Discovery Park at Irvine Spectrum District
Locating homes near jobs for young professionals
Discovery Park is designed to meet the needs of recent grads and young professionals who prefer to live within walking or biking distance of major employers in Irvine Spectrum District, the city’s economic core with more than 100,000 jobs. Its location adjacent to Innovation Office Park creates great synergies for live-work-play lifestyles.
The community’s name is derived from its centerpiece 3-acre park, which will include active and passive areas open to the public. The plans include new connections to Irvine’s vast trail system, as well as statement landscaping with hundreds of mature trees, including 100-year-old olives, pines and palms.
Sure to be a popular amenity, the community will include a 5,000-square-foot restaurant – a nice place for locals and their guests to gather. Just the kind of place for a local entrepreneur to open a new eatery.
Key Facts
- Currently a vacant 30-acre site
- 1,800 apartment units in four buildings
- Two resort-style pools
- Co-working space with potential community rooms
- 3-acre active park open to the public
- Hundreds of mature trees, including olives, pines, palms
- Welcoming dog park
- Kids play area
- Grand terrace overlooking park
- Restaurant
Homes Near Jobs MOU
Discovery Park is part of the innovative “Homes Near Jobs” Master Plan approved by the City of Irvine in 2023. The plan contemplates seven master planned communities and ensures homes for professionals near jobs and outside villages; it generates up to $100 million for local priorities, like expanded open spaces, new trails, road improvements and public safety, and expands affordability for nurses, teachers and young professionals.