Non-Residential Construction for Sendero

RANCHO MISSION VIEJO, CA-The successful launch of Sendero, the first village on the new 14,000-home Rancho Mission Viejo community here, will be receiving several new non-residential amenities within the next year. As GlobeSt.com reported earlier today, the village has sold more than 350 homes since its launch in June.

Slated for a Fall 2014 opening are Sendero Field, a 15-acre community park, and vegetable and fruit gardens via Sendero Farm. Also planned are a 10-acre Ranch Marketplace retail plaza and a fire station.

According to Nadine Corrigan, VP of marketing for Rancho Mission Viejo LLC, stewards of Rancho Mission Viejo and community master planners/developers, “The range of homes, diversity of social and recreational amenities, unique village-wide events and activities, as well as the spectacular open-space setting of Sendero, helps create a new model for multi-generational living, where active adults are provided with opportunities to intermingle with younger families and singles. This blending of the ages fosters the ability for residents to connect based on interests versus age, and creates a new model for inter-generational living.”

Very early homebuyer demographic information shows that the majority of Sendero residents have relocated from within South Orange County (primarily from the communities of Ladera Ranch, Mission Viejo, Laguna Hills, Rancho Santa Margarita and Aliso Veijo, in order of significance), as well as from Irvine and the coastal areas of Laguna Beach, Laguna Niguel and Newport Beach. Within Gavilan, the gated 55-plus enclave at Sendero, current homebuyers average between the ages of 60 and 70, while throughout the rest of Sendero, homebuyers average between the ages of 35 and 45, with some as young as the early 20s and as mature as their mid-60s.

Now open at Sendero are three clubhouses (one exclusive to Galivan residents), two fitness centers, pools, spas, a large, all-age village green with pathways leading to tot lots and picnic areas, bocce-ball courts, fire pits, turf playgrounds, a native plant garden, a putting green and hiking/biking trails accessing select open spaces and a County Regional trails system. A host of village-wide events have already been conducted for residents, with 2013 being capped off by the first annual “El Prado in Lights” holiday festival.

“In just six months, we've sold more than one-third of the homes planned for Sendero, and homeshopper traffic remains steady,” says Corrigan, who adds that at press time 200 households were expected to be occupied at the village. “Our early homebuyer demographics demonstrate a true inter-generational population mix as residents of all ages and families of all shapes and sizes make Sendero on the Ranch their new hometown.”