Frequently Asked Questions
A: Our 100-unit apartment community is nestled against the Mission Hills, in a residential neighborhood on Mission Boulevard in beautiful Fremont, CA. Our location is convenient to shopping, medical services, and churches and is just blocks from historic Niles and Fremont. See Map.
In 2005 Fremont Vista was awarded top national honors for Assisted Living design by the National Association of Home Builders for a design that represents the best of California living. We offer several rental apartment floor plans, accommodating those desiring independent living or requiring assisted living. The community features beautiful landscaping with gardens, fountains, a spectacular courtyard with a cascading waterfall, and plenty of patio space for relaxing and entertaining friends and family.
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A: Fremont is an East Bay community just south of Oakland and north of San Jose.
The recorded history of the Fremont area began on June 9, 1797, when Mission San José was founded by the Spaniard Father Fermin de Lasuen. The first English-speaking visitor to Fremont was the renowned trapper and explorer Jedediah Smith in 1827. The Mission prospered, eventually reaching a population of 1,886 inhabitants in 1831.
In 1846 the town’s namesake, John C. Frémont, arrived. Fremont grew rapidly at the time of the Gold Rush. Agriculture dominated the economy with grapes, nursery plants, and olives as leading crops. In 1868 a magnitude 6.8 earthquake on the Hayward Fault collapsed buildings throughout Fremont, ruining Mission San José and its outbuildings. Until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake caused its destruction, Fremont’s Palmdale Winery was the largest in California. The ruins of the Palmdale Winery are still visible near the Five Corners in Irvington.
From 1912-1916 the Niles section of Fremont was the earliest home of California’s motion picture industry. Charlie Chaplin filmed several movies in Fremont, most notably “The Tramp.” Fremont was incorporated in 1956, when five towns in the area came together to form the city of Fremont.
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A: Fremont Vista Retirement Homes features spacious studio and one bedroom apartments, each with a kitchenette or a full kitchen, private bath, generous closets, big windows, individually controlled heating and cooling, and a 24 hour emergency call system.
All residents will have access to the Community Center and planned activities; transportation; and amenities such as dining, a beauty and barber salon, a library, a computer center, activity and recreation rooms, beautifully landscaped patios and lanais, a fitness center, a theater, and cable TV.
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A: Fremont Vista Assisted Living can accommodate residents requiring personal care assistance, which may include medication monitoring, grooming and bathing assistance, ‘round-the-clock well-being monitoring, personal laundry, and stand-by or hands-on assistance with one or more of the activities of daily living. Basic services in assisted living include a 24-hour staffing and emergency response system, three meals per day, weekly housekeeping and linen service, planned activities, and scheduled transportation.
A special unit for residents with memory impairments is also available.
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A: Fremont Vista is a rental retirement community. All apartments are rented under a one year rental agreement, but you have the right to cancel at any time with a 15 day or 30 day notice depending on your circumstances.
We do not require any large up-front investment, endowment, buy-in, or entrance fees.
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