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This four-bedroom home at
45 Hawk Ridge Drive in The
Ridges is part of a wave of
new luxury developments
sweeping Las Vegas.
Lots of new luxury is coming to the Vegas real estate market. Hundreds
of lots, as it happens, containing—if all goes according to plan—multimil-
lion-dollar homes built with the newest materials and technologies in
communities that emphasize nature, conservation, and sustainability.
On one side of town, there is the 555-acre Summerlin project in which
the Howard Hughes Corporation has partnered with Discovery Land
Company (discoverylandco.com) to create a residential resort community
unlike anything Las Vegas has seen. The A rizona-based Discover y,
known for constructing elite private clubs and residential complexes
all over North America, will build a Tom Fazio
–
designed golf course on
land that's well-suited for it, with peaks and valleys and views of the
adjacent Spring Mountains, nearby Red Rock Canyon, and the Strip.
"This is probably as good as it gets," Discovery partner Steve Adelson
says of the community's location, just south of The Ridges. "We're really
excited about the elevation changes from a golf perspective and creat-
ing view corridors for the real estate."
The residential offerings (in a project that Adelson predicts will take
five to seven years to sell and 10 years to fully
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