The Orchard Site Plan And Information

[kingwilliam]

(West San Antonio) - Dallas-based Cumberland Investments recently closed on the purchase of 565 acres of land at the northwest corner of State Highway 211 and U.S. Highway 90 on the city's West Side. Cumberland is working to create a master-planned community on the site, to be called The Orchard, according to Deborah Bauer, president of San Antonio real estate firm Drake Commercial Group LLC. As part of that master plan, Cumberland has carved out 300 acres for a power center that could include a mix of garden offices, hotel development and retail users. The Orchard is situated in "the heart of the growth pattern" for the city's West Side, Bauer says. "The site sits directly on (Hwy.) 90 and captures the traffic all the way from here to Castroville, and the going-home traffic on (Hwy.) 211," she adds.

[crunchtastic]

Does the heart of the growth pattern in west san antonio contain more plans for 1604? The current highway expansion project will be woefully inadequate the minute the asphalt is dry. Looks like all the farm and ranch land to the SW is getting carved into more development, and there still aren't solutions for 281 north.

I hate to see San Antonio repeating the same growth patterns as Houston with the same predictable consequences. And, road access is already more limited by terrain and the recharge zone. A few more years, we'll have to be as far as Junction to be out of the SA suburbs.

[kingwilliam]

Does the heart of the growth pattern in west san antonio contain more plans for 1604? The current highway expansion project will be woefully inadequate the minute the asphalt is dry. Looks like all the farm and ranch land to the SW is getting carved into more development, and there still aren't solutions for 281 north.

I hate to see San Antonio repeating the same growth patterns as Houston with the same predictable consequences. And, road access is already more limited by terrain and the recharge zone. A few more years, we'll have to be as far as Junction to be out of the SA suburbs.

I'm not sure what the transportation plans are for 1604. But there is so much going on along the 211 stretch from 90 to Potranco. There are four developments that will bring over 4 million square feet of retail (The Orchard being one) alone, Briggs Ranch, Redbrd Ranch and Stevens Ranch. Along 90 closer to 1604 there's masterplanned subdivisions West Meadows, Applewood Ranch and Luckey Ranch.