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Development Starts

Roger Galatas Interests

The projects included a 335-acre commercial, conference and leisure center that contained extensive shopping, commercial, office and recreation facilities including a large swim and athletic center, the 200-room Woodlands Inn, an 18-hole golf course, an information center for prospective buyers and a 15-acre lake. The expanded construction also required building almost two miles of major thoroughfares through undeveloped land to connect the Grogan’s Mill Village Center to interchanges at Interstate 45. This extensive front-end development allowed The Woodlands to open with enormous impact that really differentiated it in the market place and made it a big time player in the emerging “new town” development initiative sweeping the nation.
The Name Game

Roger Galatas Interests

In keeping with the way The Woodlands has been developed as a community in harmony with nature, of course we always have kept to the nature theme,’ recalls Susan Vreeland-Wendt, a marketing executive with The Woodlands Corporation
The Woodlands' Eagles Get Ready For Summer Vacation

TheWoodlands.com

Since 2000, eagles have nested in the community around Lake Woodlands, making their homes in East Shore, Hughes Landing and the Bear Branch Reservoir.
The Best Master-Planned City In America Resides Here In Texas

America Unraveled

Sequestered within a forested haven, the Woodlands fosters an engaging family life infused with a myriad of neighborhood activities and career prospects – making it one of the most popular master planned communities across the nation.
Physicians Coming to The Woodlands area despite national doctor shortage

Community Impact Newspaper

The Woodlands expects to bring in more physicians and medical staff as the community becomes a bigger hub for health care in the shadow of a nationwide doctor shortage. We’re in a fortunate place, and we’re probably blessed to have an easier time recruiting,” said Josh Urban, CEO of Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital.
Montgomery County recovers from historic flood conditions

Community Impact Newspaper

Although it was not called low impact development in the 1970s when The Woodlands was being built, Jeff Taebel said the master-planned community implements a lot of the same principles and sets a good precedent for the rest of Montgomery County.
Woodlands fire station renovations set for March completion

Houston Chronicle

Due to the centralized location of Station No. 2, the department has a partnership with the Montgomery County Hospital District to have an ambulance and two emergency medical employees there, too. The Montgomery County Hospital District is paying half the cost of the renovation.
The man behind our wildflowers

The Woodlands

"That fact that we set aside land to plant wildflowers is really unique,” Fiedler explains. "It really speaks to how nature-oriented both communities strive to be. Beyond their beauty, the wildflowers are also very sustainable from a water conservation and emissions standpoint.”
Memorial Hermann continues expansion in The Woodlands

The Woodlands Villager

“We advance health by nurturing growth and innovation and delivering quality patient care...The expansion of services, facilities and medical staff at Memorial Hermann The Woodlands provides our constantly growing community with the versatile and dynamic healthcare options that it needs and deserves. No matter how large our community grows, we’ll have the capabilities and expertise to serve it.”
New hospitals bring better health care access, medical amenities

Community Impact Newspaper

Besides giving residents of The Woodlands area better access to medical care, the hospitals are expected to bring in medical tourism, with visitors outside The Woodlands coming to the area for medical care. Besides tourism, jobs and an increase in revenue to local economies in and around The Woodlands are other factors that are expected to occur once the hospitals are developed.

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