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304 Rockefeller
$1,450,000
Overview
About Irvine Business Complex
The Irvine Business Complex is a business district that people now live in, and reading it as a village will get a buyer into trouble. The City publishes it as Planning Area 36, 2,771 acres on the southwestern edge of Irvine with John Wayne Airport forming the northwestern boundary and San Diego Creek the southeastern, and the General Plan calls it the largest business complex in the Orange County region, Irvine's largest job center, holding roughly 1.3 million square feet of retail services. The General Plan's own acreage table files all 2,764 of those acres as Urban Industrial and not one acre in any residential category. Yet the City's address layer records 15,721 active residential addresses inside the line. Every one of those homes arrived through the Irvine Business Complex Residential Mixed-Use Overlay District adopted in 2010, under which the units are not tied to specific parcels at all: the City keeps a running count and developers draw against it first come, first served until the allocation is used up.
Two things a buyer expects from an Irvine village are simply absent. There is no city park inside the boundary; all seven city parks near enough to touch its bounding box measure zero percent inside, so recreation here is association common area and private facilities. And there is no master association: the City records 13 separate associations across 118.2 acres, 4.3 percent of the district, with no association at all over the remaining 95.7 percent, and only Central Park West carries a second tier beneath it, with eight sub-associations named Astoria, Belvedere, Hudson, Lennox, Lexington, Rockefeller, Townes and Tribeca. The built form the General Plan describes stays fairly uniform, one and two story industrial buildings throughout alongside wrapped four story residential buildings whose units clad the outside of the parking structure, with setbacks of 20 to 40 feet measured from the curb. The district is also split across three unified school districts: Santa Ana Unified holds 58.1 percent of the area and 7,213 of the residential addresses, Irvine Unified 28.3 percent and 6,589, and Tustin Unified 13.5 percent and 1,919.
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History
How Irvine Business Complex was built
The district around the runway was drawn as the working half of a city that did not exist yet. When William Pereira and the Irvine Company's planners laid out Irvine in the 1960s around the new university campus, they set industrial ground beside the airport and called it the Irvine Industrial Complex West. It opened in the late 1960s and was intended solely as industrial and commercial land, a job base for the new city. The developer who gave it its texture was Donald Koll, who founded his construction firm in 1962. Koll is credited with pioneering the multi-tenant industrial business park, the low, flexible, many-doored building type that still covers most of this ground. With Aetna Life and Casualty he built the Airport Business Center between 1968 and 1978, 68 buildings and 1.2 million square feet on 75 acres, and his company still owns and manages it.
Nobody planned for anyone to live here. Manufacturing faded through the 1980s and 1990s, the technology sector took its place, the district was renamed the Irvine Business Complex, and the city began rewriting what could be built on it. Housing was first permitted here in 1992, and the permission was widened considerably in 2010 after a long public planning effort. That order of events explains the place as you find it today: apartment towers and podium condominiums standing among warehouses, hotels and office parks, under an approach path, on streets that were laid out for trucks rather than for strollers.
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By the Numbers
Irvine Business Complex by the numbers
87
Homes Sold in the Window
77
Condominiums Sold
0
Single Family Sold
10
Townhomes Sold
Real Estate
Market snapshot
Real estate snapshot
87 closed sales · 01/12/26 – 07/17/26
| Median sale price | $970,000 |
| Median price per sq ft | $699 |
| Median home size | 1,367 sq ft |
| Median days on market | 50 |
| Sale-to-list ratio | 94.5% |
| Price range | $528,000 – $2,625,000 |
| Year built | 1990 – 2024 |
Price range distribution
Share of closed sales by price band
Under $1M56.3%
$1M – $1.5M31.0%
$1.5M – $2M9.2%
$2M – $3M3.4%
$3M+0.0%
Our Sales
Our recent sales in Irvine Business Complex
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716 Rockefeller
$1,330,000
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2405 Watermarke Pl
$800,000
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2352 Watermarke Pl
$691,500
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49 Soho
$660,000
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577 Rockefeller
$610,000
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2440 Scholarship
$545,000
7 transactions of ours in this neighborhood, placed here by the City of Irvine address record rather than by zip code. The section renders only real transactions and does not pad to fill the row.
