Entries for July 2008

The site of the historic Imperial Sugar Company in Sugar Land, Texas, will be transformed from an abandoned mill into one of the country's best examples of sustainable redevelopment.

The Imperial Sugar project will be a 650-acre mixed-use community that blends commercial, retail and single-family homes into a walkable, livable, green community. The project is being designed and managed by Nashville-based developer Southern Land Company with the help of Graphisoft ArchiCAD.

Windstone will be hosting an Open House Tour on Sunday, July 27, from 1:00pm-5:00pm. There will be Townhomes, Village Homes a Manor Home and a Boulevard Home on the tour. These homes range from 3,700 sq. ft. to 10,289 sq. ft. This event is free and open to the public.

Doug Wright will have something on his résumé that most of his college-age peers most likely can't match.

The 20-year-old civil engineering student designed the 13th hole at Westhaven Golf Club, which is under construction in the Franklin mixed-use development. He did so after winning an amateur golf-design contest presented by Links magazine.

Cherokee Investment Partners LLC, a Raleigh, N.C.-based private equity firm specializing in brownfield cleanup and sustainable redevelopment, highlights redevelopment of the former Imperial Sugar refinery property in its annual Sustainability Report (www.cherokeefund.com).

The main activity now is environmental remediation — primarily asbestos removal — which will likely last through the remainder of the year, according to Tom Darden, CEO of Cherokee.

“Sustainability is our business,” he says. “For more than two decades, Cherokee has used private equity, coupled with creativity and expertise, to purchase, clean up and reuse property.”

ArtHouse, the mixed-use development in Keller Town Center, is adding nine tenants.

The tenant mix is a collection of boutique shops that are not national chains. They include art shops, salons, a home decorating business and gift shops.

New apartment development hopes to capitalize on influx of workers

Development on Williamson County's first apartment community in 10 years is under way in Cool Springs just off the McEwen interchange on I-65.

The 10-acre development, to be known as Dwell, will include 14 apartment buildings and 258 upscale units in the middle of Southern Land Company's mixed-use McEwen development.

FRANKLIN — Development on Williamson County’s first apartment community in 10 years is underway in Cool Springs just off of the McEwen interchange on I-65.

The 10-acre development, to be known as Dwell, will include 14 apartment buildings and a total of 258 upscale units in the middle of Southern Land Company’s mixed-use McEwen development.

D Magazine rates Keller as the number 9 suburb in Texas because of home prices and cool projects like ArtHouse.