[
  {
    "id": "DB04",
    "title": "History \u2014 Irvine Company",
    "url": "https://www.irvinecompany.com/about/history/",
    "date": "Undated; accessed 2026-10-18",
    "notes": "Primary timeline: 1864 origins, 1960 master plan, 1977 investor acquisition, majority in 1983, sole owner in 1996, first San Diego buildings in 1982, Spectrum Center opening in 1995. Overrides apparent timeline typo on Bren's personal website."
  },
  {
    "id": "DB05",
    "title": "History \u2014 The James Irvine Foundation",
    "url": "https://www.irvine.org/about-us/history/",
    "date": "Undated; accessed 2026-10-18",
    "notes": "Primary seller-side history: foundation required to sell Irvine Company shares in 1977 to comply with federal legislation."
  },
  {
    "id": "DB06",
    "title": "Irvine Ranch Gives Way to Urban Development \u2014 Irvine Historical Society",
    "url": "https://irvinehistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Irvine-Ranch-gives-way-to-Urban-Development.pdf",
    "date": "Historical chapter; publication date not established; hosted 2020-10; accessed 2026-10-18",
    "notes": "PDF pp. 22\u201325: group acquisition $337.44 million; early Bren stake estimated 34.3%; April 1983 additional 51.8% for $518 million financed by bank loans, resulting 86.1%. Historical account, not an audited ownership register. Its Bren Company buyback detail conflicts with other sources and is not used."
  },
  {
    "id": "DB10",
    "title": "Our Portfolio \u2014 Irvine Company",
    "url": "https://www.irvinecompany.com/portfolio/",
    "date": "Undated live page; accessed 2026-10-18",
    "notes": "129 million square feet; more than 590 office buildings; 125 apartment communities and 65,000 units; 40 retail centers. Company holdings, not a personal net-worth valuation."
  },
  {
    "id": "DB13",
    "title": "Donald Bren \u2014 official biography",
    "url": "https://www.donaldbren.com/",
    "date": "Undated; accessed 2026-10-18",
    "notes": "Supports first Newport Beach house, Bren Company, Mission Viejo role and later planned communities. Current page has an apparent error saying five years after 1968 for Irvine purchase; use DB04's unambiguous 1977 date. Initial-loan amount omitted."
  },
  {
    "id": "DB16",
    "title": "Don Bren buys his company back from International Paper for $3.5 million \u2014 House & Home, July 1972, printed p. 16",
    "url": "https://www.usmodernist.org/HH/HH-1972-07.pdf",
    "date": "1972-07",
    "notes": "Original trade report quoting IP executive Andrew R. Taylor. PDF page 18 visually checked. Itemizes stock, payment, notes and warrant."
  },
  {
    "id": "DB17",
    "title": "Irvine Co.\u2019s Bren buys paper stock \u2014 Associated Press, Orange Coast Daily Pilot",
    "url": "https://archive.newportbeachlibrary.org/NBPL/0/edoc/1295195/1984-08-17%20-%20Orange%20Coast%20Pilot.pdf",
    "date": "1984-08-17",
    "notes": "Contemporary AP report quoting Irvine spokesman Gary Hunt; confirms Bren retained International Paper shares after buying back the builder. Its retrospective year and price differ from the original 1972 trade report; use only share-retention and personal-investment facts."
  },
  {
    "id": "DB18",
    "title": "Property-tax annotation 220.0075 \u2014 California State Board of Equalization correspondence",
    "url": "https://www.boe.ca.gov/proptaxes/pdf/220_0075.pdf",
    "date": "1984-10-30",
    "notes": "Primary government record, opening facts: 34% holder buys another 52% in April 1983 and gains control. This is evidence of the transaction, not advice about present tax law."
  },
  {
    "id": "DB21",
    "title": "Bren says Irvine Co. merger on \u2014 Orange Coast Daily Pilot",
    "url": "https://archive.newportbeachlibrary.org/NBPL/0/edoc/1326956/1983-10-15%20-%20Orange%20Coast%20Pilot.pdf",
    "date": "1983-10-15",
    "notes": "Original company press-conference reporting, front page. Board approved merger; transfer of Newco debt to Irvine. Company discussed alternatives if blocked, so do not assert inevitable bankruptcy or liquidation. Completion and failed injunction corroborated by DB06."
  },
  {
    "id": "DB22",
    "title": "Irvine Apartment Communities, L.P. \u2014 Form 10-K for year ended December 31, 2001",
    "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1038358/000089256902000622/a79994e10-k405.htm",
    "date": "2002 (reporting year 2001)",
    "notes": "Primary filing, note 3: October 2000 $112.6m mortgage financing secured by three communities, 7.95% fixed rate, maturity November 2011, proceeds for general construction. Also documents public apartment vehicle 1993\u20131999, so avoid saying the entire apartment business was always wholly privately owned."
  }
]