Town Center and New Homes in Section 6 of Mueller

The new town center should break ground in 2012 - it will add a walkable commerce and entertainment aspect to the old airport, and have the Austin Children's museum as one of its main and first anchors. What this means is an easily accessible center for both employees (10,000 are planned at such places at Dell Children's Hospital and beyond) and the ten thousand projected residents of Mueller.

The town center is going in at the same time as the 211 New Homes which make up Section 6. These new homes are of a variety of different types, though are being built by four builders, three of whom have already built in the development. The new housing types include the Shop Home - a live-work solution in and around the town center, and the Courtyard Row Homes, about which little information is currently available. I anticipate that they will be a variation on the Garden Court Home theme - a group of homes facing a common area.

One thing I don't see in the new plans, which also include an HEB grocery due to open two years hence, are new parks. There are already 140 acres of parks in place, and the only real aspect of the hike and bike trails that are missing is the complete loop, as only perhaps a third of the neighborhood has been built to date in terms of surface area.  There may be one more pocket park, though on the developer's master model, it looks diminutive and as the name suggests, the pocket park would be more of a local amenity than a destination in and of itself.