EastLake California
In the early years of
San Diego and
Chula Vista there was vast acreage of San Diego County that was an open range sprinkled with roaming cattle. Rancho Janal was an early ranch in San Diego County east of Chula Vista. It was comprised of 4,436 acres of ranch land. Janal is an Indian word meaning "spongy ground" - because of underground streams that covered the land. The old Rancho Janal Ranch is now the 3,200-acre master-planned community of EastLake.
In the year 1846 after the Mexican-American War that once and for all decided the ownership of California to be part of the United States of America, Chula Vista area ranch owners hat to prove that they owned the land that they ranched on. The land grants from Mexico were not a 100% guarantee that the United States would recognize them as the rightful owners. In 1872 Don Jose Guadalupe Estudillo received title to the Janal land grant.
Rancho Janal became the site for both the upper and lower Otay Dams and Reservoir, built for the Southern California Water Company in 1900 and 1901. The dams were built by E.S. Babcock, who also built the Hotel del Coronado in 1888. Henry G. Fenton, a subcontractor of Babcock, bought Janal in 1926 and farmed its 3,000 acres, growing lima beans and barley. "During the Great Depression, when dad was growing lima beans on the ranch, he would turn the fields over to the needy, once the harvest had been completed," Fenton's daughter, Emily remembers. "There still were thousands of beans lying on the ground, and people would flock to the ranch by the hundreds to scoop them up into sacks to take home."
When Fenton died in 1951, he left the ranch to Emily, who then married Navy Rear Admiral Louis H. Hunte. Emily later married Dean Black. She attended the groundbreaking ceremonies for EastLake with her son, Henry Hunte, " where we get the name Hunte Parkway" became president of Western Salt Company, the company founded by Fenton. "Western Salt has had a long-time desire to see the property developed into a quality planned community - one that my grandfather would have been proud of. The EastLake Company is accomplishing that goal," Hunte said. The EastLake Company is now sole owner of the land.The EastLake Company Timeline from www.EastLake.net
The community master-plan creation began in 1979.
Phase I of EastLake I general plan/zoning was approved in 1982.
Groundbreaking for
EastLake Hills and
EastLake Shores was held March 1985.
EastLake community grand opening was held April 1986.
First residents moved in July 1986.
First industrial building occupancy, June 1987.
Groundbreaking for EastLake Greens was held in Fall 1989.
Final residential products sold in EastLake Hills and EastLake Shores, June 1990.
Parcels were delivered to first phase builders in
EastLake Greens, June 1990.
Groundbreaking for Phase I of the ARCO Olympic Training Center was held June 1990.
EastLake Greens neighborhood grand opening was held Feb. 1991.
EastLake Country Club opened for public play on June 22, 1991.
First residents moved into EastLake Greens in July 1991.
EastLake High School opened on September 8, 1992.
Dual use library with the City of Chula Vista public library system and EastLake High School opened to the public on August 14, 1993.
Chula Vista Community Park in EastLake Greens, opened on July 1, 1994.
Construction started on EastLake's second elementary school in EastLake Greens on October 24, 1994.
Construction on EastLake Village Center Began on November 28, 1994.
Athletes moved into the ARCO Olympic Training Center, April 1995.
ARCO Olympic Training Center officially opens, June 10, 1995.
Ruth Chapman Center for the Performing Arts at EastLake High School EastLake High School 2005 Graduation opened in June 1995.
EastLake Educational Foundation established June 1995.
Students moved into Olympicview Elementary, EastLake's second elementary school on October 18, 1995.
The 1,000th home closed escrow in the EastLake Greens project in October 1995.
Dolphin Beach broke ground on December 1, 1996.
EastLake Village Center construction completed in January 1997.
Dolphin Beach grand opening on June 7, 1997.
Ground breaking of Olympic Parkway November 1998.
Ground breaking for EastLake's third elementary school, Arroyo Vista Elementary School in EastLake Trails May, 1999.
First residents move into
EastLake Trails November 1999.
Creekside Park grand opening, March 2000.
Students move into Arroyo Vista Elementary, July 2000.
Eastlake Trails North and
The Woods by Eastlake open for sales July 2002 with 1rst residents in Jan 03.
First Sales in
EastLake Vistas September 2002.
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