Torie
Moderators
Atlas Legend
Posts: 46,101
Political Matrix
E: -3.48, S: -4.70
|
 |
« on: February 03, 2016, 11:03:33 AM » |
|
One of the first tracts down in what is now Laguna Niguel, was built in the 1970's as housing for workers for the huge new Rockwell plant being built, to fabricate cathode tubes. But then the transistor was invented, and the plant was never used, and was left empty, until the government bought it to store IRS and other records, now known as the Chet Holifield building, aka the "Ziggurat."
The beauty of the place, with its hills, and the generation of high income jobs in the Irvine-Newport Beach area, then generated the construction of higher income housing starting in the 1980's, along with the flat areas in north Orange County by the end of the 1980's having been largely built out.
|
