Mission Viejo Entertainment Magazine
Photo: flowers in bloom at Mission Hospital
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to our entertainment edition for the Mission Viejo, California area.
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Viejo, CA. community.
Mission
Viejo, California is home to nearly 100,000 residents, located in
Southern Orange County. The city's name is a reference to Rancho Mission
Viejo, a large Spanish land grant from which the community was founded.
Mission
Viejo's main shopping mall, The Shops at Mission Viejo, is located off
Interstate 5 freeway and Crown Valley Parkway. It is the southernmost
mall in Orange County and the Los Angeles Metro Area. The mall features
major stores including Nordstrom, Macy's, Saks Fifth Avenue, Gap, Tommy
Bahama, Old Navy, Abercrombie and Fitch, Apple Store and others.
Mission Hospital
is the largest hospital in south Orange County and serves as the area's
regional trauma center. It also offers one of two CHOC (Children's
Hospital of Orange County) locations providing outstanding care for
children.
Mission
Hospital is a critical asset to the region. It is undergoing a
multi-year campus expansion, which includes emergency services,
conference and medical office space as well as a new in-patient hospital
tower. Other medical facilities and offices have clustered around the
hospital. It is conveniently located off the I-5 Crown Valley Parkway
exit about half a mile from the freeway.
Saddleback College, near the Shops at Mission Viejo and Capistrano Valley High School, is a large junior college in the southern half of the city.
It
is mistakenly believed by some local residents that "Mission Viejo" is a
Spanish translation of "Old Mission"; however, the correct Spanish
translation of "old mission" is "misión vieja." (wikipedia)
Misison Viejo History
The hilly region which Mission Viejo
occupies was primarily used as cattle and sheep grazing land, as it was
of little use to farmers. It was one of the last regions of Orange
County to be urbanized due to its geologic complexity.
Englishman Juan (John) Forster,
husband of Mexican Governor Pío Pico's sister Ysidora, acquired the
Rancho Trabuco (future Mission Viejo and Rancho Santa Margarita) from
Santiago Arguello.
Forster provided fresh horses to
American military forces led by Commodore Robert F. Stockton and General
Kearney on their march from San Diego to retake Los Angeles during the
Mexican-American War. The force camped in Lake Forest along their march.
Early developers in the 1960s dismissed most of the land in the area as simply "undevelopable".
In the early 1970s, urban planner
Donald Bren, who would later become the president of the Irvine Company,
drafted a master plan which placed roads in the valleys and houses on
the hills, and contoured to the geography of the area.
The plan worked, and by 1980 much of the city of Mission Viejo was completed.
During the late 1970s and the 1980s,
houses in Mission Viejo were in such high demand that housing tracts
often sold out before construction even began on them. The houses and
shopping centers in the city are almost uniformly designed in a Spanish
mission style, with "adobe"-like stucco walls and barrel-tile roofs.
Many point to Mission Viejo as the
first and largest manifestation of Donald Bren's obsession with Spanish
architecture, which would again become apparent with his developments in
Irvine and Newport Beach.
In the late 1990s to early 2000s,
Mission Viejo, California became a major suburban city, one of the many
communities bringing attention to "South (Orange) County" (wikipedia)
(Photo above): a roadrunner stops to take a breath near the Casta del Sol Golf Course.
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Lake Mission Viejo
(Photo below) At the center of the
city is a man-made lake, Lake Mission Viejo. This lake is a private
association for Mission Viejo residents. Lake Mission Viejo is near the
city's northern tip with the backdrop of Santiago Peak about five milies
further north. Custom waterfront homes, condominiums, boat rentals, and
swim beaches surround the lake. There are two main beaches, Playa del
Norte and Playa del Este, with a few smaller, private beaches. Lake Mission Association web site.
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