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Scant on details about the plan, New York-based Coventry Development Corp. is poised to begin work on a mixed-use, sustainable project in North Houston.Details will be unveiled Oct. 5 in a one-hour web briefing, according to company officials. The developer did reveal that the development will be transit-oriented and include residential, retail, office, recreational and educational uses.

guessing something near the proposed intermodal transist station (or whatever its called).

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How far south does the North Houston Association extend? Their president will be there and I'm assuming he would not be supporting something not in his area. He said they support the north Harris and south Montgomery counties.

From the looks of their aerial map, it doesn't look like extends past West Rd. or thereabouts.

http://www.north-houston.com/publications/index.html

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XOM site

You think it's the Exxon site? Not THE site, but NEXT to it, right? Would Exxon really include retail and residential? I could see transit-oritented (sort-of) and educational uses, but not those others. I wouldn't mind being wrong though.

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This article calls this development a, "community" and adds a tiny bit more detail:

WHAT:Coventry Development Corporation and its planning strategists will be discussing the development of a new, sustainable residential and commercial community for North Houston. The development is being built as a mixed-use community, designed to integrate mass-transit, a wide variety of homes, and a mix of retail uses, offices, schools, parks and recreation - all within close proximity.

WHO:Keith Simon, SVP, Coventry Development CorporationCharlie Savino, Executive Vice President, CDS Market ResearchDr. Ray Perryman, President, The Perryman Group Jon Lindsay, President, North Houston Association

WHEN:10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. CSTTuesday, October 5, 2010

WHERE:Virtual Web-Based Briefing

Please visit https://cc.readytalk.../r/ld5rxdr0hba7 to register for the briefing.

BRIEFING:Coventry executives and associated planning strategists will give the media an overview of the planned community including insights and graphics regarding usage, market research and forecasted economic impacts.

VISUALS:Slides of the presentation will be included in and available following the briefing; location maps, schematics and renderings of the development.

http://www.earthtime...on,1481753.html

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Cool! This will be huge if it happens. I think local developers will begin to take note and plan developments more like this (If its like the one in Colorado). Good to hear about new developments in the Houston area, how long has it been? Like 2-3 years since any major announcements being posted in the "going Up" section.

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I signed up to be part of the announcment tomorrow, recieved a confirmation and then got another email this morning saying my request to register was declined :( Also, the subject heading in the email reads, "Development announcment for North Houston by Coventry Development Corporation." Not sure if anything can be gained by reading into that, but just thought it was interesting wording.

Someone in Nancy's blog said Coventry has owned property near Exxon's site for a very long time. I guess they're just capitalizing on Exxon's move.

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Someone in Nancy's blog said Coventry has owned property near Exxon's site for a very long time. I guess they're just capitalizing on Exxon's move.

Coventry owns the would-be XOM site.

Whether they have XOM buy-in or not, frankly, now is the time to develop it, before Spring's reputation worsens any further.

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Coventry owns the would-be XOM site.

Whether they have XOM buy-in or not, frankly, now is the time to develop it, before Spring's reputation worsens any further.

Nancy Sarnoff said she might tweet about it during the presentation if anyone wants to know. It starts at 10am today. http://twitter.com/nsarnoff

edit: also, a little more info from an article earlier this year

While it could be some time before Exxon Mobil reveals its plans, a 1,400-acre tract west of I-45 and the Hardy Toll Road </STRONG></SPAN>is being prepped for development. An improvement district approved by the Texas Legislature has been created to build and finance utilities and roads to serve the property west of I-45.

Allen Boone Humphries Robinson LLP was hired by Springwoods Realty Co., an entity related to land owner Coventry Development Corp. of New York to create an improvement district on the large parcel.

One of the PDR documents shows plans for additional development south of the likely Exxon Mobil site and north of the proposed Grand Parkway.

They include a town center, medical facility, commercial space, apartments and single-family homes.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/energy/6841225.html

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Nancy's live tweets:

1st one:

Coventry Development Corp. announcing Springwoods Village near The Woodlands

2nd one:

At buildout, Springwood will have 35k employees, 15k residents, 8M sf of office, 1.2M sf of retail and 5k residential units, company says.

