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ER, can you give a little more info? What is the location of this Assisted Living facility? Is it behind the gates of Santaluz, or elsewhere? The reason I ask is because I am wondering if it is the ongoing development on the north side of Carmel Valley Road, between the Black Mountain Community Park with the baseball fields, and the turnoff for Ivy Gate? Someone told me that they had heard that it might be developed as senior living, but it seems like an odd location and it looks like they are building small homesites rather than configuring the land to accommodate a large footprint building.
I am very interested in local issues but my free time is almost nil, unfortunately.[/quote]
Black Mountain Ranch (Santaluz + Del Sur) is supposed to have 300-room resort. The plan was to have two golf courses, one in Santaluz and one (public) in Del Sur. The resort was supposed to be adjacent to the north course. The Del Sur golf course was scrapped few years ago (commercial sqft was increased instead), but the resort is still on. That’s one possibility. The other is another high-end subdivision similar to Ivy Gate.[/quote]
I don’t see this ever happening. Santaluz’s Golf course is really nice. I don’t see anything like that ever coming and Del Sur will never see a golf course. Not sure about the resort but I don’t see that happening either.
Yes, BG much of my post involved raising kids because more and more that is the profile of people buying in my area. The developers of my development NEVER imagined that there would be so many families with young kids moving here. But there is a reason for that.
This entire area is wonderful for raising kids. And yes I’ve talked to many people that were originally looking at other areas but ultimately they decided and are deciding to buy in this area for the lifestyle play that they could never get in some of these other areas you are talking about.
Sure, not everyone wants to be so far from downtown SD. But honesty speaking, many people have NO desire or need to be close to downtown SD. After all, there is no real job center downtown. Many of the job centers are out around here vs. downtown. I enjoy going downtown once in a while but I’d have no need or desire to live down there.
Which begs the question…what’s so desirable in living close to downtown? Especially if you have kids.
And VERY FEW people will ever really get an “ocean view” in the area. So I think that’s a relatively moot point to me as well. And I’m not sure who these people you speak of of “race cars and yachts” but that isn’t the profile of the typical buyer in San Diego.
I mention quality of life raising kids because that is what I think is important with families moving to the area. The families I know buying in the area certainly aren’t race cars or yacht owners. They are just hardworking professionals that want to send their kids to excellent schools, live in a safe and beautiful environment amongst their peers and be content with where they live.
And nope, many of the new buyers here never even heard of the development before buying. Many like me initially were going to buy in other areas but some of them found it by accident, some of them from their realtors and some on various blogs.
BG, you post some great information and you’re a wealth of information but IMHO (and please don’t take offense to this) but I think much of what you write is not based on objectivity. And based on what you are writing, it’s clear you don’t personally know people buying in this area or talked to new families that are moving to this area and hearing why they moved to the area.
Again, I hope you don’t take offense to this but you just don’t seem to be objective in many instances. Or you mention things that aren’t relevant like ocean views, yachts or race cars?
