THE BIG DIFFERENCE
Montgomery County is pockmarked with large scale Country Estate Communities from the past that never seemed to find enough landowners willing to build homes. They bought for the future that never came. With the Developer sold and gone, many of the remaining converted to Sellers in a No-Buyers market. Great for privacy; hard on property value!
Indeed, life has a way of throwing you in reverse from time to time. Like the 1986 relationship that was going along just fine until she showed her true colors during the 1987 NFL playoffs. Or those triple-A bonds you invested in a little to heavily that turned out to be, well, junk. A forward journey is assured in Old Mill Lake.
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Country Estate
Communities are proliferating in the north and northwest areas of Houston. Scale is one of
many ways that Old Mill Lake is differentiated from these communities. We believe that a well-planned neighborhood is limited in
physical size, with well-defined edges and a focused center. The size of a neighborhood is
defined by a five-minute walking distance from the edge to the center. Most of the Estate Homesite Communities lack a center. There is
no central park for adults and children to connect with one another. The land consumed by
these mega-developments is so vast that instead of a five minute walk to the center,
it’s a five minute drive. Its not that we have anything against perfectly straight
streets over a mile long, they’re great for drunk drivers and 747 traffic. We just
opted for the short curvy approach. Our streets bend and move with the contours of the
land. A little mystery awaits around every turn.
Old Mill
Lake has etched a marvelous 235-acre environment that will ensure the value and integrity of the community. One way to preserve
property values is to recognize that a
house is part of a community, not an isolated object, and that a community includes high standards of civic amenity in
the form of walkable streets and easy access to parks, gathering places, and public
beauty. These traits are easily recognized in Old Mill Lake.
One of the throw-ins
included in a smaller scale community is the peace
of mind of knowing that the community will come to fruition within a foreseeable period of
time. Unlike most other Country Estate
Communities, in Old Mill Lake the specter of living on a street full of vacant tall grass
lots is greatly diminished by the fact that all land owners are afforded a three year
opportunity to build, along with the obvious deduction that a 220 acre community will
build out sooner than a 2,000 acre one.
