Unbelievable View | Water Lot | Granbury

Lot With A ViewOver the last 35 years, I have stood on some pretty incredible lots around North Texas, while in pursuit of the next location to design and build a new spec home on. This particular lot probably took my breath away more than any one I’ve looked at over the years. If you want a new home with an outdoor living environment/pool area that features a gorgeous view that goes on for miles, miles, including a view of Comanche Peak (the mini mountain you see when driving into Granbury) then this is definitely your lot.

These pictures do not begin to do justice to the panoramic view this rare lot provides, which is located in one of Granbury’s nicer, new home developments. The lot is priced at $289K, which includes the pad work, and a nice, well constructed stone wall surrounding the pad site.

 

Bryan Smith Homes is available to design and build you a one-of-a-kind dream home on this amazing lot, which is located on the water, and could accommodate a custom boat house some 300 feet below. However, each lot in the large luxury home development comes with a slip in its private marina. Lots of great possibilities with this incredible lot.

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Town Creek | New Braunfels, Texas

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Town Creek, a hometown neighborhood that is environmentally, economically and socially sustainable, and a welcoming downtown district in New Braunfels.

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Sustainability
Sprawl, a common problem across America, is theresult of a particular way of thinking. Andres Duany, one of the founders of the New Urbanist movement, describes it well. Prior to World War II, “developers were generalists — they set out to build entire villages or urban neighborhoods… today’s developers are specialists. One builds only shopping centers, another office parks, another houses. Traffic engineers design only the roads, environmental analysts worry only about the open space… but no one looks out for the big picture. The result is a collection of monocultures: a disaggregation of the elements of community into specialized areas.”*

Retail 3This tendency to compartmentalize leads to seeing the natural environment as somehow separate from ourselves, rather that fundamentally connected to us. Town Creek integrates built and natural environments in beneficial ways.  This is evident in a land plan that places home, work and other resources near each other, with wide sidewalks, tree-lined streets and on-street parking reducing the need to drive.

*Andres Duany “A New Theory of Urbanism” Scientific American, December 2000

Place Making
We are creating a real place that will endure and be loved. Brian R. Stebbins, Urban Land Institute member and CEO of Cooper & Stebbins in Southlake, Texas says there are a number of necessary elements for good place making. They include:

  • A comprehensive master plan that evolves over time to meet the changing needs of the community and its residents
  • Mixed-use. An environment that includes shops, restaurants, movie theaters, offices, hotels, residential, government and public spaces
  • Plans and designs that are sensitive to the geographical location help make the place a good fit for the existing community
  • Pedestrian-friendly environments are essential in a world of higher energy prices
  • A variety of public meeting places makes the destination more than just a shopping center or retail outlet.
  • A focus on nighttime as well as daytime activities adds vibrancy, life and around-the-clock action acknowledged as essential to locations with a diverse population.
  • An emphasis on architectural details gives buildings a sense of place and time
  • Public gatherings and traditions

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Crystal Falls | Hill Country Bliss

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Welcome to 5,000 acres of Hill Country bliss. Crystal Falls is the last untouched landscape of true Hill Country living in Austin’s booming northwest corridor. A community where the stories of hard scrabbled cattlemen, homesteaders and Indians thrive and seep into every corner.

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From 2,000 pound, hand carved limestone street signs harvested from our old Whitestone quarry to dramatic stockade fences made of traditional cedar stays, when you come to Crystal Falls, you know you’ve discovered a master planned community that is wildly different from any other. This is a community that truly embraces the land and its history.

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Voted “Best Master Planned Community” by the Austin Business Journal, and one of the Top 50 in the Nation, Crystal Falls has quickly become one of the most sought after addresses in the Austin metropolitan area. One reason? Your home choices are as vast as our vistas. Discover gated, pristine Hill Country acreage home sites and build your custom dream estate high atop a ridge in Grand Mesa. Or settle in on your front porch and watch your kids play in The Highlands – Crystal Falls’ traditionally scaled neighborhood providing offerings from elite national and Austin home builders. You can even observe a game of golf from your own backyard in The Fairways or Cap Rock communities, overlooking the stunning Golf Club at Crystal Falls. And, while Crystal Falls is complete with many modern amenities – golf, tennis, swimming, parks and access to top-notch education – the luxurious splendor of the Hill Country skies at sunset and the wonder of sleeping under a million stars remains from eras gone by.

HILL COUNTRY ACREAGE ESTATES LOTS – From $69,000 to $150,000

Bryan Smith Homes is available to design and build you a new luxury home in this section of Crystal Falls. Imagine living in the lap of luxury while experiencing the beauty of the country. At Crystal Falls, you can own a piece of pristine Hill Country acreage to enjoy the wide-open spaces and build your perfect dream home. We offer gated Hill Country home sites in Grand Mesa ranging from 1-3 acres. Choose from panoramic ridge-top views, golf course frontage, creekside pecan bottoms, secluded canyons, pancake flat or wild and woolly terrain. Wherever you choose to put down stakes, you will have deer, turkey and other of God’s creatures there to remind you – we are just visiting. Living in Crystal Falls, you will be a part of something truly unique. Every imaginable detail, covenant and deed restriction is in place to further preserve the community’s value, nature and our residents’ experiences. Each home site is uniquely different from one another; some featuring natural limestone outcroppings while others display the beauty of native hardwood tree cover.

Texas Hill Country House Plans, Texas Hill Country Home Builder Dallas Fort Worth Austin, Texas Hill Country Home Builder, Texas Hill Country Plans, Texas Hill Country Home builderUnlike most large lot communities, our acreage home sites enjoy underground natural gas, underground electric and HI-DEF communications options. So you will receive inner city services without the hassle of ugly propane tanks or views spoiled by overhead utility lines. There is also fire flow protection with city fire hydrants located throughout the community – something not often available in more rural neighborhoods. This provides peace of mind and savings on insurance premiums.

Turn your dream of owning Hill Country acreage into a reality at Crystal Falls with the help of Bryan Smith Homes. More information on Crystal Falls.

 

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