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MLS# 80773183

MLS ID: 80773183
Price: $149,000
Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 1
Square Foot: 628
City: Watsonville

MLS# 80811095

MLS ID: 80811095
Price: $149,000
Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 1
Square Foot: 962
City: Watsonville

MLS# 80814606

MLS ID: 80814606
Price: $154,900
Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 1
Square Foot: 950
City: Watsonville

MLS# 80814723

MLS ID: 80814723
Price: $169,000
Bedrooms: 1 Bathrooms: 1
City: Watsonville

MLS# 80807665

MLS ID: 80807665
Price: $179,900
Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2
City: Watsonville
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Watsonville California

Known as the strawberry capitol of the world, Watsonville is located in Santa Cruz County. In 2005, the estimated population was almost 50,000 people. Watsonville also produces table mushrooms, and blackberries. Driscoll’s Strawberries, Granite Constructions, Well-Pict Berries, , and Martinelli’s of the famed Sparkling Apple Cider, all have headquarters in Watsonville. The county fair and strawberry festivals are just a few of the events that draw individuals to Watsonville. Watsonville is a full-service city with is own landfill, airport, water system, and wastewater treatment plant.

Today, almost 70% of the population is Hispanic. Ranking as the 21st largest Hispanic market in the United States, Watsonville is also host to a young demographic with almost 34% of its population under the age of 18.

In October of 1989, Watsonville had the devastating displeasure of being near the epicenter of the Loma Prieta earthquake. Causing over $35 million in damages; creating over 1,400 people unemployed immediately after; and destroying over 850 dwellings, and 100 commercial and industrial buildings, Watsonville has worked very hard to come back from that disaster. 

With almost 2000 new housing units in the last 5 years alone, Watsonville is by far one of the most affordable areas in Santa Cruz County for new home ownership. New commercial and public buildings have also been built since the earthquake. Watsonville is working toward a better city. Some of the projects include: the Porter Building, the Petroutsas Building, the Romo Building, the Henry J. Mello Performing Arts Center, the Beach Street Parking Garage, the Gene Hoularis and Waldo Rodriguez Youth Center, La Posada multi-family residential project, the Watsonville Discount Mall, and St. Patrick’s Church just to name a few.

With another look towards the future, Watsonville is home to the development called Vista Montaña. Completed in 2005, California’s largest Zero Energy Home community is designed to use almost zero net electricity over a course of a year. These homes harvest sun to generate electricity. With 257 solar-powered single family homes, as well as town homes, the development also features a 14-acre park and elementary school. Another spectacular detail of this expansion of homes is the fact that at least 25% of the homes were priced below market value and therefore allowed people who qualify for special HUD mortgages to purchase a dwelling and live in the community.

Although Watsonville is shifting towards becoming a suburb of Santa Cruz, rather than the agricultural town of its roots, the Vista Montaña subdivision attracts first-time and move-up buyers who might be priced out of Santa Cruz proper, but have that “earth-friendly” attitude typical of people in Santa Cruz. While these environ-friendly attributes attract many, a lot of buyers may not even be aware of the solar and energy efficient domiciles they have come upon. These homes come in three, four- or five bedrooms, with 10 different layouts, and 2-car garages. The builder, Clarum Homes, is committed to building green homes and they combine state-of-the-art energy efficiency and renewable energy with environmentally sustainable materials. Some of the home features are: recycled decking material, engineered lumber, and water saving landscaping and plumbing. Buyers may also choose for an extra fee to add: bamboo flooring, low-VOC paint, recycled-content carpet, and cork flooring.

Another example of Watsonville’s obligation to the natural environment is the habitat areas that sustain the endangered species called Santa Cruz Tarweed on the California coastal lowland ecosystem. Due to the population growth since 1980, Watsonville has had to prepare a number of Environmental Impact Reports, which allowed certain lands of the city to be removed from productive natural territory. Most of the coastal terrain adjacent to Watsonville is part of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, a designation proposed by former Assemblyman Leon Panetta. As you head away from the coast, the locale features the southern end of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
As stated above, Watsonville’s roots are in agricultural history. Like the other parts of Santa Cruz, Watsonville was first inhabited thousands of years ago by Native American Indians, these being the Costanoans, a hunter-gatherer tribe. In the mid 1840’s, many European expeditions were made to Watsonville, and by 1847, 40 persons lay claim to ranch lands where large herds of cattle grazed. However, it was not until the gold rush to the Sierra Mountains, when many changes occurred. Land was plentiful and inexpensive, and large scale farming and ranching was easy to do. In March of 1868, Watsonville was incorporated, and came under a city charter in 1903. The name, Watsonville, was the derivative of Judge John Watson, who came into the valley in 1851. Watson later moved to Nevada in 1861 and died in 1882. Growth was assured after the Southern Pacific Railroad was linked to Watsonville via the Santa Clara Valley in 1871. Schools, newspapers, churches, libraries, and major businesses also sprouted up as telegraph and electrical lines worked their way to the Pajaro Valtey.

Today, in keeping with its past, Watsonville is known for its agriculture, as well as for tourism and service oriented businesses. The ethnic diversity, light industry and manufacturing also have opened up Watsonville to many newcomers. Watsonville is not only rich in its past, but the future of Watsonville looks amazing via all the technological advances existing and sure to come in the future.
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