Johnson Development also plans to break ground in the coming months on the community’s first amenity center, which will include a fitness center and resort-style pool on four acres. In addition, the developer has set aside about 80 acres for commercial development as well as more than 200 acres of parks and lakes with several miles of interconnected trails.

“We try to create a sense of place for our residents across all of our Johnson communities,” said Steve Sams, general manager of Jordan Ranch. “It’s important to build a community, not just a place with a bunch of houses.”

Jordan Ranch is Johnson Development Corp.’s second master-planned community in Fulshear, a fast-growing suburb west of Houston. The new community is about three miles north of Johnson’s first community in Fulshear, Cross Creek Ranch, which spans 3,200 acres south of Katy. Johnson Development has announced a new active-adult community and the area’s first luxury apartments in Cross Creek Ranch, which won the Houston Business Journal’s Landmark Award for residential development in 2013.

“Fulshear has really become a place to be in on the west side of town,” Sams said. “It has become Fort Bend County’s premiere address.”

Jordan Ranch — like Cross Creek Ranch — will likely attract young families working in the nearby Energy Corridor. The community is located less than a mile south of Interstate 10, making easy access to west Houston energy companies. Children in Jordan Ranch will be zoned to the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District, which is planning to build an elementary school within Jordan Ranch, Sams said.

Johnson Development Corp. is the second-largest Houston-area master-planned community developer, according to HBJ research. It owns approximately 6,135 acres in the Houston area.

By:  Paul Takahashi

Reporter for the Houston Business Journal