There's Gold in Them Thar Hills - Know Thy Neighbor
Part II.
7/30/2000
The Pomona and Claremont McKenna Colleges have substantial land holdings in the foothills of Claremont with which to wheel and deal. According to deeds on record with the county tax assessor's office, as of January 2000, the two colleges hold 400+ acres in the foothill region. There were 3 additional foothill parcels with a sale price of 1.25M each that we were unable to locate on parcel maps. We're still looking. Follow the link below to see our table of local holdings with the locations of the land parcels.

Table of local college properties

Know Thy Neighbor - The Land Holdings of the Claremont Colleges.
7/26/2000
Surprised by college-owned foothill land sales/swaps and large scale college-adjacent developments that like a plague of Caterpillars, are eating their way across Claremont? Want to know what else the colleges own? So did we and with a little research we found out. A one and a half acre Malibu Beach property, 320 acres in Monterey county, 316 acres in Shasta County. The results will surprise you. Below we present a comprehensive breakdown of the land holdings of our resident colleges. From Shasta to San Diego the deeds fall where they may.

In Part One our focus is on Claremont's college-adjacent areas.

Scripps property - College Ave.

We’ll start our tour of local college properties with single-family dwellings, duplexes and apartments, once private homes, which have been purchased by the colleges.

Since the 1960’s, Claremont McKenna College has purchased the single-family dwellings and land to the south of their campus. These acquisitions span many city administrations and include dozens of single-family dwellings and apartments. In
fact pretty much the entire neighborhood from 1^st. to 6^th St., between Claremont Blvd. And Mills.  And CMC continues to absorb what it doesn’t already own. Here’s our breakdown of college-adjacent properties purchased by or given to the Claremont Colleges according to county tax assessor’s records as of January 2000, defined by deed as single-family dwelling, duplex or apartment. We’ll skip the sites that are obvious college property.

Arbol Verde - South of CMC.

 CMC purchased addresses 135, 139, 147, 247 and 205 Brooks in 1966. 340 N Mills in 1966. 221, 243, 285, 506 and 515 Brooks in 1967. 108, 114 and 564 N. Mills in 1969. 220 Brooks in 1970. 506 N. Mills in 1971. 606 Blanchard in 1972. 256 N. Mills in 1972. 124 N. Mills in 1974. 543 Brooks in 1974. 533 and 519 in 1975. 622 and 641 Blanchard in 1978. 310 N. Mills in 1981. 204, 236 and 250 N. Mills in 1982 (duplex). 526 in 1979. 520 in 1988. 555 Brooks in 1990. 218 N. Mills in 1995 and finally, 121 Brooks in 2000.  On 6^th St., CMC bought address 520 in 1960, 624 in 1966, 536 in 1967, 606 and 634 in 1968, 620 in 1970, 640 in 1975, 608 in 1981, 610 in 1980.  Slowly and methodically a neighborhood is absorbed.

College Avenue

Bordering the college on the west, College Avenue is a another popular real estate target. Pomona College owns 1237 N. College in 1974. Scripps owns the N. College addresses 1244 deeded in 1969, 1060 in 1984. 1030 and 1040 in 1985, 1050 in 1987, 1280 and 1254 in 1987 and 905 in 2000. The School of Theology owns 1006 N. College deeded in 1966.  Claremont University Center owns 740 N. College deeded in 1963, and 703 N. College, date unknown. CMC recently purchased the beautiful 739 N. College.


CMC property - 739 N. College.

On Harvard Ave. Scripps owns 1035 deeded in 1980.  Pitzer owns 739 deeded in 1972. Pomona College owns 730 deeded in 1976.

Pomona College owns 431 W. 6^th deeded in 1992 and 230 W. 7^th St. purchased in 1970.

Part Two of this series continues on Sunday with a look at the foothill land holdings of the Claremont Colleges.

Coming in August, The Land Holdings of the City of Claremont.