89 lots in new Greens Creek development
The developers of Greens Creek, a Texas Lifestyle Community, are seeking historical information as they work to build a community of exciting opportunities while remembering the families who settled the area and have spent their lives there.
The community is being developed on the left side of US 377 heading to Stephenville from Dublin. Not only will it include homes, but there are plans for a small business section (facing the highway within walking distance of residents that will serve the needs of the community and customers passing by on 377.
This portion is called “Doubling Ways” and includes commercial properties as well as metal Living / Shop or showroom units, where people can live and work.
There will also be a continuing farmers market on the site, offering fresh locallyproduced food and goods for purchase.
“We want it to be a community that continues,” said Jessica Richmond of ReMax Lone Star, who is working with two local agricultural producers who joined together for the development and have put a lot of time and effort into planning.
“The men that own the land have spent a lot of time and money doing research, water studies and environmental studies,” said Richmond.
The plans at one point included 129 lots, but the owners scaled that back to 89.
Richmond admits she was hesitant to get involved with the project originally.
“My husband Cade and I farm and ranched between Dublin and De Leon., I was initially hesitant, but I was impressed when I found out that they had hired professional engineers to research land, water, and other requirements.],” she reported, adding that every decision she has witnessed has been carefully weighed.
“I had to think long and hard about it,” she admitted. ”I heard how it was such a shame that so much ag land was being taken away.”
Richmond said she knows, after working with the owners, that building the community was not a “light decision to make quick cash.”
She said she and the owners are locals and won’t just develop and move away.
Richmond said the group had discussed getting involved with Greens Creek Water Supply but found it wouldn’t be possible to add so many homes and businesses.
Working with the spacing guidelines of the Middle Trinity Groundwater Conservation district for well drilling and the flow of the land, they landed on 89 lots between two and six acres. (The first phase of the community, Oak Bend Estate, is now being developed and includes 2-5 acre lots.)
Richmond and her partners and co-workers are invested in the community as their office is being built out of the remains of a long-standing barn facing St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Richmond said there have been several exciting discoveries while they have been building the office and incorporating whatever materials they find in homage to the community’s history.
“We found Thurber bricks that don’t have the union seal,” she said in the development of the barn.
Richmond was informed that the Thurber company started stamping the Union seal in 1903 so that made her curious about how old the barn was and its history. “I would love to know more about the barn.”
Likewise, she and the developers want to find out as much as they can about Greens Creek.
“All I found was people who lived here, worked here and made a living and shared their lives,” she said, saying that the findings were fitting. “We just want to add more people to live, work and share their lives.”
“We are next to a cemetery and I’m almost proud of that,” Richmond added. She said some have wondered about being so close to a cemetery but she counters that it brings the past and future closer together. “These are the people who were here” Life continues. For more information on Greens Creek, a Texas Lifestyle Community, visit greenscreektexas. com. Anyone with information on the history of the barn of Greens Creek community can email jessica@mytexaslifestyle.com