Glen Loma Ranch will add more than 1,600 new single-family residential homes by 2020.

By April 2015, contractors working between Santa Teresa Boulevard and the Uvas Creek Corridor are expected to complete the first phase of the largest development Gilroy has ever seen.
At its most recent meeting, city council unanimously approved a tentative map for build-out of the first five neighborhoods—comprised of 369 single-family lots—within the 1,643-home Glen Loma Ranch project.
The tentative map is the second-to-last hurdle in the development approval process before construction can begin and construction of the roadways within the first 45 acres of the entire 309-acre project is scheduled to begin as early as this summer. According to representatives for the developer, the Glen Loma Corporation, erection of the homes will likely follow in November.
Over the course of the past 15 years, engineers, architects, planners and others with the Filice-family owned corporation have been transforming the massive project from a concept to a reality in connection with city staff.
Now inching closer to that reality following city council approval on April 21, after an OK from the planning commission earlier this month, Tim Filice with the Glen Loma Corporation said he was grateful for the collaboration between private and public sectors.
“I’ve been active for about 35 years in real estate matters, and I’ve never seen a more positive process,” Filice said. “We have, more recently, been meeting weekly with staff, engineering and planning. This process has been marked by collaboration, cooperation, compromise and consensus all the way along.”
According to city staff, the 309-acre project will ultimately have 17 private streets, additional public streets, sidewalks, trails and access to both Ascension Solorsano Middle and Las Animas Elementary schools.
The Glen Loma Corporation will be footing the bill for the large-scale infrastructure projects, from street widening and traffic improvements to mitigation of impacts to nearby public schools. Mayor Don Gage says the larger developers will help pay for the creation of an additional fire station in the area to guard some of Gilroy’s newest family homes.
Back in council chambers April 21, Council Member Peter Arellano applauded the developers for their dedication over the better part of two decades in creating a project he said suits Gilroy.
“(The Glen Loma Corporation was) thinking about the people who are going to live there and they connected it with the city in terms of the trails,” Arellano said. “I’ve also been here almost since the beginning, and they have done a beautiful job in putting this together.”

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