Carmel Valley Canyons, mesas and gracious living Carmel Valley is an affluent master-planned community and neighborhood within
With easy access to San Diego and other Southern California communities,
San Diego, California. Originally named “North City West,” although the area had
Carmel Valley is an attractive hub for high-profile biotech (“Biotech Beach”), legal,
long been called Carmel Valley, construction began in 1983, with development
venture capital and communications technology businesses. It offers generous
restricted to mesa tops separated by canyon greenbelts to reduce metropolitan
amounts of office space (approximately 4.4 million square feet as of 2012) and
sprawl. Its familiar name reclaimed in the 1990s, Carmel Valley today supports
comfortable homes and schools for employees. The community is served by
a population of 48,721 (2013).
three primary shopping centers: Del Mar Highlands Town Center, Torrey Hills Shopping Center and the small Piazza Carmel, with additional retail planned.
The region’s early inhabitants were the La Jolla and Ipai peoples, who lived along the banks of Carmel Creek. Later settlement included miners who homesteaded the area following the Gold Rush, and still later, horse farms and agriculture. Though often confused with the northern California community of the same name, the name Carmel is taken from the Carmelite Sisters of Mercy, whose monastery, dispensary and dairy farm was established on Carmel Creek in 1905.
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In addition to sharing its name with Carmel Mountain, Carmel is a popular street name in the community.
When the master plan for Carmel Valley was proposed, the area had poor roads, deer, coyotes, bobcats and few permanent residents living in the rolling, sagecovered hills. Today, gracious homes, award-winning schools, retail, restaurants, athletic clubs, golf and easy access to the beach make Carmel Valley a highly
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desirable residential neighborhood. An extensive amount of open space and a network of trails reaches into adjacent Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve.
Based on information from California Regional Multiple Listing Service, Inc. for the period 03/01/2016 through 03/13/2017. Due to MLS reporting methods and allowable reporting policy, this data is only informational and may not be completely accurate. Therefore, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage does not guarantee the data accuracy. Data maintained by the MLS’s may not reflect all real estateactivity in the market.
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