Vernon is an untapped market for retail. Certain amenities like restaurants, health and wellness retail, and big-box businesses are absent in the city whose daytime population swells to 55,000 diverse and skilled workers. Vernon’s neighboring cities of Commerce, Huntington Park, Maywood, Bell, and the unincorporated LA areas of the Downtown Arts District, Boyle Heights, and East LA are home to just over 450,000 people. Access to these consumers and workforce, coupled with the city’s adjacency to the Arts District (less than a mile north on Santa Fe Ave.), are reasons to consider developing in Vernon.