New Fort Bend Master-Planned Community By The Johnson Development Corp. To Be Known As Harvest Green

Just weeks after announcing plans to develop its fifth Fort Bend master-planned community, The Johnson Development Corp. has named the 1,300-acre property at the Grand Parkway and West Airport Boulevard as Harvest Green.

The community will offer up to 2,000 homesites, with the first phase of homesites coming available to builders in the first quarter of 2015. Another 87 acres of highly visible commercial property within Harvest Green is located along the Grand Parkway.

A low-impact design-inspired community with impressive natural features, Harvest Green will include 230 acres of lakes and waterways, another 280 acres of greenbelts and open space and 50 acres of parkland. Oyster Creek also winds through the center of the community and will be enhanced with native landscaping and pathways.

"We will be creating a sustainable natural environment in Harvest Green that will offer an abundance of features that families desire along with convenient accessibility to Houston's Energy Corridor and the Sugar Land area via the recently completed Grand Parkway," notes Doug Goff, Chief Operating Officer of The Johnson Development Corp. "It's really the best of both worlds."

A walkable trail system and a central roundabout are also planned to create connectivity between neighborhoods, one of the top amenities requested by today's active families.

Harvest Green includes two existing Fort Bend ISD schools, Travis High School and James Bowie Middle School. A site for a new Fort Bend ISD elementary school will be reserved.

Shay Shafie, general manager of Imperial Sugar Land, will serve in a similar capacity for Harvest Green.

The property is a joint venture between The Johnson Development Corp. and the Permanent School Fund for the State of Texas.

"Harvest Green, a wonderful master-planned community, is expected to earn a solid return for the Texas Permanent School Fund," said Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson.

Patterson, who manages the real estate portion of the $26 billion Permanent School Fund, explained the Permanent School Fund purchased the former prison land, as well as some adjacent property owned by the Texas Department of Transportation, because of the rapid growth in Sugar Land. "Investing in Texas -- and especially Sugar Land -- was a safe bet," Patterson added. "Partnering with a successful group like The Johnson Development Corp. was also a smart choice."

Harvest Green represents The Johnson Development Corp's 14th master-planned community in the greater Houston area joining Riverstone, Cross Creek Ranch, Sienna Plantation and Imperial Sugar Land among its other Fort Bend communities.

About Johnson Development
The Johnson Development Corp. is a Houston-based, award-winning residential and commercial land development company. For more than three decades, the company has set the standard for successful master-planned communities in Houston, Atlanta and other markets around the country. Its impressive collection of Houston-area communities includes Riverstone, Sienna Plantation, Cross Creek Ranch, Woodforest, Fall Creek, Tuscan Lakes, Edgewater, Harmony, Willow Creek Farms, Silverlake and Imperial Sugar Land. The company also is developing for the former Camp Strake property in Montgomery County. Johnson Development's communities in Atlanta include Towne Lake, BridgeMill and Lake Arrowhead. The company also provides outsourced development services for property owners, homebuilders and other parties on a fee basis to help realize the potential of their land positions. For more information on Johnson Development, visit www.johnsondevelopment.com.