Leisure World is ‘Best Of’ Once Again

For the 2022 Los Angeles Times “Best of the Southland” reader survey, people from all over were invited to nominate their favorite coffee shops, medical groups, hospitals, communities and everything in-between in five regions, including Orange County.

Once again, Leisure World Seal Beach came out on top after all the votes were counted. LW was voted best Senior Living Care/Retirement, which it also won in 2019 and 2020.

It’s easy to understand why So Cal readers elevate it to the top. This nationally recognized active senior community is spread over 542 park-like acres and offers co-ops and condos with resort-style living for people 55 and over.

Celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, LW was the nation’s first mass-marketed housing project, first gated senior community, first all-electric community, and the first to have a health insurance plan and access to an on-site medical center included in residents’ monthly payments.

At its opening in 1962, it was the world’s largest housing development for seniors, the United States’ largest cooperative housing development and the prototype for six other Leisure World communities across the United States built by the Rossmoor Corp., co-founded by developers Ross W. Cortese and his wife, Alona Marlowe Cortese.

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