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  • Community garden concept grows in The Woodlands

    Houston Chronicle

    Around the perimeter of the gated garden in Alden Bridge grows a Children's Garden, which is specifically designed to serve as an educational opportunity for young people. Groups from Conroe ISD and private schools, youth programs and even families wandering over after a sports game next door have the opportunity to see where healthy produce comes from.

  • Woodlands premier office space the ‘biggest gorilla’ in Houston market

    The Woodlands Villager

    “The build-out is market-driven as to the completion of residential and commercial [projects],” he said. “We foresee commercial to take more years than residential. With the current volume of residential, we will likely see a decline [in residential growth] in three to five years. With commercial, [the pace of development] is based on market conditions.”

  • Woodlands retail market is still booming

    Houston Chronicle

    “Retail is extremely important to the dynamic of a community. … It’s a huge benefit to residents because it keeps your property taxes lower so we can operate this community effectively and all the services they bring through sales-tax generation…" Of The Woodlands’ $121 million budget for 2015, nearly $50 million or 41 percent came from salestax revenues.

  • Trauma services set to expand in Montgomery County

    Community Impact Newspaper

    Aside from offering residents in The Woodlands area better access to medical care, the newly constructed and renovated hospitals are expected to promote job growth, an increase in tourism and an overall increase in revenue as sales tax is raised from more visitors to the area.

  • Hotel growth comes to The Woodlands area

    Community Impact Newspaper

    In 2016, the CVB estimates there will be more than 775,000 hotel nights available in The Woodlands with the addition of two new hotels, The Westin and Embassy Suites.

  • Township board likes The Woodlands for possible cultural arts center

    The Woodlands Villager

    “We feel like The Woodlands has grown into a sizable region that having our own facility for not just The Woodlands Symphony … but will also house theater, drama productions, choir productions, dance, art studios; we want to give it the full gamut...We want to have it living, breathing and active.

  • Woodlands panel eyes land along creeks for hike and bike trails

    Houston Chronicle

    A Woodlands task force has endorsed a plan that members said could connect one-third of family residences in the community through a 13-mile bicycle and hiking trail.

  • Woodlands bike and pedestrian plan advances

    Community Impact Newspaper

    “There’s a large swath of the community that would be able to take advantage of facilities like this,” Cade said. “It’s not a bicycle plan—it’s a pedestrian, runner and bicycle plan.”

  • Mobility study highlights need for regional transit plan

    Houston Chronicle

    The $500,000 South County Mobility Study, which was conducted by the Houston-Galveston Area Council over nearly two years and funded in partnership by local entities and the federal government, identified $207 million worth of projects that it deemed critical to mobility to be implemented by 2020.

  • Seeing past The Woodlands

    Houston Chronicle

    Call it the Woodlandsification of Montgomery County. There’s no doubt that the spread of upscale neighborhoods will change the semi-rural landscape on the western half of the county. But it also could reshape the area socially and politically, according to planners, public officials and longtime residents.

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