Your guide to Rancho Peñasquitos: Things to do, restaurants, shopping
The Adobe Ranch House in the Penasquitos Reserve is San Diego's second-oldest standing residence. History: Rancho Peñasquitos is part of San Diego'...
The Adobe Ranch House in the Penasquitos Reserve is San Diego's second-oldest standing residence. History: Rancho Peñasquitos is part of San Diego's first Mexican land grant, a gift in 1823 to Francisco Maria Ruiz, military commander of San Diego. In 1962, developer Irvin J. Kahn purchased about 14,000 acres – the largest land purchase of its day, for an estimated $15 million — with plans to create a city for 50,000. By 1964, with most of the land annexed by the city of San Diego, Kahn planned his first development, Leisure Life Village, a modular complex with all-metal framing seen as a breakthrough in residential construction.