Rancho Cordova is soon to be home to the large mortgage risk assessment software company, First American Core-Logic. The company has concluded its year long search for a local location and has ended up signing one of the year’s largest leases. First American Core-Logic has signed a deal to occupy a two-story, 54,000-square-foot building in the Capital Center office complex in Rancho Cordova.

Rancho Cordova is starting off the holiday season on Thanksgiving weekend with festive music, delicious hot drinks, and even snow! The Cordova Community Christmas Tree Lighting will be held on Sunday, Nov. 30 at Village Green Park at Capital Village, located at Zinfandel Drive and International. The fun for the whole family starts at 4:30 p.m. with the Christmas tree lighting at 6 p.m.

The Build and Grow clinics are available at Lowes stores across the country and are gaining in popularity as parents are trying to find low cost activities for kids that involve something other than playing video games and text messaging. If you are a do it yourself-er and want to pass on some of those skills to your kids, Lowes offers a great program that allows a parent of guardian to help their child create something of special of their own.

Recently, Rubio’s has been opening restaurants in metropolitan areas that were hard hit by the mortgage crisis. “One of Rubio’s best-performing new restaurants is in Rancho Cordova, a well-to-do Sacramento suburb that has so far avoided being dragged down by the wave of foreclosures and unemployment”