More schools in River Islands’ future
There’s a lot happening at River Islands in Lathrop this fall, including preview showings and grand openings of a number of new-home neighborhoods. Given the popularity of the master-planned community, there are always new neighborhoods in the design and building phases as other successful neighborhoods are completed. The result is that River Islands today offers home designs from award-winning architectural firms, built by some of the state’s best homebuilders, priced from the mid$500,000s to well over $800,000.
The community enjoys a location along the shores of the San Joaquin River, and has been beautifully designed with lakes, parks, and trails. It
has established its own charter school system, the River Islands Academies, with two K-8 campuses open today, a third now under construction for the fall 2022 school year and a high school whose first phase will open in 2023.
River Islands today counts among its amenities 13 lakes, a trail along the San Joaquin River, the private Islanders Field baseball stadium, the lakeside Boathouse restaurant, parks, playing fields and open space. A Town Center with retail and restaurants
is currently being designed. The community has a Fire Station, already in service, and a police administrative headquarters building is under construction.
In the future, River Islands will add to its existing plan 13 more lakes, for a total of 26 lakes throughout the community. Four more schools will be built. A second downtown area will be developed. The trail system will extend over 18 miles, ringing the entire community and offering pedestrian bridges over major intersections.
More sports parks, community parks and
neighborhood parks will be added to the plan, totaling 160 acres. Overall, approximately 40% of River
Islands’ total acreage will consist of open space.
Among the upcoming grand openings will be
Balboa by Kiper Homes and Cardiff by Signature Homes, both planning openings in the next few weeks.
Balboa, as its name suggests, offers a waterside lifestyle, with homes and docks built along one of the community’s newest lakes. Described by the builder as “clean, contemporary, comfortable and casual,” the homes at Balboa offer oneand two-story designs with three to five bedrooms and from 1,950 up to 2,859 square feet. Kiper Homes has been a longtime builder at River Islands, and its communities have been among the most popular.
The homes at Cardiff by Signature Homes are larger, ranging in size from 3,261 to 3,677 square feet. All of the Cardiff homes have been designed as two-story plans, and all offer five bedrooms. Cardiff ’s location is close to the newest K-8 charter school being built as part of the River Islands Academies, which will open for the fall 2022 academic year.
The Welcome Center at River Islands is open daily except Mondays from noon to 5 p.m. It is located at the corner of River Islands Parkway and Somerston Parkway. Price lists, tour maps and lists of all of the neighborhoods are available there. Most of the sales offices are still open only by appointment; for contact information for the individual neighborhoods, go to RiverIslands.com. The community website has all of the most updated information available, as well as pricing, floor plans and renderings of all of the homes currently being offered.