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Volume 54, Number 223 830-379-2234
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T h e Vo i c e of Seguin To d a y
Ten new residential subdivisions under construction, several more under review By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera (Seguin) -- Looking for a home in Seguin now comes with plenty of options. The latest snapshot for housing activity in Seguin is showing a record number of rooftops on their way up in the city of Seguin. Josh Schneuker, the executive director for the Seguin Economic Development Corporation, says residential activity has not only arrived but it's providing families various options all across the city. "In the past couple of years, the residential activity has really gone from zero to 60. I've been in Seguin now a little over four years and when I started here, there was not a whole lot of new residential activity on the books and fast forward to today, we have over 8,000 residential lots that are either tied to a development that is currently under construction or is tied to a development that has plans in review by our city staff. So, these are developments that are not hypothetical. These are developments that have legs to them. They are moving through the development process, moving through the
platting process and on their way to starting construction as well. Right now, we have about 10 new residential subdivisions under construction within the city limits and one important thing to note is that it's not concentrated to just one specific area. This is not all happening on the north side of Seguin. It's not happening on east side of Seguin. It's really scattered throughout the entire city. So, it's kind of exciting that we are not having this huge influx of population growth in one area. It's really spread out which I think - -the hope is that it doesn't impact the infrastructure as fast as having all that growth concentrated in one area," said Schneuker. Schneuker says movement on subdivisions is also not taking long. He says construction gets going as soon as most of the subdivisions are announced. "We just kind of started to see the beginnings of Arroyo Ranch and just announced that development. Well now fast forward to today, that development is under construction. It is expected to deliver about 1,100 homes at full
build out. There's not a timeline for build out. A lot of these developments -- they are projected to have up to 500 homes and there's a lot of factors that will go into dictating how fast they deliver those homes. But one thing that we are sure about is that phase one will deliver close to 200 homes there and the developers have already got plans for phase two. So, things are moving quickly on that and again, this development is located on the southwest side of town Highway 46 and FM 725 near Vogel Elementary. The next development that I'll bring up here is Hiddenbrooke and this is one where we've seen actual homes come out of the ground, sales have already been completed. This is off Highway 46 really kind of actually just south of Rudeloff Road, just to the west of Huber Road. It's a 124 acre development that is expected to deliver about 500 homes at first full build out but phase one of the development has anticipated to deliver 122 lots and that's under construction at this moment," said Schneuker. See HOUSING, page 2
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