3rd one:

Springwoods web site now up: http://www.springwoodsvillage.com/

Location:

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http://www.springwoo...context_map.cfm

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100916_PG%20102_Savannah%20Park%20Corridor.jpg

100916_PG%2086_Town%20Lake%20Corridor.jpg

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I got to view the webinar. It seems to me that this will be Houston's newest edge city. I can't say that this is really a good thing. They also tout that this is infill. I don't quite by that. They are also banking on the northline light rail being extended out there, I think that is an inappropriate mode for such a far out local. Commuter rail would be the best option. All in all the development could be much worse, however what makes this "less" sustainable in my eyes is the far flung location, the constant chatter about the Grand Parkway (let's face it, that doesn't qualify this development as transit oriented), and the lack of transit to be with, it also appears to be rather insular. Anyway, it could be worse, but I'm not sure that that makes it good.

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Construction of Springwoods Village is targeted to begin in the second quarter of 2011. Over the next several years, 4,500 – 5,000 homes are expected to be built in addition to 8.5 million square feet of commercial office space and 1.2 million square feet of retail space. The entire development of the community is planned to take 15-20 years for completion.

http://www.springwoodsvillage.com/repository//Documents/CoventryDevSpringwoodsVill%20PressRelease.pdf

I guess if they follow The Woodlands model, the town center and urban area will be the last to come on board, but I hope I'm wrong. Maybe it will be the office buildings along the freeway.

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Outstanding! And this doesn't even include the millions of square feet of potential XOM will be building. As far as the 'farflung' location, people need to get over it. This is not some small midwestern city. It's Houston, TX...the 4th largest city in the country. Montgomery County is one of the fastest growing counties in the country. Why doesn't it make sense to build here? It's close to the airport, 30 min drive downtown, 5 min. to The Woodlands town center. What are the drawbacks? The Woodlands is BOOMING. Montgomery County is BOOMING. I think commuter rail will eventually make it's way up this way which will also help the area. The Woodlands continues to grow, Houston continues to grow and with the location of Exxon-Mobile and other major corporations in and around The Woodlands, this will be a great place to call home. What an outstanding project!

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I love how developers now just fling a "green" or "sustainable" development tag line on anything now. How in the world is paving over a pine forest green? How is building 5,000 mostly single family suburban style housing units outside Beltway 8 sustainable? Yeah, I know, they're leaving a "park" next to the creek...

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more pictures. http://www.designwor...ds-village.html

Not developing is sustainable. But, the world we live in, developers will build where people want to live. So while cutting down trees might not be sustainable, they're going to build anyway, so what they DO build, will be sustainable. I think we all know that.

If you look at it closely, they are doing some really nice things. I think the breeze corridors are such a great idea in and of themselves!!! Isn't that the kind of thing developers used to consider???

This could also become possibly a more desirable place to live than The Woodlands, in some respects. If you moved there from TW, you could be closer to home by as much as 30 minutes. The access to the airport awesome. And if people want to reverse commute, this is the perfect place to work as getting on Hardy going in the opposite direction is like a Sunday Morning drive in the 1990s.

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Looks nice, but I wish some development like this took place closer in. Don't really see the point of the "mass transit center" when it's so far out, people aren't going to be using mass transit way out there, and I don't know of any plans to build it.

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Looks nice, but I wish some development like this took place closer in. Don't really see the point of the "mass transit center" when it's so far out, people aren't going to be using mass transit way out there, and I don't know of any plans to build it.

Not everybody lives within 2 miles of downtown. Go back to your small town. If it was WAYYYYYY out, people wouldn't live there. Clearly you have not seen how full The Woodlands Express busses are in the morning times. Clearly you have not seen how jammed 45 is during the morning and afternoon commutes in north Harris County or south Montgomery County. If it was WAYYYY out, why is The Woodlands so prosperous? If it was WAYYYY far out, why is Montgomery County one of the fastest growing counties in the nation? Funny, nobody ever says a word about "Sugar Land" <nose in the air> or Kingwood.

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It CAN be transit oriented if they got on board rather quickly.

once an office complex or two was built, along with a few neighborhoods, a nice little BRT could run between there and TW, but they have to commit quite early to something along those lines.

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Not everybody lives within 2 miles of downtown. Go back to your small town. If it was WAYYYYYY out, people wouldn't live there. Clearly you have not seen how full The Woodlands Express busses are in the morning times. Clearly you have not seen how jammed 45 is during the morning and afternoon commutes in north Harris County or south Montgomery County. If it was WAYYYY out, why is The Woodlands so prosperous? If it was WAYYYY far out, why is Montgomery County one of the fastest growing counties in the nation? Funny, nobody ever says a word about "Sugar Land" <nose in the air> or Kingwood.

eeeaaaaaasy big fella. I don't think he's opposed as much as you think he is.

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