The master plan for Great Park Neighborhoods knocks down those walls, Martin said.
But there’s no reason for anyone within one village to go to another village.” There might be four or five small neighborhoods with separate entrances to a park. They’re often walled in and have large monuments at the main streets that lead into them, and a park in the middle and a school at the core. “It’s a village concept, and they are designed to be quite distinct and self-contained.
“They’re great at what they do,” Martin said of Irvine-type planned cities, which have been copied widely in the U.S. Many are now “aging in place,” or remaining in their residences after they retire – testament to the long-term success of those communities. Orange County’s original master-planned towns came along at the right moment they proved attractive to young baby boomers buying their first homes and starting families. FivePoint is developing large neighborhoods in Newhall and in San Francisco near the former site of Candlestick Park. He was the former vice president of marketing for Coto de Caza, then worked with industry giant Lennar Corp. Martin is no stranger to master-planned communities in Orange County and elsewhere. “We’ve given a great deal of thought to what people currently desire in a community.” “The industry has learned and changed a lot here over the years,” said Tom Martin, vice president of product and planning for FivePoint. “People are looking for integrated uses – like a coffee shop, a bike shop, and small retail (stores) – within walking distance of home,” said Beth Callender, principal at San Diego’s Greenhaus Advertising & Marketing, in an assessment of MPC trends for Urban Land Magazine. Healthy living includes more walking and less driving.” And they’re all about amenities and services that allow them to live their lives in a fuller, healthier way. But people are now much more concerned with the quality of the community and interacting with other people. “Yes, pools and clubhouses are still important. FivePoint calls it “a holistic mix of residential, commercial, educational and recreational facilities.”įivePoint’s desire to closely integrate homes with services, businesses and schools is in keeping with the industrywide recognition that homebuyers are now opting for convenience and a sense of community over security and country-club comforts, according to Ken Perlman, principal at San Diego-based Real Estate Consulting. When it’s completed, the 2,100-acre plan will include more than 9,500 residences by 10 homebuilders, 138 acres of open space and trails and 61 acres of parkland linked by a system of greenbelts.īut it’s not just an endless sea of houses and pocket parks. The development opened in 2013 with Pavilion Park, a 726-home neighborhood. It incorporates many of the concepts common to modern master-planned communities. With Irvine’s Great Park Neighborhoods, developer FivePoint is bringing to life an ambitious residential project adjacent to the 1,300-acre Great Park being built on the site of a former Marine Corps air station. Here and elsewhere in the U.S., urban planners and home designers have carefully measured peoples’ changing needs, priorities, preferences and attitudes, recalibrating master-planned communities (MPCs, as they’re called in the industry) to serve and satisfy those demands. For better or worse, their perfectly manicured public spaces, ubiquitous red-tile roofs and beige homogeneity have come to define Southern California’s suburban landscape.īut our society has transformed profoundly in the last five decades. Master-planned communities have been part of the social and architectural fabric of Orange County since Mission Viejo and Irvine broke ground about half a century ago. Irvine gets a new master plan: See how FivePoint is connecting villages, returning to Americana style – Orange County Register Close Menu
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