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Las
Vegas Mountain’s Edge - The New
Southwest
Ground was broken February, 2004 for
the new master-planned community of
Mountain’s Edge
near Exploration Peak in the
southwest Las Vegas Valley. Created
with an Old World theme and
accentuated by olive groves and
aged-stone walls, the lifestyle will
center on outdoor recreation
influenced by the geographical area.
This
3,000-acre Mountian’s Edge
master-planned community
will honor the heritage of those who
came before with an 80-acre
Western-theme park, an American
Indian encampment and a simulated
archaeological site for kids to dig
for ancient treasures. The
Western-theme park will include an
Old West town, Native American play
structures,an archeological dig
area, and a water play area among
other attractions. It is a very
pedestrian-friendly community with
lots of trails.
Because the Old Spanish Trail passes
through Mountain’s Edge,
the developer has planned historical
and cultural tie-ins such as
replicated petroglyphs, Native
American artifacts and settler
history.
Exploration Peak, rising to 2,846
feet, is the focal point of the
Mountain’s Edge Community which will
feature over 12,000 residences from
more than twenty builders.
Mountain’s Edge will have over 500
acres reserved for parks, trails and
open space. Small parks within the
Community will recognize the
original occupants and visitors.
These include Paiute Park, named for
the Paiute Indians who lived in the
Valley.
Homes
in Mountain’s Edge will be priced
from about $150,000 to $700,000 with
the median home price about
$245,000. The community is at Blue
Diamond Road and Buffalo Drive. An
estimated 32,500 people could be
living at Mountain’s Edge upon its
build-out in 2010.
By
mid-August, 2004 most of the
off-site public infrastructure work
at Mountain’s Edge had been
finished. $90 million in special
improvement district funds have been
used to build more than ten miles of
sewer lines, five miles of water
lines, three miles of power and
telephone lines and one mile of
high-pressure gas lines.
The
developer of the Mountain’s
Edge master-planned
community, Focus Property Group,
purchased nearly 1,000 acres for the
community in November, 2002 at a
Bureau of Land Management public
auction. Focus set a new standard
for land prices in the Las Vegas
Valley by paying $160 million for
this land. They then accumulated the
remaining parcels from individual
property owners and groups to create
Mountain’s Edge.
Focus
has been revegetating the area with
indigenous plants such as Mojave
yucca, creosote brush and acacia
shrubs and building a trail leading
to the summit of Exploration Peak.
This land had been torn up by years
of off-road vehicle use.
Among
the more than twenty builders for
the homes at Mountain’s Edge are
Amstar, Astoria, Avante, Beazer,
Chartered, Concordia, Desert Wind,
D. R. Horton, Juliet, KB Home,
Kimball Hill, Lennar, Meritage/Perma-Bilt,
Pardee, R/S Development, Storybook,
Toll Brothers, Trophy, US Home/Lennar,
Warrmington Nevada and Woodside.
Concordia and PermaBilt were the
first developers to get started.
Many of the builders already (as of
September, 2004) had reservation
lists to cover their entire project.
Mountain’s Edge
will also have a 300-acre regional
park in the center of the community.
Other community features will be
adult and youth baseball fields,
multiuse sports fields, picnic areas
and children’s play areas. The park
will host community events and
activities. There will also be four
elementary schools in Mountain’s
Edge, two middle schools and a high
school in addition to commercial and
office buildings.
To visit Mountain’s
Edge,
take Interstate 15 to Blue Diamond
Road and then go west to Buffalo
Drive. If you have questions about
the new Mountain’s Edge community
including information on types and
availability of homes being offered |
