Kings County’s Quay Valley moves closer to reality

Valerie Shelton – STAFF WRITER

December 16, 2016

Final plans for Quay Valley, an ambitious 21^st century town complete with environmentally

sustainable homes, businesses and schools,have been submitted to Kings County

planning officials.

After nearly 10 years of planning and a brief hiatus due to the recession, Quay Hays,

the CEO of GROW Holdings, the developer of Quay Valley, says the step is a milestone

on the journey to creating the modern community that he and several planners have

envisioned for so long.

“We have a very large planning team that has been working on this for a number of

years,” Hays said. “We made sure we had the top planners in the state and assembled a team

of people who specialize in doing large-scale projects.”

Hays anticipates a scoping meeting with the county will take place in January 2017. At

that meeting, Kings County staff is expected to issue a Notice of Preparation, which will

officially launch the environmental review process required under CEQA.

If everything goes according to plan, Hays said the project should break ground

by 2018, with homes in the first phase of the development welcoming tenants as soon as

2019.

“I think we’ll start moving dirt in 2018, and we can potentially begin turning the lights on

for some of the early homeowners and a large portion of the companies and businesses for

phase one by the end of 2019 or early 2020,”

Hays said. “We’ve been maintaining the land over the years and a lot of the stuff that

requires a long lead time is done.”

Located on 7,200 acres along Interstate 5, halfway between Los Angeles and San

Francisco, Quay Valley will feature 22,000 smart, green, highly designed homes and

20 million square feet of commercial and industrial space expected to create more than

30,000 new jobs.

Phase One of Quay Valley will include 4,210 homes, destination retail, three themed ecoresorts,

an adrenalin adventure sports park, cultural center and gardens, festival grounds,

a regional sports complex, winery and spa, gated attractions, and a Hyperloop test track.

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