A solution that completes the Ranch

What makes Rancho Santa Fe such an extraordinary place to call home? Certainly, its beautiful homes, natural landscapes and timeless character. Equally important are the places and institutions that bring people together.

Over generations, the Ranch has built an extraordinary foundation for community life: horse and hiking trails, a renowned golf course and club, a beautiful hotel, a village of restaurants and shops, churches, schools, youth sports and a senior center. Together, these amenities create the connections and traditions that make Rancho Santa Fe more than simply a beautiful place to live.

Yet one important piece is missing from the community: a senior living community. When longtime residents find maintaining a large home difficult or need additional support, no local senior living community allows them to remain in the Ranch. The senior center provides a place to gather and socialize, but not a place to live independently with services, transition to assisted living or receive specialized memory care as needs change. For many, this means a difficult choice: remain in a home that may no longer meet their needs or leave the community they’ve spent decades helpingbuild.

Silvergate Rancho Santa Fe offers a third choice: stay in the Ranch, in a home designed for the next chapter of life.

A community for every generation

Senior living should complement the surrounding community, not exist apart from it. Silvergate residents can continue attending church, enjoying local restaurants, supporting charities, participating in clubs and maintaining lifelong friendships. Their experience and involvement remain part of the Ranch’s civic and social fabric.

There is another benefit. When longtime residents transition from larger homes into senior living, those homes become available to new families who can raise children here, support local schools, volunteer and create memories of their own. One generation doesn’t have to leave for another to arrive. There is room for both.

Completing the Ranch while there’s still time

Time matters. The property envisioned for Silvergate has remained largely unused for more than 30 years. Even if approvals move forward today, opening a new senior living community remains approximately four to five years away. For someone in their late 70s or 80s, those years matter. The seniors who need this choice don’t have decades to wait.

We’ve spent years listening, collaborating and refining Silvergate Rancho Santa Fe to serve the community while respecting its surroundings. Every development involves trade-offs, and thoughtful planning requires compromise. But it must also recognize when a genuine community need deserves to be met.

Silvergate brings together two important goals: helping longtime residents remain connected to the people and places they love while welcoming new generations into the Ranch’s future.

It is designed for the right purpose, in the right place, at a time when this choice is needed.

With sincere appreciation,Greg PetreePresident & COOAmeriCare Health & Retirement, Inc.

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