Infrastructure Forms For New Master-planned Community
Las Vegas Review Journal
January 12, 2006
With the opening of the information center only a few months away, $50 million in infrastructure work for the 1,200-acre Providence community is in place or nearing completion. Focus Property Group, the developer, retained LandTek to manage infrastructure projects such as water management, grading of land and roads, and sewer and storm drain improvements.
John Holden, chief operating officer of LandTek, said the work conducted in conjunction with the city of Las Vegas is on track. He said 70 percent of the residential lots are under construction, the majority of roads have been rough graded, and 60 percent of the storm drainage has been installed.
“The infrastructure involved in a master-planned community of this size and scope is immense,” Holden said. “Our teams set up ambitious goals and we’re on schedule for this community to begin selling in the spring.”
The master plan is located at the Las Vegas Beltway and Hualapai Way in the northwestern Las Vegas Valley. It will comprise single and multi-family residences among 36 subdivisions.
The largest infrastructure project is the soon-to-be completed 27 million gallon reservoir, which will bring water Providence. Holden said the reservoir is approximately equal to a football field-size pool 82 feet deep, and features the largest concrete roof the city has poured for an underground water reservoir. Upon completion of the infrastructure, Focus Property Group and LandTek will add the community’s amenities including parks, trails, thousands of trees, and statues and plaques that are designed to educate and inspire. To name the parks, the developer chose names that reflected Americana.
Huckleberry Park drew its name from numerous sources most notably Mark Twain’s classic character, Huckleberry Finn. Knickerbocker Park was named in honor of author Washington Irving, who penned “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle”, both of which are part of the “The Knickerbocker Tales” collection.
The community’s ball parks are called Ebbets Field, in honor of the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and Doubleday Field, in recognition of the field at Baseball’s Hall of Fame.
Home builders within Providence are: Astoria, Avante, Beazer, Fairfield Residential, KB Home, Kimball Hill, Lennar DS, Lennar EI, Meritage, Pardee, Pulte, Richmond American, R/S Development, Ryland, Toll Bros., Warmington Nevada and Woodside.
