Newhall Land is a premier community planner in north Los Angeles County. Its primary activities are planning the communities of Valencia and Newhall Ranch, which together form one of the nation’s most valuable landholdings, just 30 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. Today, Valencia is a thriving community of business owners and homeowners alike that offers a way of life that is simply unmatched elsewhere. It’s 15.000 acres is home to over 60,000 jobs, 20,000 homes, 30 miles of paths called paseos, a thriving regional shopping mall, award winning schools and abundant parks and open space. Newhall Land’s next masterplanned community is Newhall Ranch, a 12,000-acre community directly adjacent to Valencia and approved for over 20,000 homes, 20,000 jobs and ten square miles of open space (more than 50 percent of its total area). An integral part of the Santa Clarita Valley’s growth and vitality, the story of Newhall Land reaches back 130 years, when pioneer Henry Mayo Newhall purchased Rancho San Francisco – a 48,000 acre property rich with surrounding natural beauty. Since the land’s acquisition in 1875, the company has kept a single promise at its core: to maintain the utmost respect for the land it stewards. That promise has stood the test of time. Whether home to the Newhall family’s crops, orchards and ranching as it was in the early years, or later as home to Valencia families seeking a wonderful place to put down roots or businesses seeking to prosper, Henry Mayo Newhall’s prized rancho has always remained an enviable place to live and work.