Lifestyle
The Irvine Business Complex lifestyle
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Schools
Schools serving Irvine Business Complex
The district boundary splits the Irvine Business Complex, and that is the fact buyers here most often have wrong. Tested against the US Census Bureau's published unified school district boundaries, the 15,721 active residential address points the City of Irvine records inside this boundary divide across three districts. Santa Ana Unified holds the largest share at 1,610.9 acres and 7,213 of those addresses, and that share is the residential core: Central Park West, Watermarke, Avenue One, Park Place, Scholarship and the Rockefeller and Soho streets. Irvine Unified holds 785.2 acres and 6,589 addresses on the Main Street, Kelvin, Sullivan, Murphy and Derian side. Tustin Unified holds the remaining 374.9 acres and 1,919 addresses along Alton Parkway, Synergy, Gates, Steely, Millikan and Unity. So the three campuses below are the ones that serve the homes people actually buy here. Santa Ana Unified's own address locator was run against 67 addresses on 23 streets on its side of the boundary on 12 August 2026, and again against 11 points in the residential core on 13 August 2026. Every run returned Monroe Elementary School at 417 E. Central Ave. for grades K through 5, McFadden Institute of Technology at 2701 S. Raitt St. for grades 6 through 8, and Century High School at 1401 S. Grand Ave. for grades 9 through 12, all in the city of Santa Ana. All seven of our transactions in the Irvine Business Complex sit on the Santa Ana Unified side and returned that same set. McFadden runs kindergarten through grade 8 on a single campus, and these addresses are assigned to it for grades 6 through 8. Irvine Unified's locator returns Culverdale or Westpark for grades K through 6, South Lake Middle School for grades 7 and 8 and University High School for grades 9 through 12 on its own side, and it returns nothing at all for the Central Park West and Watermarke addresses, which is that district recording them as outside its territory. Assignment is set by address and it changes, so confirm a specific address with the district that holds it before it matters to a decision.
88.1% graduation rate
Century High School
9-12 · 1,519 students
9-12 · 1,519 students
27% ELA · 20% math
McFadden Institute of Technology
K-8 · 1,074 students
K-8 · 1,074 students
20% ELA · 20% math
Monroe Elementary School
K-5 · 217 students
K-5 · 217 students
FAQs
Common questions about Irvine Business Complex
What does a home in the Irvine Business Complex sell for?
The median was $970,000 across 87 closed sales between 12 January and 17 July 2026, at a median $699 a square foot on a median closed size of 1,367 square feet. Closings ran from $528,000 to $2,625,000. Forty-nine landed under $1,000,000 and 27 between $1 million and $1.5 million, with eight between $1.5 million and $2 million and three above $2 million. That band is far wider than the median suggests, because a studio in a high rise and a three bedroom townhome both sit inside it. Compare a specific home against closings in its own building or tract before the median is worth anything. Of those 87 closings, 77 were condominiums and 10 were townhomes, and not one single family home closed in the window, so the median describes attached product across a very wide band and a comparison here has to be made inside a single building or tract before it means anything.
Which school district serves the Irvine Business Complex?
Three of them, and which one applies is decided by the address rather than by the city on the mail. Measured against the Census Bureau's published district boundaries, Santa Ana Unified covers 1,610.9 acres of this boundary and 7,213 of its 15,721 residential addresses, including Central Park West, Watermarke, Avenue One, Park Place and Scholarship. Irvine Unified covers 785.2 acres and 6,589 addresses. Tustin Unified covers 374.9 acres and 1,919. Santa Ana Unified's own locator returns Monroe Elementary for grades K through 5, McFadden Institute of Technology TK-8 for grades 6 through 8 and Century High School for grades 9 through 12 for every one of the 67 addresses tested on its side, all three campuses in Santa Ana. Irvine Unified's locator returns nothing for those same addresses, which is that district recording them as outside its boundary. Confirm a specific address with the district before it matters to a decision.
How close is John Wayne Airport, and how does the City handle it?
The General Plan states that the airport's influence in the City primarily extends over parts of the IBC, and the City wrote its response into the zoning rather than leaving it to the market. The Irvine Business Complex Residential Mixed-Use Overlay District carries development standards that set maximum noise levels and maximum building heights, require notification of residents through deed and tenant disclosures of the airport proximity, and require compliance with obstruction lighting and marking criteria. Building height in the mixed-use, multi-use and residential IBC districts is set by FAA Part 77 rather than by a figure in the code. The county's Airport Environs Land Use Plan, last amended 17 April 2008, governs the same ground. The practical effect is that a purchase here comes with an airport disclosure the City itself requires, and it is a document to read closely rather than a formality.
How much more housing can be built here?
A great deal, and the City has already adopted the plan for it. General Plan Table A-1 caps Planning Area 36 at 15,000 dwelling units with 2,038 additive units on top, and the Land Use Element states nearly all of the 15,000 are entitled with over half built. The 2045 General Plan then adds a Residential and Residential Mixed-Use Overlay over the wider area that increases the permitted count by another 15,000 units, allowing a maximum of 30,000 in the IBC. The units are not attached to parcels: the City keeps a running count and developers draw on it first come, first served until the allocation runs out. So a view or a low building next door is not protected by the neighboring parcel's zoning, and anyone buying for a view should ask the City what is entitled around that address.
Are there parks here?
Not city parks. The City of Irvine parks layer records no park polygon inside this boundary, and the seven city parks close enough to touch its bounding box all measure zero percent inside. Open space here is association common area and private recreation instead, and the City's own remarks field for Central Park West Assn. records that the master association maintains the park and the sidewalk to the street. None of the 13 associations publishes an amenity list, so nothing about pools, clubhouses or facilities is written on this page. What a specific address gets access to is set by that association's governing documents, which come through escrow.