Community like The Woodlands in Dallas?

[hamiltonpl]

Originally Posted by Jaedpact

Just Google Master planned communities in Dallas Fort Worth. Thats what the woodlands are thats what your looking for.

Agreed. The Woodlands is Plano/Frisco/McKinney/Allen with pine trees.

[Debsi]

I haven't been to either place, but isn't Lantana the kind of place the OP is looking for?

[Lakewooder]

I remember when I worked in Houston I heard someone ask, "where is the Woodlands?"

The reply: "do you know where Dallas is?"

[momof2dfw]

Originally Posted by new2sa

For the poster that gave me a minus rep along with sending this comment and I quote, "misleading, no such tall pines in dallas!!"

Where oh where in my post above, did I ever mention "tall pines in dallas"???

As far as trees, we DO have trees. In fact, we even have pine trees (I can look right out my front window at two TALL pine trees over three stories high, complete with needles AND pine cones)... though certainly we do NOT have them to the extent that Houston does.

As far as my comment about having communities surpassing The Woodlands... yes, there are many. As suggested in one of the posts above, google the master planned communities in the Dallas metroplex... and yes, there are trees (but probably NOT a lot of "tall pine trees").

I hope this clears up any "misleading" information you found objectionable because that was certainly NOT my intention. I just did not realize that it was necessary to be species-specific.

I'd make it up to ya but it says I have to spread it around some


Anyway, yes you did say we had TREES. AND WE DO! I also have 3 very tall pine trees in my yard along w/ some cedars, oaks, crepe myrtles, wax myrtles, etc. I have TONS of trees and so many in fact that when we tell people we lost 3 trees they ask "WHERE?". LOL!!! I also live next to a forest preserve. All natural and not planted by developers either. Some people need to realize that not all of the Dallas region is flat prarie and we do have trees and gentle rolling hills. Oh, and the reason WHY Houston can have more trees than the Dallas region is because your in a sub tropical location where it stays warm and humid even thru the winter. As relatives and friends that live there say, "the daily forecast is always a chance of rain". YUCK! We also don't have the terrible traffic that Houston puts up with. Live in the Woodlands and commute to downtown....... gads. Here in the Big D at least if we live in one burb we can easily get to another or downtown and not have it take all day Oh, and we also don't have to stay indoors if a refinery should catch on fire. Okay, enough of the Big D vs h stuff, it has been done to death. The OP asked a simple question and gets shot down like that it is pretty pathetic.

[BstYet2Be]

Originally Posted by SpeedyAZ

Is there any community in Dallas that remotely resembles The Woodlands in Houston? I mean in terms of size, amenities, walkways, etc etc; The Woodlands to me has always been the gold standard as to which other private communities are held. So far I haven't found any that could match it...

See the post below for the description of two masterplanned communities in the area (sorry it's taken me so long to get you a "real answer")


www.city-data.com/forum/1907501-post13.html

[FarNorthDallas]

Here are some pictures of The Woodlands someone took over on the Houston board. It starts out looking like Southlake and then sortof looks like Las Colinas, but to me there is nothing similar in Dallas to The Woodlands as far as size and scope and having it all in one place and be affordable and involve trees.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/houst...os-4-06-a.html

[loves2read]

The Woodlands was started originally by the Mitchell Corp to a certain extent to provide housing for people who worked for them because they wanted to build their headquarters way north of downtown Houston decades ago when all the oil companies were in downtown houston--they wanted to have people live/work/play and not need to get on Houston freeways...and they had a lot of takers...

guess George Mitchell had a vision for how to grow his money through more than oil and gas...from the web site, it looks like currently there are retail and entertainment venues that allow people to live and shop in Woodlands and not have to leave--there are also two hospitals close by...Conroe is just as close as Houston for most people living there and Conroe is a big town now--not the small community it was back in the 80s...schools are also pretty good...

Trophy Club is master planned community in Tarrant/Denton county that claims on its web page to be the FIRST master planned development in TX--it was based around a golf course that Ben Hogan designed and was tied to the Solana commercial complex in Southlake/Westlake area--that commercial development was slow to really take off --Trophy Club was very isolated from retail and entertainment venues until Southlake started to become more developed in past 8+ years--you have to drive outside the development for groceries and any thing else you need basically--but it has bike/walk trails, 2 golf courses, parks --and there is now hospital close by...

Heritage in Tarrant County is master planned community that is pretty large but don't think anything in TX can compare to just the physical size of the Woodlands--and it still seems to be growing--don't know if technically all new developments ARE in the original scope of Mitchell's long range plans or if they just tie them to the Woodlands' rep...