Del Mar Heights-Based Developer Is Behind Building Boom Near Hemet

A land developer based in Del Mar Heights is fueling a building boom in southwest Riverside County that will lead to a new high school near Hemet, says the San Diego Daily Transcript.

Lansing Cos., Greg Lansing’s development firm with an office on 12770 High Bluff Drive south of Torrey Pines High School, has announced it acquired 1,300 lots on 475 acres known as the Villages of San Jacinto near Hemet from D.R. Horton Inc. of Dallas. 

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, the Transcript reported.

The Villages Of San Jacinto is described as a master-planned community of single-family residential neighborhoods, parks and “private recreation featuring a beach club with swim lagoon, lake, two neighborhood parks, paseos, and trails,” the company said on its website.

Besides a high school, it also would have commercial and mixed-use municipal/business park uses “as well as public and private infrastructure.”

Lansing’s Renewable Energy Division also says it is selling a 50-megawatt solar-power site near Mojave to the North American subsidiary of a multinational corporation it didn’t specify.