Comstock's magazine 0520 - May 2020 | Page 92

CITY OF STOCKTON special promotional section Stockton Y OF biggest new project, Westlake Villages, is opening a new area near Village West Marina. “There’s a housing shortage, and our principal buyer is from Stock- ton, looking for a new place to live,” says Tom Doucette, president of FBC Homes, which is selling the first 73 of the development’s expected 1,900 additional homes. STOCK New home construction can be found in many parts of the city. That includes small projects that fill in established neighborhoods, such as FCB Homes’ nine homes at Black Hawk and KB Home’s 122 homes at Montevella, both in North Stockton, and KB’s 91 homes in Belluno, near the downtown waterfront. The city’s River Islands is an almost 5,000-acre master-planned community that began construction in 2014. Sited along the banks of the San Joaquin River, the community has 1,500 homes with plans for 9,500 more, including some lakeside, built over 12 neigh- borhoods by seven homebuilders. “We are very much a part of Lathrop, which provides all of our utility, planning and permitting services,” says Susan Dell’Osso, president of River Islands Development. TY PA R T N ER Adventist Health BUILDING HEALTH CARE CHOICES AND ACCESS A dventist Health now manages Dameron Hospital, expanding health care choices and access in the Stockton area. “We’re eager to build San Joaquin Manteca County health care services together,” says Bill Trezza, Turnleaf, opened in 2019, is an “age-qual- ified” housing development with 84 homesites in six neighborhoods developed by Anthem United. It includes a clubhouse, pool, yoga studio, and amphitheater. KB Homes is adding single- and two-story homes to an existing neighborhood at Haven Villas, and Manteca-based Raymus Homes is constructing 135 homes in the city’s Ole- ander Estates neighborhood. Dameron Hospital Board president. Dameron, a 202-bed medical center, chose Adventist Health because of a shared commitment to community and because Adventist Health brings the expertise and resources of a large health care system to Stockton. With many changes and challenges in health care, being connected to a system offers many advantages for a freestanding hospital like Dameron. Roseville-based Adventist Health operates 22 hospitals Mountain House and more than 280 medical offices in California, Oregon and Hawaii. With more than 20 years of hospital leadership experience, Daniel Wolcott serves as president of Dameron Hospital as well as Adventist Health Lodi Memorial. In addition to serving on boards of several local community organizations, he serves as founding president of the board of HealthForce Partners, which creates career pathway opportunities in San Joaquin County to prepare skilled workers for health care careers. “Adventist Health is honored to have been selected for this agreement,” says Wolcott. “Dameron has a heritage of health care excellence, and we look forward to building on that.” SPONSORED PROFILE 92 Tracy Hills is a 5,411-acre planned com- munity in the southwestern part of the city that will include 4,704 sites for single- and two-story homes and townhouses being built in phases by three homebuilders (Meritage Homes, Lennar and Shea Homes). The community plan includes 258 acres for commercial development and 59 acres for parks. Ellis is a gated community nearby being developed by Woodside Homes with plans for a commercial center and an aquatic park; sales are expected to begin this spring. Lathrop NI Tracy comstocksmag.com | May 2020 Adventist Health Lodi Memorial 975 S. Fairmont Ave. Lodi, CA 95240 209-334-3411 Dameron Hospital 525 Acacia St. Stockton, CA 95203 209-944-5550 AdventistHealth.org Fifteen miles east of Livermore, the exurb of Mountain House, a planned community, launched in 2001 during a real estate boom and was the epicenter of the region’s melt- down in 2008, when headlines noted that 90 percent of owners owed more than their homes were worth, and foreclosures soared. The community has rebounded with five homebuilders (Richmond American Homes, Shea Homes, Signature Homes, TRI Pointe Homes and Woodside Homes) offering homes in new developing neighborhoods. Bill Sessa is a Sacramento-based freelance writer.