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The Marine Corps gave the owner of the land, a farmer named James Irvine Sr., $100,000 for 4,000 acres (20 km 2) including 1,600 acres (6.5 km 2) designated for a blimp base. Construction of MCAS El Toro began on 3 August 1942 on land previously owned by the Irvine Company.
The Irvine Company LLC is an American private company focused on real estate development. It is headquartered in Newport Beach, California, with a large portion of its operations centered in and around Irvine, California, a planned city of more than 300,000 people mainly designed by the Irvine Company. The company was founded by the Irvine ...
California's Great America, or simply Great America and abbreviated CGA, is a 112-acre (45 ha) amusement park located in Santa Clara, California, United States. Owned and operated by Cedar Fair , it originally opened in 1976 as one of two parks built by the Marriott Corporation .
Wild Rivers is a water park in Irvine, California, United States. It opened in July 1986 on the site of the former Lion Country Safari. [1] Following the expiration of its lease with The Irvine Company, it closed on September 25, 2011. [2] Since the closure, there have been plans to recreate Wild Rivers in Irvine on or near the Orange County ...
Irvine, California. ( 2020) [8] Irvine ( / ˈɜːrvaɪn /) is the largest city and a master-planned city in central Orange County, California, United States, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The Irvine Company started developing the area in the 1960s and the city was formally incorporated on December 28, 1971.
Joan Irvine Smith in 1937. Born as Athalie Anita Irvine, she was the only child of James Harvey Irvine, Jr. and Athalie Richardson. Her father died when she was 2 years old, and her grandfather, James Irvine II, died in 1947 and she inherited a minority share of the Irvine Company. [1] She lived in Beverly Hills with her mother and her second ...
The Irvine Ranch Natural Landmarks (also known collectively as Irvine Ranch Open Space [1]) are a collection of protected areas in Orange County, California in and around Irvine. They encompass almost 50,000 acres (20,000 ha) of land which was once a part of the Irvine Ranch owned by the Irvine Company. Almost 40,000 acres (16,000 ha) of the ...
The U.S. State of California currently has 42 statistical areas that have been delineated by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated seven combined statistical areas, 25 metropolitan statistical areas, and ten micropolitan statistical areas in California. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these in ...