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Perot-owned Hillwood breaks ground on Legacy community in League City, announces builders

By Florian Martin – Reporter, Houston Business Journal
Mar 7, 2024

Dallas-based Hillwood Communities has broken ground on its third master-planned community in the Houston area, Legacy in League City.

Company executives, city officials and others gathered on the west end of League City Parkway on March 6 for a groundbreaking ceremony.

While crews started clearing the 705-acre site late last year, construction is now underway on a new segment of League City Parkway that will connect the road’s current dead-end near Florence Campbell Elementary School with Friendswood Lakes Boulevard in Friendswood.

Hillwood expects to complete the roughly 1-mile road by September. It is also widening another segment of League City Parkway farther east to four lanes from two. While that segment will not be part of Legacy, it will ensure there will be less congestion to and from the community.

“This area has seen tremendous growth, and one of the things that we pride ourselves on is locating our communities in areas that have enhanced mobility,” Hillwood Houston General Manager Russell Bynum said. “It just means so much to the residents after they move in that they can move about the community in a very efficient and effective way.”

Homesite construction will begin after drainage and detention work is completed. The developer expects lots to be delivered by spring 2025.

Confirmed homebuilders include Westin Homes, Drees Custom Homes, Highland Homes, Coventry Homes, Perry Homes, Shea Homes, David Weekley Homes, Beazer Homes and Partners in Building.

The first phase of the development includes 510 houses. At full build-out, Legacy will have about 1,630 single-family homes on lots with front widths ranging from 40 to more than 80 feet. Homes will start in the $300,000s and go to above $1 million.

The developer also plans to extend West Boulevard southward through the community to eventually connect with the future Grand Parkway section there.

The H. Ross Perot Jr.-owned company acquired the first 540 acres from the Stedman and Wesley West families in early 2022 and added another 156 acres, from a local investor, in September of that year.

Hillwood plans to dedicate about 100 acres of the total 805 acres to League City for a regional park.