Tejon Ranch area (Just south of Bakersfield) (San Jose, Fresno: real estate, 2015)

[volosong]

Originally Posted by dontbelievehim

Palmdale isnt cheap anymore. Cost of living in palmdale is similar to the cost of sacramento. Not sure about lancaster.

Palmdale and Lancaster are twin cities. Right next door to each other. Lancaster to the north, Palmdale to the south. Both are incorporated cities. Quartz Hill abuts them on the west side, but QH is unincorporated. The housing costs of all three are pretty similar to each other, comparing apples to apples.

[Pro1000]

Originally Posted by NJ Brazen_3133

If I recall correctly there is this odd Ikea placed in middle of nowhere. Right where, heading north to Bako on I-5, just before you hit the green fields that are right before Bako. So strange they put one there.

If Tejon Ranch is being developed, you would think Rosamond, or Mojave and Tehachapi see growth sooner.

That's an Ikea distribution center/warehouse.


I'm familiar with that area since I've been driving back and forth from LA to Fresno for most of my adult life. Will be interesting to see housing go up in that area and I've always wondered was that up next on the docket for the area. There is a Bakersfield city bus that goes out there and back. Not sure how many times it makes the trip out there. Probably 3-4 times a day at at least. I also thought the Lebec pitstop area off the 5 and Mountain Park Rd would get some housing one day. That's like 45 miles outside of Santa Clarita

[NJ Brazen_3133]

Originally Posted by dontbelievehim

Im pretty sure thats a distribution center or a warehouse

Originally Posted by Pro1000

That's an Ikea distribution center/warehouse.


I'm familiar with that area since I've been driving back and forth from LA to Fresno for most of my adult life. Will be interesting to see housing go up in that area and I've always wondered was that up next on the docket for the area. There is a Bakersfield city bus that goes out there and back. Not sure how many times it makes the trip out there. Probably 3-4 times a day at at least. I also thought the Lebec pitstop area off the 5 and Mountain Park Rd would get some housing one day. That's like 45 miles outside of Santa Clarita

Oh really, LOLZ, I was thinking of stopping by and grabbing meatballs next time I go there.

[apple92680]

Originally Posted by volosong

Palmdale and Lancaster are twin cities. Right next door to each other. Lancaster to the north, Palmdale to the south. Both are incorporated cities. Quartz Hill abuts them on the west side, but QH is unincorporated. The housing costs of all three are pretty similar to each other, comparing apples to apples.

There's hardly anything left of actual "Quartz Hill" anymore, besides the name.

Anything north of Avenue N has been annexed by the City of Palmdale. Anything south of Avenue L is now annexed by the City of Lancaster. One small area from 45th Street West, to 60th Street West, and from Avenue L to Avenue N (roughly 6 square miles) is unincorporated land.

At this point, it's almost all essentially either Lancaster or Palmdale.

[apple92680]

Originally Posted by Pro1000

That's an Ikea distribution center/warehouse.


I'm familiar with that area since I've been driving back and forth from LA to Fresno for most of my adult life. Will be interesting to see housing go up in that area and I've always wondered was that up next on the docket for the area. There is a Bakersfield city bus that goes out there and back. Not sure how many times it makes the trip out there. Probably 3-4 times a day at at least. I also thought the Lebec pitstop area off the 5 and Mountain Park Rd would get some housing one day. That's like 45 miles outside of Santa Clarita

It's supposed to. That's the "Tejon Mountain Ranch" portion of the development, basically in Lebec. The "Centennial" portion of the development is on the eastern side of the mountain in the far-west Antelope Valley. That area is only actually about 30 miles north of Santa Clarita.

Interestingly, it would make the Old Ridge Route from Castaic to Gorman a potentially viable route again.

[jcp123]

I always thought that given the outlets and activity there, this would be kind of the next place to grow some housing. I have slept many a night at the Petro and TA there and it always felt like it should be more than a veritable pit stop. Helps that it’s also go a lot of room not being used for farming up on that slope. I honestly expected this to have sprouted years ago, especially given the general shortage of housing in CA.

