Her youngsters began their education at Didion Elementary School.
Realtor Steve Streng provided a print-out showing Didion School’s 8 (of 10) Great Schools rating. Others rated by Great Schools include Carole Wenzel Elementary, Sam Brannan Middle and John F. Kennedy High.
Both Rosenthal and Maxwell-Jolly enjoy walking in the area.
“For many years several of us in this neighborhood (myself and Julie included) got out and walked together early in the morning before we started our day. When we started doing this, our kids were in elementary school. We were still walking together when most of the kids were no longer living at home,” said Rosenthal, whose daughter was 6 when the family moved from Boston.
Maxwell-Jolly reminisced about being able to walk along the levee at the end of her street.
It’s closed now, but she hopes it will re-open with bike paths added.
Rosenthal likes the proximity of markets including Nugget and Grocery Outlet.
Realtor Streng said that many homeowners can walk or bike to stores and restaurants in Greenhaven-Pocket such as those at Lake Crest Village which has Nugget, Starbucks, Cold Stone Creamery, fast-foods, banks and services.
“It’s one of the most complete little centers I’ve seen,” he said.
Maxwell-Jolly likes to walk early in the morning even when it’s dark. It’s safe, she said.
She also likes the libraries.
Rosenthal and Maxwell-Jolly live fairly close to one another in Greenhaven’s Granger’s Dairy. There are several named neighborhoods in the area.
Greenhaven-Pocket was developed as primarily residential community and is part of the city of Sacramento, according to the Greenhaven-Pocket website. It’s shaped by a bend in the Sacramento River, which borders the Pocket area on all sides except the east.
The community was designed with pedestrian-friendly loop-shaped streets with a linear greenway, which the city owns. It enables children to walk to school and to parks without encountering traffic.
“One of the things that I continue to enjoy is having a refuge of quiet that is nevertheless a stone’s throw from the urban core,” Rosenthal said.
“The Little Pocket has lake access and a bike trail that’s ride-able to downtown,” Streng said.
There were 1,300 lots in the original Greenhaven, he said. Most were constructed by individual builders.
Residents like Greenhaven-Pocket because it’s close to midtown and downtown, the major freeways and the Delta, Streng said. They can easily commute to Elk Grove, West Sacramento, Davis and downtown.
They also like the character of the homes.
Currently there are nine homes for sale on the Metrolist and seven pending sales, Streng said.
The lowest price is $123,000 for two-bedroom, one-bath, 718-square-foot condominium; the highest is $630,000 for a 3,046-square-foot home. The median price for a single-family home is $365,000.
A total of 77 homes have been sold so far in 2016.
Inventory is 1.5 months with homes an average of 18 days on the market.
Does Maxwell-Jolly have any thoughts of moving?
That describes Rosenthal and Maxwell-Jolly.