Pardee Homes is a residential home building company founded in 1921 which currently builds new homes and planned communities in Southern California and the Las Vegas, Nevada, metro region. The company was founded by George Pardee Sr, who was joined by his three sons, George M. Pardee Jr, Hoyt Pardee, and J. Douglas Pardee, in the Los Angeles housing boom after World War II. They began building in southern Nevada in 1952, selling affordable homes to veterans for $1.00 down. The homes in the first Las Vegas development were sold out in the opening weekend. Pardee became a wholly owned

subsidiary A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company or holding company. Two or more subsidiaries that either belong to the same parent company or having a s ...

of Weyerhaeuser Corporation in 1969, one of 5 such Weyerhaeuser companies under the

WRECO Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Company (WRECO) was a home construction and real-estate developer. WRECO was formed in 1969 as a subsidiary of Weyerhaeuser. It constructed homes under the names Quadrant Homes (greater Seattle and Puget Sound area), ...

division. On July 8, 2014, WRECO merged with TRI Pointe Homes now called the TRI Pointe Group, Inc. The Pardee Homes

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is located in

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. Other offices include San Diego, CA, Corona, CA,

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, and Las Vegas, Nevada. The company is currently developing new housing tracts throughout Southern California, including San Diego, with North County,

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, and Santee, California as well as in the

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, including Lake Elsinore, French Valley, California and Beaumont and in north

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in Santa Clarita, along with Southern Nevada including Las Vegas,

North Las Vegas North Las Vegas is a suburban city in Clark County, Nevada, United States, in the Las Vegas Valley. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 216,961, with an estimated population of 251,974 in 2019. The city was incorporated on May 1, 19 ...

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, and Summerlin. Pardee Homes began building energy-efficient, green homes in 1998 and introduced LivingSmart, a green building program, in 2001. Pardee Homes received the California Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA) in 2005, for its sustainable practices. In 2006, Energy Star Partner of the Year for Sustained Excellence - United States Environmental Protection Agency In May 2011, Pardee Homes became California's first production homebuilder to commit to getting an entire community of homes certified to the National Green Building Standard (NGBS) by the NAHB Research Center, and internationally recognized, independent third party. Pardee's new LivingSmart Homes in Santa Clarita's Fair Oaks Ranch, will all be built to the Gold-level criteria of the NGBS, inspected at least twice by an accredited green verifier, and Green Certified by the NAHB Research Center. In 2013, Certified Green Professional and Pardee Homes VP of Marketing Joyce Mason was one of 15 judges in China's inaugural Solar Decathlon, a joint effort of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and China's National Administration of Energy. Organized by Peking University and staged in Datong in Shanxi Province, the Decathlon's Solar Village showcased 20 homes created by college and university student teams who represented 35 nationalities in countries from six continents. In April 2017, Pardee Homes’ Las Vegas Division received four Silver Nugget Awards from the Southern Nevada Home Builders Association.Silver Nugget Awards - Winner in four categories
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TRI Pointe Homes
Construction and civil engineering companies of the United States Home builders Companies based in Pasadena, California American companies established in 1921 Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1921 1921 establishments in California Weyerhaeuser