 Irvine Company Headquarters building in Newport Beach, CA. The Irvine Company is a privately held real estate development company based in Newport Beach, Orange County, California. Donald Bren is its Chairman. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1536x2048, 255 KB) Headquarters of the Irvine Company - 550 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, CA. File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Irvine Company ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1536x2048, 255 KB) Headquarters of the Irvine Company - 550 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, CA. File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Irvine Company ...
A real estate developer builds on land, thereby increasing its value. ...
Location of Newport Beach within Orange County, California. ...
Cities in Orange County Orange County is a county in Southern California, United States. ...
Donald Leroy Bren (born 1932) is a US real estate mogul born in Los Angeles, and currently residing in Newport Beach, CA. He is the son of Hollywood producer Milton Bren and the stepson of actress Claire Trevor. ...
Operations The Irvine Company develops suburban master-planned communities throughout central and southern Orange County. Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation. ...
A New town or planned community or planned city is a city, town, or community that was designed from scratch, and grew up more or less following the plan. ...
The 94,000 acre (380 km²) Irvine Ranch, of which the company retains 44,000 acres (180 km²) for development and the remainder as wilderness and recreational preserves, remains its core holding. The Ranch encompasses almost one fifth of Orange County, from the Pacific Ocean and Newport Bay, Laguna Beach, and Santa Ana Canyon, to the boundary of the Cleveland National Forest. Laguna Beach is the name of several places in the United States, and a TV show: Laguna Beach in California Laguna Beach in Florida Laguna Beach the reality soap opera on MTV This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the...
Santa Ana Canyon is where the Santa Ana River passes between the Santa Ana Mountains and the Chino Hills at the border between Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties. ...
The Cleveland National Forest encompasses most of the Santa Ana Mountains of Southern California. ...
A partial list of cities within the boundaries of the Irvine Ranch includes:
The Irvine Company also owns several commercial areas, such as The Tustin Market Place, Fashion Island, which Newport Beach's Newport Center district surrounds, and the Irvine Spectrum Center. Official website: http://ci. ...
Location of Anaheim within Orange County, California Coordinates: Country United States State California County Orange Government - Mayor Curt Pringle Area - City 50. ...
Anaheim Hills is a residential community encompassing the eastern portions of the city of Anaheim, in Orange County, California. ...
Location of Irvine within Orange County, California. ...
Location of Tustin within Orange County, California. ...
Tustin Ranch is a community located in the city of Tustin, California in Orange County, California. ...
Nickname: Motto: A Slice of Old Town Charm Location of Orange within Orange County, California. ...
Location of Newport Beach within Orange County, California. ...
Tustin Market Place (sometimes referred to as the Tustin/Irvine Market Place) is a shopping retail center located in Tustin, California and Irvine, California. ...
Fashion Island is a large open air shopping mall located in Newport Beach, California. ...
Newport Center is a business park located in Newport Beach, California. ...
The Irvine Spectrum Center is an outdoor mall in Irvine, California centered on a large Edwards 21 Cinema Movie Theater. ...
History The Irvine Company grew out of the 185 square mile (479 km²) ranch James Irvine, Benjamin and Thomas Flint, and Llewellyn Bixby founded in 1864 from Mexican and Spanish land grants. The 2nd president of Ohio University (1822-1824), located in Athens, OH. ...
A land grant is a gift of land made by the government for projects such as roads, railroads, or especially academic institutions. ...
Irvine and his partners began by purchasing the Rancho San Joaquin, which constitutes the coastal half of the present-day ranch, from the Mexican aristocrat Jose Antonio Sepulveda. A drought that killed his livestock forced Sepulveda to foreclose his ranch. The partners purchased the second half, Rancho Lomas de Santiago—largely unfarmable due to its steep, hilly terrain—in 1866 from the Santa Ana-based agricultural entrepreneur William Wolfskill, who had used it largely as a sheep ranch. Location of Santa Ana within Orange County, California. ...
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In 1953, the National Scout Jamboree was held on Irvine Ranch land in the area of what is now Fashion Island Shopping Center. Jamboree Road, running from Newport Beach to Orange, was built to allow people to travel to the jamboree from nearby train stations. A national Scout jamboree is a gathering, or jamboree of thousands of members of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), usually held every four years and organized by the BSA National Council. ...
A typical street on Balboa Island. ...
In 1959 the company donated 1000 acres (4 km²) and sold 500 acres (2 km²) near Newport Beach to the University of California for construction of a new UC campus (map). The university and company together designed the Irvine Ranch Master Plan for developing the surrounding area. The city of Irvine, whose citizens officially incorporated it in 1971, grew around the campus. Berkeley Davis Irvine Los Angeles Merced San Diego Santa Barbara Santa Cruz UC Office of the President in Oakland The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the state of California. ...
Location of Irvine within Orange County, California. ...
In 2007, the company decided to prevent Wild Rivers water park, one of the largest sources of entertainment for the entire community, from renewing its lease after operating for over 20 successful years. It currently plans to build more homes on this land after the end of this operating season.
Fictional accounts - The Irvine Company is the model for The O.C.'s The Newport Group, Orange County's most-powerful real estate developer.
The O.C. is an American teen drama television series that originally aired on FOX in the United States from August 5, 2003, to February 22, 2007, running a total of four seasons. ...
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