[NORTY FLATZ]

Originally Posted by apple92680

It's supposed to. That's the "Tejon Mountain Ranch" portion of the development, basically in Lebec. The "Centennial" portion of the development is on the eastern side of the mountain in the far-west Antelope Valley. That area is only actually about 30 miles north of Santa Clarita.

I was driving a truck (Freightliner Cascadia) from the Bay area to San Diego and had a "swollen air line on my trailer." CHP wouldn't let me go until it was fixed, at the Lebec scales. So, I spent the night in the parking lot. It was a nice/warm late May evening. I hop out to stretch to my legs and I hear "crunch, crunch" with every step I take. It seems spiders come out at night and stay on the sun warmed asphalt. I must have stepped on 30 of 'em, in 5 steps. I got my flashlight and it looked like the light shown on the wall at Indiana Jones' Jeep ride at Disneyland! Everywhere, I shown the light, there were tons of spiders, crawling over each other. I was in the middle of 4 acres of asphalt. I was almost the ONLY truck there. Imagine, 4 acres of spiders! So many that they crawled over each other!
Anyway, I got my air-line replaced, and was on my way the next day. That's the only thing I remember about Lebec, is all those spiders!

[apple92680]

Originally Posted by NORTY FLATZ

I was driving a truck (Freightliner Cascadia) from the Bay area to San Diego and had a "swollen air line on my trailer." CHP wouldn't let me go until it was fixed, at the Lebec scales. So, I spent the night in the parking lot. It was a nice/warm late May evening. I hop out to stretch to my legs and I hear "crunch, crunch" with every step I take. It seems spiders come out at night and stay on the sun warmed asphalt. I must have stepped on 30 of 'em, in 5 steps. I got my flashlight and it looked like the light shown on the wall at Indiana Jones' Jeep ride at Disneyland! Everywhere, I shown the light, there were tons of spiders, crawling over each other. I was in the middle of 4 acres of asphalt. I was almost the ONLY truck there. Imagine, 4 acres of spiders! So many that they crawled over each other!
Anyway, I got my air-line replaced, and was on my way the next day. That's the only thing I remember about Lebec, is all those spiders!

Well, that definitely won't be a huge selling point when the time comes!

[Moddedintegra56]

i could see Tejon Ranch area similar to Gilroy, CA. Gilroy had a nice outlet and really all there was back in the 90s and 30 minutes away from the major city of SJ.

There is certainly potential if more gets built around the outlet including actual housing. Especially with being able to work from home, and if homes built offer big square footage for a value price, and new schools and more nice and shiny new things, it will be attractive for families.

But at the same time could be a bust. They start building single family homes, then possibly nothing else. Job stability among those WFH must also be strong as there is nothing around there except lower end positions in distribution warehouses which even at that is only Ikea and 1 or 2 others. Going over to SAnta Clarita would probably be the furthest commute for work one could endure on a daily basis (not including bako)

[BRinSM]

Originally Posted by Moddedintegra56

i could see Tejon Ranch area similar to Gilroy, CA. Gilroy had a nice outlet and really all there was back in the 90s and 30 minutes away from the major city of SJ.

There is certainly potential if more gets built around the outlet including actual housing. Especially with being able to work from home, and if homes built offer big square footage for a value price, and new schools and more nice and shiny new things, it will be attractive for families.

But at the same time could be a bust. They start building single family homes, then possibly nothing else. Job stability among those WFH must also be strong as there is nothing around there except lower end positions in distribution warehouses which even at that is only Ikea and 1 or 2 others. Going over to SAnta Clarita would probably be the furthest commute for work one could endure on a daily basis (not including bako)

Gilroy is much closer to SJ than Tejon is to LA, with no mountain ranges to cross. There's also a train from Gilroy to SJ and points further north.

Sure, CA needs more affordable housing, but it also has to be somewhat close to where people want to live. Unless Tejon becomes a magnet for remote workers (), I can't imagine this taking off. I don't see the attraction personally considering the terrible air quality and the fact that there other new-ish, lower price communities much closer to more populated metros and interesting destinations. Having said that, perhaps the area could become a retirement community similar to Sun Lakes out near Palm Springs. I would imagine it would be much easier to grow a community around a concentration of seniors and the associated needs of those folks. Throw in a casino and now we've got a destination with (hopefully) some semblance of a sustainable economy.