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Rossmoor is a gated community in Walnut Creek, California, with a population of about 9,200. It was one of the first "active adult" communities for residents 55 years or older in the San Francisco Bay Area. == History == In the 1930s, the shipping tycoon Stanley Dollar constructed an estate in Tice Creek Valley near Walnut Creek in Contra Costa County. The Dollars bred purebred Hereford cattle and raised show horses. Over the years they expanded the estate of to .〔(Dollar, Robert Stanley Sr., Residence - National Register of Historic Places )〕〔(R. Stanley Dollar Sr. Residence )〕 In 1960, R. Stanley Dollar Jr(the son of the shipping magnate) sold the family estate to Ross W. Cortese. Cortese owned a development company called Rossmoor Corporation. He had been active in Orange County and the unincorporated community there named Rossmoor was one of his projects. After finishing Rossmoor he started on a new idea of private gated retirement communities for active seniors called Leisure World, starting with the Seal Beach Leisure World in Seal Beach in 1960.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=The Revolution Comes to Rossmoor )〕 Leisure World promised low-cost housing, coupled with services appropriate to Cortese's view of retirement — golf courses, swimming pools, clubhouses, riding stables, transportation, medical services and a host of administrative employees to see that the residents did not have to bother themselves with house and yard maintenance, and even little things like waste collection, cable television service and watering the lawn. Cortese's plans were too ambitious and he lost control of Rossmoor in Walnut Creek almost immediately after ground was first broken. The name "Leisure World" is still used as a trademark by Cortese's family, but it has not been applied to Rossmoor in Walnut Creek for many years. Cortese's idea was popular though, and others carried out his scheme. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rossmoor, Walnut Creek, California」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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