Comments on: In Search of the Houston Heavyweights: Most Fattening Real Estate Development

By: GoogleMaster

GoogleMaster — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:12:12 +0000

I nominate Cross Creek Ranch, a 3,200-acre master-planned community in Fulshear. Fulshear, population 716 as of the 2000 census. Fulshear, 33 miles from downtown Houston.

The Chron’s Nancy Sarnoff says, “In [Kickerillo's] new project, Lakes of Cross Creek, the houses will all sit on waterfront lots and start at 6,000 square feet in size. Prices will be as high as $3 million.”

That sounds pretty fat to me.

By: Gus

Gus — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:19:40 +0000

@subprimelandguy: The award is open to any and all interpretations. Your strip-center nomination works!

By: Larissa Lindsay

Larissa Lindsay — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:29:16 +0000

I nominate all the new highrise developments on Kirby Drive near Westheimer. It will be interesting to see what it does to traffic patterns on an already congested street. By going to the sky with their volume, they have been able to compact the number of people in a footprint. If walkable needs are not incorporated into the plans, it could be a very interesting change in the movement of long businesses as well. Will we not go to an area because of traffic?

By: subprimelandguy

subprimelandguy — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:41:54 +0000

Ohhhh, you don’t mean gut busting fattening, but more in the urban planning sense. Then I’d say the new Woodforest master-planned development by the same people as Sienna Plantation and Fall Creek that will now lend suburban credibility to close in Montgomery, Texas.

By: subprimelandguy

subprimelandguy — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:36:51 +0000

I am going to have to go with the newly built, nondescript little strip center in the southeast corner of Hillcroft and Bissonett. It’s tiny and shoehorned on a little pie shaped tract - but contains Hoagies and More, something called Bongos Cafe, Moo Hive Honey Ice Cream, Panaderia La Mexicana,Taqueria La Reyna, and Tortilleria La Reyna. I drive by it most evenings on the way home and I think my arteries begin to clog just thinking about yummy fresh tortillas and taqueria tacos and honey ice crean….

By: kjb434

kjb434 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:59:26 +0000

I’m going to go with the newest large development in Houston: Bridgelands.

It’s 10,000 acres of lakes and homes and the town center is under way out on US 290 past Fry Road.

If it wasn’t so old, The Woodlands and Kingwood would win. They are still the largest, but have been around since the late 70s. I know the Woodlands is in excess of 27,000 acres. Kingwood comes in second.

By: marmer

marmer — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:34:24 +0000

Nomination: (Should that be nom-nom-nom-ination?)

In terms of sprawl and being a magnet for national chain retail interspersed with storage warehouses, it’s hard to beat the Silverlake and Shadow Creek Ranch areas of Pearland.