‘Transforming the Irvine Ranch’ shares how 93,000 acres of agriculture and ranch land became the largest master-planned community in the U.S.
C. Michael Stockstill used to tell his friend and former Irvine Company colleague H. Pike Oliver that someday he would write a book about the Irvine Ranch.As the Covid-19 pandemic upended everyday life, Stockstill who goes by “Mike” emailed “Pike” a proposal: “Remember that book that I was going to work on? How would you like to be a co-author?”
Stockstill and Oliver overlay the story with the history of the pioneering Irvine family, most notably the heiress Joan Irvine Smith, great-granddaughter of Irvine Ranch founder James Irvine and granddaughter of the James Irvine Foundation founder James Irvine II. She“I’ve described it to people as almost Shakespearean,” said Stockstill, who spent 13 years in public relations at the Irvine Co. beginning in 1978. “It’s full of very vibrant people; triumph; tragedy.
Q: Were there any surprising tidbits you learned while researching the book that you didn’t know before?When I was at the Irvine Co., and you asked around about the James Irvine Foundation, the typical response was, ‘Oh, it was a bunch of JI’s old cronies from Orange County and San Francisco.’ It was dismissive.
Hellis grew up three doors down from the Irvine family. He played with James Jr. and Myford; he was the general manager of the ranch for 35 years. But when Joan got on the board of directors , she turned on Hellis and exposed a land deal he was involved in. The more you learn about it, it probably was not unusual given how James Irvine did business. But rather than fight as McLaren did for the next 20 years, Hellis decided he’d had enough .
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