TULE SPRINGS
acre Park Highlands East and a 600acre Park Highlands West.
The larger development was supposed to begin construction in 2006, but it fell victim to the Great Recession. A rotating cast of owners added to delays.
The project has since split in two, with the larger Villages at Tule Springs led by KBS SOR Park Highlands TRS LLC.
The 8,600-home project is comparable in size to the 2,200acre, Cadence development in Henderson and the 1,700-acre Skye Canyon development in northwest Las Vegas. Those developments broke ground in 2013 and 2014, respectively. Cadence will have 13,250 homes and Skye Canyon will have 9,000.
Brian Gordon, a principal with Applied Analysis, said the timing of the development has been affected by the economic downturn and the recovery of the local market.
“Now that the housing market is more stable than it once was, the developers of the Villages at Tule Springs are looking to bring that product to the market,” Gordon said.
With the exception of newer projects such as Skye Canyon, Cadence and parts of Summerlin, “There are relatively few locations for homebuilders to acquire property within master-planned communities in Southern Nevada,” Gordon said.
The next step for the development is to get approval from North Las Vegas for an improvement plan. Once that’s approved, a connector road will be built linking Revere Drive and Commerce Street to the 215 Beltway.
The development borrowed its name from the nearby Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument. The 22,650-acre monument, known for prehistoric fossils, became a part of the National Park System in 2014.
The Villages at Tule Springs has four sections and borders the Eglington Preserve, which is part of the national monument.
Housing prices will range from $200,000 to more than $750,000.
Plans call for two elementary schools, a fire station, a police station, a commercial shopping center, and 97 acres of parks.
The master plan is expected to eventually house about 25,000 people. Contact Alexander S. Corey at acorey@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0270. Follow @acoreynews on Twitter.