CARMEL VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
Rancho San Carlos
Advising the heirs to an extraordinary 20,000-acre ranch - one of the largest private landholdings in coastal California - who were seeking its disposition while preserving their long-term legacy of land stewardship.
CARMEL VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
Rancho San Carlos
Advising the heirs to an extraordinary 20,000-acre ranch - one of the largest private landholdings in coastal California - who were seeking its disposition while preserving their long-term legacy of land stewardship.
“The 20,000-acre coastal California landscape at Rancho San Carlos was transformed into the Santa Lucia Preserve.”
RANCHO SAN CARLOS, CARMEL VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
Strategies:
- Identify areas of high ecological value for preservation as a basis for positioning the land in this high-end market.
- Prepare a master plan that creates a new model of limited, high-quality development that permanently protects this one-of-a-kind natural setting.
- Secure flexible entitlements with the County to ensure future development rights.
- Identify potential buyers/developers who understand the conservation-based development concept.
Outcomes:
- The timely disposition of the property to a respected and successful national land development entity.
- Land value optimized through the sensitive, ecological development strategy, which led to the rapid sell-out of the land.
- Creation of the Santa Lucia Preserve which insured the family legacy by protecting 18,000 of 20,000 acres in perpetuity.