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Hi, I am AGENTNAME, your real estate professional for Gilroy in California. If you are looking to buy, sell, relocate or for any other information about real estate in Gilroy or the surrounding areas you've come to the right web site.
Welcome to Gilroy,Gilroy, Nestled between the Diablo and Santa Cruz Mountains in the southern-most tip of Santa Clara/Silicon Valley, is best known as the "Garlic Capital of the World," and home of the annual Garlic Festival in July. Gilroy, a growing community with a population of about 40,153 representing over 2 percent of Santa Clara County, is the center of a rural area of about 45,000.
Major community facilities include: St. Louise Regional Hospital along U.S. Highway 101, Wheeler Manor, a senior residence, and an expanded Senior Center complex at Sixth and Hanna streets. Gilroy's ethnic population breakdown is 47.7% Caucasion, 47.3% Hispanic, 3.4% Asain, 1% Black, .4% American Indian, and .3% other as of 1990, however, the school age population, is over 50% Hispanic.
World class shopping is available to Gilroy homeowners at 145 stores at the Gilroy Premium Outlets, a five-phase retail complex that brings shoppers into Gilroy from all over the Bay Area and Central Coast regions, offering incredible values on famous name brands with savings of 25-65% off retail. Antiques, collectibles and specialty shops are located in historic downtown Gilroy, with over 20 stores with 65 antique and collectible dealers along Monterey Street with one of the finest selection of furniture and turn-of-the-century items in the Santa Clara Valley.
Gilroy's mature neighborhoods ranging from historic to traditional ranch style homes on large lots blend with newer single family homes in subdivisions to create an ambient atmosphere for home buyers and homeowners, served by nearby schools, parks and churches, and just the right combination of rural living and suburban amenities. Average house values in Gilroy are in the $410,000 range.
Thousands of jobs opportunities are available in Gilroy from manufacturing, research and development to retail and tourism. The Indian Motorcycle company is headquartered in the city of Gilroy and manufacturers it's 100 year old legendary motorcycle here. Economic growth in Gilroy has centered around the high tech software and support industries as well as a variety of manufacturing and production industries.
Gilroy is centrally located within a short driving distance of Monterey Bay, Santa Cruz, the San Joaquin Valley, and the San Francisco Bay Area and is easily accessible from U.S. Highway 101 and California State Highway 152. Gilroy is situated at the crossing of U.S. Highway 101 and California State Highway 152. A $23 million project that was recently approved will allow for several major improvements to Highway 152 between Pacheco Pass and Highway 101 in the Gilroy. Improvements to the Highway 101 and Highway 152 interchange will widen a section of Highway 152 from two lanes to four, and install traffic signals at Frazier Lake Road, Furlong Avenue, and Ferguson Road. Much of the widening project is expected to be completed by early 2003. The completion date for the traffic signals is the fall of 2004. The project is being funded by a half-cent sales tax that Santa Clara County voters approved in 1996.
Gilroy offers a variety of fine dining, from fresh
garlic to gourmet and plenty of take-out, dining in Gilroy is a gourmand's
dream.
Besides Gilroy's excellent park system, there are a number of area attractions that homeowners enjoy, Including:
With its Mediterranean climate and mild temperatures, Gilroy's residents enjoy up to 70 percent sunny days, with an average rainfall of about 20 inches per year. The Pacific Ocean nearby keeps temperatures uniform. The average annual temperature is 62.8°, but summer temperatures can reach 100°. The average high temperature in July is near 90° while winter temperatures drop to an average of 57° in January. Winter lows have been as low as the 20s, with the first freeze usually coming in November. The average date of the last freeze is around March 1.
The agricultural growing season ranges from 300 to 350 days a year. The average relative humidity reaches 90 percent or higher at night in the wintertime, but can drop to around 60 percent during the day. In the summer and fall, humidity is usually around 70 percent at night, but only 40 percent during the day. Winds are usually light to moderate and up to 20 miles an hour out of the northwest.
Gilroy has won more park design awards from the California Park and Recreation Society than any other city in California. Check out Friends of San Martin Animal Shelter Top 10 Buying Tips
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Downtown
Gilroy, with it's new vitality and a healthy respect for history, make for
a lively and interesting town center. Gilroy is a charter city which
employs a City Council made up of seven members with four-year terms,
including a separately elected mayor, who can serve more than a single
term. Gilroy offers a variety of excellent community facilities and
resources placing the city high in recent "quality of life" surveys in the
Bay Area cities. 
The
modem technologically prolific industrial era has seen an increase in
commercial interest in Gilroy as a site for expansion of "Silicon Valley."
About a thousand acres of real estate remain available for industrial
growth and real property development. Gilroy has developed from a
rural, agricultural community to the fastest growing city in the Silicon
Valley. Gilroy is proud of its growth and its ability to provide a high
quality of life to it's homeowners resulting from increased employment
opportunity. 
Gilroy
has 12 beutiful parks ranging in size from 1/8 to 125 acres, making the
City of Gilroy the winner park design awards from the California
Park and Recreation Society more often than any other city in
California, with awards for Christmas Hill Park, San Ysidro
Park, Las Animas Park, and El Roble Park among others.
Two on Gilroy's newest facilities include neighborhood parks next door to
Luigi Aprea School and Rod Kelley School. 
Gilroy
has 13 public schools in the Gilroy Unified School District. with about
8,900 students and five private schools serve an additional 400 students,
and approximately 4,500 students attend Gavilan College. The Gilroy
library is newly refurbished and computerized. 
Gilroy,
a "Tree City U.S.A.", has a total of 440 acres of parkland with 86
acres developed with parks ranging from 1/8 acre to 125 acres in size and
a number State and County Parks located in close proximity to and
recreation areas including: