California | Local | Karima A. Haynes | January 10, 2003
A Texas real estate company's plan to buy sprawling Ritter Ranch on the outskirts of Palmdale has hit a legal snag that could further delay development of the site where a 20,000-resident community was first proposed a decade ago.
California | Local | Wendy Thermos | December 19, 2002
A land auction expected next month in U.S. Bankruptcy Court may resurrect long-dormant plans to develop Ritter Ranch on the outskirts of Palmdale, where a 20,000-resident mini-city was once planned.
California | Local | March 21, 2000
A long-delayed major property development in Palmdale may resume this summer and restore a defaulted property-improvement bond issue under a bankruptcy court plan.
Business | Jill Leovy | April 1, 1997
Ritter Ranch Co., the partnership that once aimed to build a massive residential development in Palmdale, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection.
California | Local | Jill Leovy | January 9, 1997
Property foreclosures are nothing new in Palmdale, where the real estate recession has been lengthy and severe, but Wednesday's dwarfed all others to date.
California | Local | January 9, 1997
Property foreclosures are nothing new in Palmdale, where the real estate recession has been lengthy and severe, but Wednesday's dwarfed all others. The foreclosure was against Ritter Ranch Co.
California | Local | Jill Leovy | July 22, 1996
Ritter Ranch, the giant planned community being developed on the outskirts of this desert city, is in foreclosure proceedings and could collapse in a tangle of bankruptcies and lawsuits if negotiations to save it fall through.
