Find a new development at Esencia Commons, a planned 20-acre shopping center now pre-leasing for retailers and restaurant businesses alike to service the impressive growth of the area. The shopping center will be part of a 42-acre mixed-use development featuring a multi-family residential, business park, and self-storage (complete and occupied). Esencia Commons is centered around a one-acre commons space designed as a community amenity and gathering space. The Village of Esencia is located in the master-planned community of Rancho Mission Viejo. Neighborhoods, parks, greenbelts and trails all fan out along the western slope of the village. Everything is situated for maximum walkability and access to courses and conceived to enhance the residents’ connection to open space and indoor/outdoor living. A mile east of the Village of Sendero, Esencia in Rancho Mission Viejo inhabits a prominent ridgeline and broad western slope overlooking foothills, orchards, pastures, stands of live oak, canyons, and creeks. It’s a breathtaking panorama of ranch scenery from an elevated western-facing site, ideal for capturing afternoon sunlight and ocean breezes. Esencia is easily accessed by a widened Cow Camp Road off of Antonio Parkway to the south and Los Patrones Parkway (Highway 241) at its eastern edge. The new mixed-use community plans to increase Rancho Mission Viejo's population to 60,791 at full build-out from 35,319. Every aspect of the Village of Esencia exudes a harmonious relationship to its setting, its simple, intuitive plan, its scenic walkability, its celebration of outdoor living, its rich experience set, and its diverse neighborhoods that reinforce a single goal: to embrace the kind of robust community life and individual vitality that is the essence of ranch living of living on the land and among its natural rhythms.