School-District Manifest Destiny
Cinco Ranch — recently named the fastest-growing residential community in the country by a real-estate consulting firm — will keep expanding west. Newland Communities just purchased 492 acres west of...
View ArticleComment of the Day: Cinco Ranch Sprawls West
“This is really, REALLY good news. It brings us one step closer to the ultimate goal of expanding this wonderful neighborhood all the way to Fulshear. Although they may have to change the name to...
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The Difference a West Makes: The Firethorne School District Divide
Speaking of Katy schools: The power lines in the photo on the left, a couple miles southwest of Katy Mills mall, flag the dividing line between Jefferson Development’s Firethorne subdivision, zoned to...
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Spawn of the Grand Parkway: Huge New Woodlands-Like Development, Just South...
A New York land development firm called Coventry Development has just announced grand plans to establish a giant eco-friendly, mixed-use development modeled heavily on the ecological principles first...
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Who’s Behind Springwoods Village, Anyway?
The development director of the New York-and-Denver-based firm that just announced it would be creating a new eco-themed 1,800-acre community immediately south of The Woodlands — and directly adjacent...
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How Springwoods Village Will Earn Its Lunch Money, and other Secrets of the...
The HBJ’s Jennifer Dawson picks up an interesting detail about Springwoods Village, the mysterious eco-themed community being planned by a mysterious company for 1,800 mostly forested acres just south...
View ArticleComment of the Day: Yes, a Ring Road Even Further Out Than the Grand Parkway
“I hate to be the one to break the news, but the next outer loop beyond Grand Parkway is already being planned. If you look at the land plan for Cross Creek Ranch, there’s a big right of way built into...
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Could Glenn Beck Bring Independence to Texas?
“If you really wanna pass on the secrets, if you really wanna pass on truth, embed it in architecture,” says Glenn Beck in the January 10 episode of the Blaze. “That’s what I intend on doing.” The...
View ArticleComment of the Day: The Ideal City
“If you really want to give people a taste of American liberty, why would you build a master-planned community, where decision-making is taken away from the residents? Build a normal town with...
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No Lumps: A Look at Master-Planned Imperial Sugar Land
First things first: A sign off Hwy. 6 welcoming you to Imperial Sugar Land is so far the only part of the 716-acre master-planned community that’s under construction, touts a press release from the...
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Grand Parkway Progression a Part of Master-Planned Valley Ranch Master Plan
Next month, reports Real Estate Bisnow’s Catie Dixon, construction’s supposed to start on 3 more segments of the Grand Parkway: That’s why F1, F2, and G on the map here are colored in that cautionary...
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Homebuilders Playing Through Old Katy Golf Course
Just flip the sand traps to sandboxes and the water hazards to water features, and you’re most of the way there: A 440-home master-planned community, reports The Rancher’s Zach Haverkamp, is aimed for...
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Boy Scouts Sell Camp Strake in Conroe To Master-Planned Community Master...
Camp Strake, owned by the Houston arm of the Boy Scouts of America since the 1940s, is now under contract to Johnson Development, responsible for communities like Sienna Plantation in Missouri City...
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Montgomery County Master-Planned Community Picked for Middle-Aged District
Arizona homebuilder Taylor Morrison has just purchased 700 lots in the master-planned community Woodforest a few miles north of The Woodlands, and the Houston Business Journal reports that these lots...
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What You Might Find in the Center of Springwoods Village
Plans for what is to come to the master-planned, eco-minded Springwoods Village were revealed yesterday; this rendering shows the Town Center, to be located in this 1,800-acre development near the...
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Lightly Sterilized Beach Lagoons Planned for Land Tejas’s Bayou City Suburbs
Land Tejas’s Scottish-castle-themed Balmoral development in Humble (sketched out above) is 1 of 2 currently planned Houston-area locations for fake lake maker Crystal Lagoons’s giant outdoor pools,...
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Un-Re-Zoning of Missouri City Tract Paves Way for Shipman’s Cove Master Plans
The Missouri City council voted last week to approve a “planned development” zoning classification for a woody 95.3-acre tract at the edge of the Creekmont and Newpoint Estates subdivisions off Hwy. 6...
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How They’re Avoiding Flooding Far Upstream from Downtown Houston
How was developer Newland Communities able to lift the first cohort of 6,200 planned new homes out of the 100-year floodplain in Elyson, its Katy Prairie development just west of the Grand Pkwy. at FM...
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How Tiki Island Came to Be, and To Be Called Tiki Island
“I wanted to call it” — wait for it — “Buccaneer Bay,” says the peninsula’s developer Welcome Wilson Sr. in a recent interview with the Chronicle‘s Nancy Sarnoff. For all its alliterative charm,...
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