Company Profile : History

Chronologically, your tour would begin with Greenhaven in Sacramento’s Pocket Area, the first master-planned community in the state capitol and the first built around a manmade lake.

The pride of the late Harold Parker, who founded Parker Development Company in May 1956, Greenhaven won the National Association of Homebuilders award for the country’s best-planned community in 1962.

Today Greenhaven remains a prestigious place to call home.

Fast forwarding to present day and moving east along Highway 50, Parker Development Company duplicated Greenhaven’s success by winning the same best-planned community award in 1997 for the gated master-planned community of Serrano in El Dorado Hills. Serrano, which was chosen over nearly 800 other contenders across the nation for the award, was designed as a tribute to its setting, which encompasses some of Northern California’s most beautiful landscape.

In developing Serrano, Parker capitalized on the natural contours of the rolling foothills that afford commanding views throughout the 3,500 acre community, while earmarking some 1,000 acres of land, including mature oak groves and natural creeks, as preserved open space, the finest quality neighborhoods to its customers, while playing an active role in the community as both an employer and a good neighbor,” says Bill Parker. “We will continue this tradition for generations to come.”