A 544-home subdivision near the corner of Papago Road and John Wayne Parkway is now under construction.
A brick wall and mounds of excavated dirt mark where utilities are being installed at Houston-based LGI Homes’ Verida 1 community in Hidden Valley.
It is the first subdivision to go up since Amarillo Creek was established further west on Papago Road last fall, and the second HOA subdivision to be built south of city limits.
The subdivision is one in a Maricopa City Council series of pre-annexation agreements with owners of 15 parcels totaling 5,742 acres south and east of the city to provide fire protection to landowners and potential future residents.
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The city in a letter to Pinal County said its general plan calls for higher-density housing in LGI’s Verida master plan.
LGI Homes was founded in 2003 with the construction of its first community, Summerset Estates, in Conroe, Texas. The developer built, sold and closed 337 homes in approximately 2 years.
In 2012, LGI took its first step toward becoming a national homebuilder with the opening of its first community in Phoenix.
Builder Magazine’s 2019 Builder 100 list ranks LGI as the 10th largest homebuilder in the country.
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