Welcome To Oak Knolls Shopping Center

Serving the Orcutt and Santa Maria area for over fifty years. With 85 retail shops and office spaces, Oak Knolls is not only our communities dream, it's also a destination for visitors of all ages. The shopping center brings together everything from food, to entertainment, to medical facilities. At Oak Knolls Shopping Center, we have the space for your ideas and business.

The Minson Company, L. P. began in 1958 with a visit to the Orcutt area by the original general partners, Larkin Minor (the “Min” in Minson) and Stuart Bartleson (the “son” in Minson). Vandenberg Air Force Base was expanding at the time signaling a need for housing and retail services in the Orcutt area. Thus began the construction of the Lake Marie area with housing and the Oak Knolls area with a Safeway Market and surrounding housing tracts in 1962 and 1963.