Bay Area Edition | February 2023

TAMING the Wild West

Much of League City is undeveloped, but seven housing communities are expected to come to the west side centered around part of the upcoming Segment B of the Grand Parkway. The housing developers will also build needed infrastructure in the area.

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general manager of Hillwood Commu- nities, the developer of the tract. Phase 1 lots are expected to be ready for con- struction by summer 2024, he said. The 800-acre community will have 1,700-1,800 homes upon build-out, and it will feature parks and a recre- ation center, Bynum said. “League City is a vibrant city that’s well located and has a great school dis- trict,” Bynum said. Hillwood Communities plans to invest about $200 million into devel- oping the area, which the company expects will generate over $1.5 billion in value upon build-out, Bynum said. Laying the foundation Since most of the west side of League City is undeveloped, it lacks critical infrastructure, such as roads, and sewer and water lines. However, the housing developers will build infra- structure, including internal and arte- rial roads, Sims said. “We’re going to have [ve] roads that are running north-south that don’t exist today, or at least don’t exist completely today [on the west side],” Sims said. Landing Boulevard, Hobbs Road, Bay Area Boulevard, Maple Leaf Drive and West Boulevard are all expected to eventually connect to FM 517. Hobbs Road stops short of FM 517 at a dead end, and it is expected to be extended by developers within two years, Osborne said. Other roadway connections are also planned, such as one from League City Parkway to Friendswood Lake Bou- levard that will be built by Hillwood Communities as part of its unnamed Steadman-West tract development, Sims said. Following that, the company will begin other infrastructure devel- opment and platting. Bynum said the company has begun clearing the property and is working on the approvals to start constructing League City Parkway, and work is expected to begin in the spring after bidding. “I would say we’re ready as best as

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tract; the Westwood subdivision; the Westland Ranch Planned Unit Devel- opment; the Lloyd PUD; and the Dun- can PUD, which includes the Pedregal and Samara communities being built by dierent developers. “All of these developments are com- ing here with no incentives [from the city],” Sims said. “They’re building here because they want to build here.” The Westwood subdivision will have 1,364 homes at build-out, 1,100 of which are already built, Westwood developer Travis B. Campbell said. The subdivision is expected to be complete in early 2026, he said. Many lots of the Westland Ranch PUD and Duncan PUD are undergoing infrastructure development. Pedregal has more than 200 homes built and is expected to be nished by the end of 2025, President of Cervelle Homes Jerey Payson said. Construction on homes is expected to begin in the sec- ond quarter of this year for the Samara community, Sims said. However, the Georgetown devel- opment and Lloyd PUD are in earlier stages of development, League City ocials said. Meanwhile, construction on drain- age and stormwater detention infra- structure is expected to begin on the Steadman-West tract of land this sum- mer, said Russell Bynum, Houston

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Acres: 499 Homes upon build-out: 1,364 Timeline: early 2026 completion 1 Westwood

“People come here because of the quality of life, our schools, our parks, our security, our drainage, the bang for the buck for a home, and proximity to downtown Houston and Galveston,” said Scott Livingston, League City’s director of economic development. City ocials anticipate the Texas Department of Transportation’s extension of the Grand Parkway will spur commercial development. Furthermore, demand for local commercial areas will rise as new communities are built in the west. Even before development on the west side, League City’s population grew by 36.9% from 83,560 residents in 2010 to 114,392 in 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. “[League City] is going to pretty much double in population in the next 20 to 30 years,” League City Director of Communications Sarah Greer Osborne said. “We’ve been growing like crazy, but we’re going to continue to grow.” Settling the west side Seven developments are in various stages of progress to further build out the west side of League City and pro- vide homes for future residents. Developments include the George- town community; the Steadman-West

Acres: 500 Homes upon build-out: unknown Timeline: late 2025 completion 2 Pedregal INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT Acres: 1,255 Homes upon build-out: unknown Timeline: TBD 3 Samara Acres: 838 Homes upon build-out: TBD Timeline: TBD 4 Westland Ranch Planned Unit Development PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING Acres: 800 Homes upon build-out: 1,700-1,800 Timeline: Phase 1 lots by summer 2024, completion by 2033 5 Steadman-West tract PLANNING

Acres: 2,050 Homes upon build-out: TBD Timeline: TBD 6 Lloyd PUD Acres: unknown Homes upon build-out: TBD Timeline: TBD 7 Georgetown

SOURCES: CITY OF LEAGUE CITY, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, VARIOUS DEVELOPERS COMMUNITY IMPACT

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