sentences:  Among other notable transactions, he briefly owned the Mount Lowe Railway, above Pasadena in the San Gabriel Mountains, at the turn of the century.In the early 1900s Jared Torrance and other investors saw the value of creating a mixed industrial-residential community south of Los Angeles.They purchased part of the Spanish land grant Rancho San Pedro and hired nationally renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. to design a new planned community, with the architect Irving Gill designing the principal buildings.