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The company, which counts among its founders a former Torrance police officer, has in recent years become the largest taxpayer in Ventura County and one of the area’s largest employers.

The converted greenhouses at the 165-acre Camarillo site once grew cucumbers, a nod to the pattern of repurposing distressed properties employed by co-founder Kyle Kazan, a former Torrance police officer once assigned to gang detail who made his first millions building a property management empire of Orange County beach rentals.

It was sticking out of a dumpster in Torrance, handed over to the Southern Section office, then presented to the City Section and cleaned up.

Chandler Jones, who set records as a wide receiver at Bishop Montgomery High in Torrance and San José State University, died Sunday at age 33 in a freeway accident, authorities said.

In 2017, he resigned as a Torrance traffic commissioner after video showed him in the back seat of a car while the driver and another passenger pepper-sprayed people at a pro-sanctuary cities rally in Cudahy.