History
Fifteen thousand homes, 16 mixed-use master-planned communities, more than 20 community parks, thousands of miles of new roads, schools, shopping centers, business parks, college dormitories and 2,000 military residences on seven bases. This is the legacy of The Corky McMillin Companies? four-decade commitment to improving California and giving its people the opportunity to live full and satisfying lives.In 1960, working with a loan backed by the equity in his own home, Corky McMillin began building the first of those fifteen thousand homes. He built one. He took the money he made from that one and built two more. Piece by piece, nail by nail, customer by customer, he and his wife Vonnie built their small company into the largest locally owned full-service real estate firm in San Diego.
From gross sales of less than $100,000 the first year, Corky gradually expanded the McMillin organization into small tract development, and then into multi-neighborhood communities, to its current scope throughout Southern California and an annual ranking by Professional Builder magazine as one of the nation's "Housing Giants."
In 1972 Corky started McMillin Realty in order to offer his homebuyers assistance in selling their previous residences. In 1989 a mortgage division was added to the fold, and later a separate commercial company was established. The spirit of diversification continued, but always with one goal: to provide customers and their families with the full and complete range of real estate services all under one trusted name.
Still headed by Corky, along with his sons Scott and Mark, The Corky McMillin Companies is not slowing down at all. In 2001 and 2002, the firm expanded its homebuilding operations into California?s Imperial Valley and Central Valley regions. In conjunction with the city of San Diego, the company is in the midst of one of the most exciting and beneficial endeavors to come to San Diego in many years: the transformation of San Diego?s former Naval Training Center into a thriving new community on the bay front.
The McMillin dream continues to this day: to simply build outstanding communities where whole families can grow and thrive for generations to come.