Houston, Texas real estate development, home buying, landscape, and design

Houston’s middle-age spread continues:

• Just north of I-10 at the Grand Parkway, Kickerillo is starting a large residential development called Grandeur Park. It’ll be across the street from The Grand, Simon Property Group’s new mall. Homes there will cost 300 to 600 Grand.
• Houston will soon stretch to Sealy:
  

  Silvestri Investments of Houston has purchased 1,375 acres just west of Firethorne, which is a mile south of Interstate 10 on FM 1463.

  The new owner will hold the land for future development.

  “With the historical trend of development in Houston, it was only a matter of time before someone purchased land in the next logical pattern of growth,” said Michael Carroll, president of Riverway Properties, who brokered the deal. The price was not disclosed.

• Ross Perot Jr.’s Hillwood Development Company has bought Sienna Plantation South. What we’ll get there: about 7,000 single-family homes on the 3,827-acre site. Included in that total: 300 acres for offices and retail, 100 acres for schools and churches, and 1,000 acres of parks and open space. No breakdown available on the acreage of cul de sacs, lakes, or driveways.
• The fourth Del Webb retirement compound in Texas will be near Richmond, at Highway 59 and Thompson Rd. Fifteen hundred homes on 500 acres. You’ll need to be at least 55 years old to live there, and drive at least 55 to get there.
• It’s tough building slabs in Texas City:
  

  After what developers described as a “minor slowdown,” the 574-home Grand Cay Harbour project in Texas City is back on track.

  Persistent rain during the summer was part of the problem. But project manager Norman Reed didn’t elaborate about what other factors led to a long stretch of inactivity at the development. The project is on 250 acres beside Galveston Bay at the end of the Texas City levee system.

  And don’t you worry about flooding after the construction’s done. This gated community will keep out the tides, too.

• Kickerillo Closes on Land Deal for a Community at I-10 and the Grand Parkway (PDF) [Kickerillo Companies]
• Commercial market still active [Houston Chronicle]
• Project targets older adults [Houston Chronicle]
• North Texas Real Estate Company Buys Sienna Plantation South [Fort Bend Now]
• Grand Cay Harbour sails ahead after delay [Galveston Daily News]

Plan of Grandeur Park: Kickerillo Companies