Waco Relocation Guide

Relocating to Waco ?

Sometimes it can be difficult relocating to a medium size market like Waco when you are trying to gather the information on where to look at numerous places. If you want a "one stop shop" try the Chamber of Commerce Relocation Guide. It has just abut everything a prospective Wacoan could want.

Attractions:
Armstrong Browning Library
Art Center Waco
Bear Habitat
Cameron Park Zoo
Carleen Bright Arboretum
Dr Pepper Museum
Heritage Square Historic Homes
Homestead Heritage
Mammoth Site
Martin Museum of Art
Masonic Grand Lodge
Mayborn Museum Complex
Red Men Museum
Scottish Rite Museum
Suspension Bridge
TCV Winery
Texas Ranger Museum
Texas Sports Hall of Fame
Performing Arts:
Baylor Theatre
Bosque River Stage
MCC Theatre
Music in Waco
Waco Civic Theatre
Waco Hippodrome Theater
Waco Symphony
Recreation:
Cameron Park
Cottonwood Creek Golf
Lake Waco
Lake Waco Wetlands
Lions Park
River Bend Park Ballfields
Waco Regional Tennis Center
Waco Water Park

Of course, when it comes to where you are going to live, we are a little biased. You will find that Cotton Crossing is Waco's only "Traditonal Neighborhood Development" that truly gives you the feeling of another time and place. Most people who are moving to Waco are coming from a larger market where they are used to having numerous Master Planned Communities to choose from. Cotton Crossing fills that need and is centrally located in the heart of Waco & Woodway since it was built on top of the old Western Oaks Golf Course.





Mark P.Felton, offers buyers looking for houses in Waco a full suite of professional services. As a licensed realtor and co-owner of Keller Williams Waco, he can assist you with any of your real estate needs. Mark also is a Custom Home Builder and Developer. His home building company is Front Porch Homes which builds in and around the Waco area. And his development company is Frontera Development, which is a full service real estate development firm based in Waco, Texas. The primary focus is residential, master planned communities that emphasize the values of New Urbanism and Traditional Neighborhood Development.


For More Information, Call Mark P. Felton at 254-495-1241 or go to http://www.cottoncrossing.net/




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Waco Real Estate Market in Growth Phase

The following article was written by Scott Connell of the Waco Chamber of Commerce and is a great highlight of some of the exciting things we have going on in the Waco area.

Waco area seeing excellent growth

Thursday, May 17, 2007

By Scott Connell

Vice president, economic development, with the Waco Chamber of Commerce

Waco has seen tremendous growth, especially in the past two years. From a retail perspective, the developments along Interstate 35 are getting the most attention and investment. The focus is on a few exits around Texas Highway 6 in South Waco and Loop 340 on the North side at Bellmead and Lacy Lakeview. The area also has been experiencing a large amount of investment in health care. Providence Hospital is completing a $50 million expansion and Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center recently broke ground on a new $184 million hospital complex at I-35 and Texas Highway 6.

Population numbers
McLennan County	226,189
City of Waco	120,465
Hewitt	12,987
Bellmead	9,555
Robinson	9,062
Woodway	8,689
Lacy-Lakeview	5,804
McGregor	4,847
China Spring	3,789
Elm Mott	3,113
West	2,711
Mart	2,531
Axtell	2,284
Lorena	1,595
Bruceville-Eddy	1,534
Moody	1,393
Riesel	1,004
Crawford	789
Hallsburg	533
Leroy	333
Ross	234
County demographics
Female	51.4%
Male	48.6%
White	62.0%
Hispanic	20.6%
Black	15.2%
Asian, Indian, Hawaiian	2.2%
High School Grad	76.6%
College Grad	19.1%
These demographics were obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest releases, mostly on complete statistics at the end of 2005.

A preview of the future Heritage Square.

There currently are several significant projects underway in Waco. Triliji Group, for example, is completing construction of Legends Crossing, a $50 million, 150-acre mixed use development at the crossroads of Texas Highway 6 and I-35. Stonehenge Development is building a $49 million, 9.4-acre mixed-use development in downtown Waco. Sanderson Farms is completing construction near TSTC of a $70 million chicken hatchery and processing plant, which will employ 1,300 people in the next year. In addition, Caterpillar Logistics has announced the leasing of 975,000 square feet of distribution space at a former General Tire facility near the intersection of I-35 and US 77. Many other projects are underway in the community that together represent more than $321 million in investment and 2,189 new jobs.

The "new-look" Hilton Hotel, a 4-star masterpiece.

Residential development continues to boom in two directions around Lake Waco — south/southwest along U.S. Highway 84 and northwest in the China Spring area. Many of the new residential areas are close to the 70+ employer Texas Central Park, a 3,000-acre business park located between I-35 and U.S. 84. I-35 developments are taking advantage of the regional accessibility of Waco and the traffic on the corridor.

Student housing loft project proposed for Heritage Square.

Retail also is growing along Franklin Avenue. New retailers in the Waco market include Pei Wei Restaurant, Academy Store, Mardel, Rib Crib, Wild West Wings, Dickey’s Bar-B-Q, and a new The Home Depot, which was built in Bellmead. Comfort Inn & Suites and Sleep Inn also are two names that have entered the market. Waco is seeing a lot of second and third stores of some of the major retailers already in the area.

A "birds-eye" view of the future Heritage Square parking area.

The places to watch for future development include downtown Waco, which has been receiving a lot of attention and focus for development; and the I-35 and Texas Highway 6 interchange, including the Central Texas Marketplace and Legends Crossing areas that will likely have more tenants vying for space going forward. The Texas Department of Transportation has a large construction project with fly-overs underway at that intersection. The Robinson and China Spring areas have both seen tremendous residential growth and are expecting significant commercial development as well.

Waco has experienced some of the strongest industrial growth in its history during the past few years. The labor force continues to grow with a relatively low unemployment rate, and the overall market should grow at an accelerated pace in the coming years as more jobs get filled.

Mark P. Felton is a proud member of the Waco Chamber of Commerce and the Waco Real Estate Community. He is actively involved in all aspects of the maket including, residential & commercial construction, development, and real estate brokerage. For more information about Mark or some of his projects please contact him at 254-495-1241.

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Cotton Crossing Debuts at HOTBA's Parade of Homes

Cotton Crossing enters it's first house in the Heart of Texas Builders Association Parade of Homes.

This year the HOTBA is celebrating its 50th Anniversary and Cotton Crossing is proud to be making its debut during such a historic year.

"We feel like the HOTBA Parade of Homes is the single best opportunity for us to show off what we can do to Waco and the surrounding community" Mark P. Felton, Developer of Cotton Crossing & President of Front Porch Homes.

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