so I'm pretty sure that Bayless Miller's 900+ acres has sold. That's Bayless of Bill Miller's fame. His property is just down from the old Jennings Anderson location.
The buyer? Centex.
Do you have any idea how many houses Centex can put on 900 acres? And of course Esperanza is going to begin swinging hammers in the first quarter of 2010. So if Centex builds 1800 houses (and it will probably be MORE) and Esperanza is calling for a minimum of 2500 homes. That's almost 4k houses. If every house has three people on average, that's TWELVE THOUSAND new residents.
When I was growing up in Boerne, the town had a population of 3k.
I know that people move here because it's nice and you're out of the city and it has its charms. But is it charming when there are twenty thousand people living here and Main Street is backed up like a parking lot? Is it a nice place to live when the landscape is nothing but rooftops?
I have no answers other than to say it's sad. It's wonderful for business, but it's depressing to see the REASON people moved here being replace with the REASON they left the city.
Gee, Ben, maybe you should re-think your line of business. All of your publications exist to tout the wonders of the increasingly crowded and short of water Hill Country. It's funny how you always kill the thing you love.
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