not a footnote. Building ages, truck access, and site constraints vary enormously from property to property. Two buildings a mile apart can perform completely differently for the same operation, and the cheaper one is often the one that costs you more to run.

Corina walks the sites and asks those questions before you sign, not after. Truck court depth, trailer storage, dock configuration, power, and access routing get measured against how your operation actually moves freight.

Then she negotiates the buildings that qualify against each other. That comparison is what produces tenant improvement dollars, free rent, and terms a landlord would never offer a tenant with no alternative. Without it, you are accepting an opening position and calling it a deal.

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Tenant Representation in Temecula — Peninsula CRE Group

Peninsula CRE Group provides tenant representation in Temecula for companies leasing medical office, industrial, and retail space.

Temecula sits on the 15 at the southern end of Riverside County, close enough to San Diego County that both its labor market and its tenant base pull from two directions. Medical device and precision manufacturing companies operate in the business parks off Winchester and Ynez roads. Temecula Valley Hospital anchors a growing healthcare and medical office cluster. Old Town and the Promenade drive retail demand, and the wine country east of the city brings visitor traffic supporting hospitality and service businesses.

That two-county pull is leverage almost nobody uses. A landlord assumes a local company has to stay local. A tenant holding a credible option in Murrieta, Escondido, or Carlsbad is negotiating from an entirely different position, and the numbers move accordingly.

Corina builds those options deliberately. She tours space in the city, develops real alternatives inside and outside the submarket, and brings the full shortlist into the negotiation.

Medical office requirements get specific fast. Plumbing, power, patient flow, parking ratios, and whether the build-out you need is even permitted in that building. Those questions get asked during the tour, because the answers are expensive to discover afterward.

Peninsula CRE Group represents tenants and owner-users in Temecula only. No landlord side. No dual agency.

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Tenant Representation in Murrieta — Peninsula CRE Group

Peninsula CRE Group provides tenant representation in Murrieta for companies leasing medical office, office, and retail space.

Murrieta sits where the 15 and the 215 meet, and healthcare has become its defining commercial sector. Loma Linda University Medical Center–Murrieta and the systems around it have drawn a dense concentration of medical office, specialty practices, and outpatient services. Retail runs along Madison Avenue and the Los Alamos corridor. Lighter industrial and flexible commercial space sits along Jefferson Avenue. A large commuter base travels to San Diego and Orange counties, which shapes the labor pool and the way landlords price space.

Healthcare tenants face a particular problem here. Suitable medical space is concentrated in a small number of buildings, and every landlord in that group knows exactly how short the list is. A practice negotiating without alternatives is negotiating from nowhere.

Corina builds the alternatives anyway. She evaluates the local options, develops credible comparisons in the surrounding corridor, and negotiates build-out concessions rather than accepting whatever the standard offer contains.

She has handled medical office transactions where specialized equipment, patient flow, and future growth all had to be solved with minimal renovation cost. Every one of those outcomes was decided in the lease, not after move-in. The allowance you negotiate at signing is the money you have to build the space you need.

Who Peninsula CRE Group Is Not Built For

Some tenants will be better served somewhere else, and it is worth saying so plainly.

  • If you want to deal directly with the listing broker because it feels like it will save you money

    This is not a fit. That broker works for the owner. Tenants who skip independent representation do not save a commission — the landlord pays it either way. They just negotiate with nobody on their side.

  • If you want a large national brokerage team experience, with a senior name on the pitch and a junior broker doing the work

    Peninsula CRE Group is the wrong choice. There is no team to hand your lease to. There is Corina.

  • If you want the fastest possible close with no touring and no comparison

    She will say so rather than take the assignment. The comparison is the product. Remove it and there is nothing left to negotiate with.

  • Peninsula CRE Group also does not represent landlords, work in residential real estate, or provide property management or investment sales.

    Owner-user purchases are in scope — a company buying a building to occupy is a client. A company buying to lease out is not.

If you need space in the Inland Empire and want one experienced principal accountable for the outcome, you are exactly who this firm was built for.

Proof From Completed Transactions

Real completed Southern California transactions, anonymized by industry at the client’s request.

  • A growing, family-owned business came to Corina struggling to get traction. Despite being successful and expanding quickly, they were not getting meaningful engagement from landlords or listing brokers, and they could not find a facility that supported their operations and future growth. She led the search, identified the right property, and negotiated an industrial lease of 100,000 SF on a 10-year lease term. The concessions included substantial tenant improvement dollars, rent abatement, and lease terms that reduced occupancy costs and preserved capital for continued expansion.

  • A distribution company outgrew its warehouse and needed more loading capacity while staying close to its customers and transport routes. Corina evaluated numerous facilities and negotiated flexible terms. They moved into a facility built to support future growth with upfront occupancy costs held down.

  • An engineering company needed highly specific electrical power, HVAC, and operational specs. Searching alone produced little response from listing brokers. Corina ran an extensive search, found a technically qualifying facility, and negotiated directly with the landlord. The result was a long-term lease meeting both office and warehouse needs.

  • A healthcare practice needed space for specialized equipment, efficient patient flow, and future growth with minimal renovation cost. Corina identified multiple medical office options and negotiated terms that reduced build-out costs.

Cesar Olmedo, a client, put it plainly in his review: he wouldn’t trust anyone else with his commercial real estate needs.

Southern California Doesn’t Stop at the County Line

Plenty of companies searching the Inland Empire should also be looking west. Sometimes the right building is in Torrance, or Irvine, or Carlsbad — and knowing that is exactly what gives you leverage here.

You can also review the full service list →, read Corina’s background →, or return to the Peninsula CRE Group homepage →.

Start Before Your Landlord Does

The tenants who get the best terms in the Inland Empire are not the toughest negotiators. They are the ones who started early enough to have options.

Six to eighteen months before expiration is the window. That is enough time to tour, shortlist, and build a real alternative before your landlord’s offer arrives.

Tell Corina what you need and where. She handles the search and the negotiation personally, start to finish.

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