The conceptual plan outlined for the new community of Bridgeland exemplifies what a true Master Planned Community has to offer its residents.   This 10,000 acre project will eventually be home to over 65,000 Houstonians and 20,000+ new homes. A true master planned community entails significantly more than simply placing streets in a row and squeezing as many lots as possible into the space. A true master planned community has exactly that - a Master Plan. Bridgeland is a true Master Plan Community and here is why:

• As one of the largest new residential developments in Houston, the original land planners of Bridgeland began with an extensive environmental study designed to enhance and preserve the landscape for future residents.
• Bridgeland has designed roadways that consider sight lines so that meandering lakes and landscaped open space greet drivers at every turn. 
• You won’t find trapezoidal drainage ditches in Bridgeland. The land planners have taken these characteristics and developed them into attractive and functional trails and waterways.
• Residents will never find long stretches of fencing with homes backing to busy thoroughfares.  
• Bridgeland has chosen to sacrifice land to offer lakes with natural meandering shore lines instead of cement edged detention ponds.
• Bridgeland has buried all the power lines in the first phase, The Shores, to enhance views for residents.
• Additionally, the land plan offers a hierarchy of trails, border to border to provide physical links for pedestrian/bicycle traffic to various villages, village centers, activity centers, etc. Exercise trails with fitness stations will be scattered through the project as well as nature trails along waterways and creeks to provide views of water fowl, aquatic plants/grasses and open up educational opportunities.   
• Bridgeland has conceptualized shopping hubs within the community that avoids unattractive retail strip centers.
• Bridgeland has a plan for a bustling Town Center which may include hospitals, schools, future employment, entertainment and a significant shopping component.
• Multiple recreation facilities offering swimming pools for all ages, community centers, ball fields, tennis courts and more will be conveniently located around the development exclusive for Bridgeland residents.
• The community of Bridgeland will have full time Activity Directors to program everything from arts and crafts classes to fishing and nature field trips around the property.
• Bridgeland is one of a few master planned communities in the nation that has also developed a comprehensive education plan for its residents. The plan will include locations for pre-schools, private schools, schools for special needs students, multiple public school locations as well as satellite college campuses and continuing adult education classes all within the boundaries of the Bridgeland community. 
• To provide housing offerings for all demographic and psychographic markets, Bridgeland plans to offer a multitude of housing products. From conventional neighborhoods, in price points from the mid $100’s, to custom home designs in excess of $1 million as well as an exciting new project described as “new urbanism”, the first of which is planned to be ready for sale in 2008.