Year: 2024

Ed & his wife Louise spent 60 wonderful years together. They settled here in Irvine in the 1970s, living in the Turtle Rock and University Park neighborhoods.

Ed was instrumental in the City’s naming of Sepulveda Vista Point in South Irvine. This year, the City is naming the road leading up to the park after Ed.

Ed also volunteered alongside other veterans and their families in support of the Veterans Memorial Park & Cemetery at the Great Park. In fact, he gathered more than 4,000 signatures for the Veterans Cemetery ballot initiative.

Now that deal, brokered by Vice Mayor Larry Agran with Council support, is on the verge of also putting hundreds of millions of dollars into the City’s coffers.

 
Last year’s deal had All American Asphalt agreeing to sell its North Irvine plant and property to the City. The City would then shut the plant down and use the site and adjacent City-owned parcels to create a 700-acre nature preserve.

The Irvine Company agreed to dedicate to the City a 70-acre parcel at Jeffrey Road and Portola Parkway zoned for residential development, which the City would then sell to developers to cover the cost of purchasing the plant.

 
The cost of the asphalt plant purchase and site cleanup was estimated at $330 million, and the sale of the residential property was estimated to just about cover that.

 
Now, a year later, the bids are in and the Council has accepted Brookfield Residential’s offer of $600-650 million for the land and development rights to what’s been dubbed Gateway Village.