Homes sold by Meena in Castro Valley Five Canyons, Palomares Hills
About Castro Valley, CA
Homes for Sale in Castro Valley Five Canyons Palomares Hills. Castro Valley is very centrally located with easy access to the BART Station, major highways 580, 880, 92 and Mission Blvd. The Five Canyons and Palomares Hills schools are excellent. Castro Valley Blvd runs through the entire City and features some very good restaurants, grocery stores, pharmacies and shopping.
Castro Valley is located in the Bay Area of California. Nestled in a quiet valley surrounded by tree covered rolling hills, Castro Valley residents, businesses, and visitors enjoy a rural atmosphere at the hub of California’s cultural, economical and recreational heartland. Castro Valley boasts such natural amenities as an extensively developed park system, swimming lagoon, 315 acre lake, and a beautiful 18 hole golf course. About the history of Castro Valley: As many as 30 or 40 Ohlone native villages once surrounded the area. In 1797 Missionaries arrived and in 1838, Don Castro of the Mexican military acquired Rancho San Lorenzo. The Castro Valley area was part of this ranch. In 1864, Castro lost the land to gambling and other debts. By 1852, the Castro Valley area became populated by 49er settlers. By 1920, Castro Valley was a full blown town with roughly 370 families living off chicken farming. Schools:
Schools are top notch and award winning. In Castro Valley, elementary schools run from K-5th grade, middle school/junior high from 6th-8th and high school 9th-12th.
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The Five Canyons, Castro Valley is comprised of 913 homes located in the rolling hills of Castro Valley built by Centex. This neighborhood has Condominiums, townhouses and Single Family Homes and it offers miles of hiking trails maintained by East Bay Regional Park District and horse trails that lead through the beautiful forests and countryside. Feature amenities include a heated olympic size swimming pool, hot tub, wading pool, community clubhouse, recreational vehicle parking spaces, three tennis courts and a basketball court. The public school for the Five Canyons neighborhood is Independent Elementary School. Five Canyons has been professionally managed by Walsh Property Management since 1998.
Another neighborhood in Castro Valley with very good schools is Palomares Hills. This area comprises of Townhouses, Duet homes and Single family homes built by Shapel. Jensen Elementary school is the public school within the Palomares Hills community.
Castro Valley remains a community that keeps a foot in its history while making the most of the present. Ranches in the canyons compliment the pastoral feel of its many neighborhoods and the community comes alive for its annual rodeo. This is also a get-out-and-do-it community, making the most of its many parks and trails, and also congregating as a community for special occasions in the newly redesigned downtown. Home to one of the area’s premier school districts, Castro Valley heavily supports education and the arts
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