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Town Center’s popular dining and retail options. Abundant open space and parklands will be close-by for residents, who will be just steps from the Jeffrey Open Space Trail.

Stonegate homeowners will have numerous choices for spending time outdoors enjoying quality recreation. Four new Village parks that are slated to open this spring will include Stonegate Park, complete with a softball/youth baseball with soccer overlay, full basketball courts,

tennis courts, sand volleyball, tot lot, a shade structure, barbecues and picnic tables. Hummingbird and Mockingbird Parks will have swimming pools and many other recreational amenities, while Meadowlark Park will be the perfect place for a family picnic or barbecue.

Award-winning Irvine Unified schools will make the Village of Stonegate a smart decision. The latest ranking by the Orange County Register listed all five of Irvine’s middle schools among the top 10 for 2011, including Sierra Vista Middle School, a California Distinguished School. Young residents can also walk to the new state-of-the-art Stonegate Elementary

School, a California Distinguished School, where one of the teachers was recently honored with the prestigious ‘Teacher of the Year’ Award by the IUSD; students will also attend Northwood High School.

To visit The Irvine Pacific Collection’s Sales Galleries from the 405 or 5 freeways, exit Sand Canyon Avenue and head east. Turn left at Irvine Boulevard, right on Groveland and follow the signs. The Sales Galleries are open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Mondays open at 1 p.m.).

For more details, please visit www.VillagesofIrvine.com or www.IrvinePacific.com. Homeshoppers can

also contact a Villages of Irvine New Home Consultant at 888.820.0721.

Irvine Pacific, an affiliate of the Irvine Company, sets a high standard for excellence. As homebuilders, we respond to your goals and have chosen to build from experience to deliver solutions homeshoppers will love today and for years to come. We have chosen to serve customers’ needs in new and better ways and are constantly presenting opportunities to exceed their expectations by creating neighborhoods in locations that enrich their lives so one’s home value encompasses surroundings that are second to none in Orange County.