Building an Entire Residential Subdivision from Start to Finish - Three Years in Twelve Minutes!

So, the story goes that a horse training facility went out of business and a major home builder purchased the land for a rumored $20M and converted it into a residential subdivision. In the first short segment you can even see the big swimming pool they used for horse rehab and therapy.
Starting in 2019 the builder cleared off the structures, moved the existing vegetation to a corner of the property and began the process to turn the 20 acres of land into 39 homes. The last house, which started as the parking lot for the two model homes, closed early in 2022.
When I first learned this was going to happen I took advantage of the opportunity and flew my drone over the property periodically because I thought it would be interesting to see it develop over time and I'd never seen a subdivision built from start to finish.
I hope you find it interesting too. Quite honestly I'm amazed I kept up with this for three years despite my tendency to become easily distracted ... Look! A Squirrel!!

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[drenfreezy]

Awesome video! I work for a big subdivision contractor in Texas and do land development on the side. This was a great video to show my kids so that they understand what daddy does every day. Thank for your efforts!

[TheTeensGuideToWealth]

Amazing footage and confirmation that this can be done! THANK YOU!!!

[TheJonOrtiz]

This is one of the most FASCINATING videos I have ever seen. Definitely going into my favorites. Good job 👏

[RichardMaiero]

Liked it. Good insight into the amount of planning that must be done to build out a complete subdivision.

[savagesociallounge]

I’m a real estate agent and want to become an developer myself! This is awesome 🎉

[shaham]

This video is really amazing to watch.

[gomezxv]

Pretty neat! I am doing a subdivision for a school project (Mines a 39 acre square tract). Definitely eye opening 😊 nice to see a visual of what is designed on paper.

[OmniXBro]

You know what would be amazing for this video? Another version where someone's commentating every single thing being shown on this video so we can comprehend more about what's being done and why, and why in that order.

[quizzyondemand]

Im going to build my own subdivision one day!

[shanra]

I'd like to develop something this size soon.

[Trapperjohn]

This is my dream. I’m a builder and want to take on a whole subdivision myself. What model drone do you use? Thanks for the awesome video

[GlobalistJuice]

Great video!👍I am fascinated with land development & building process. I'm here in Tucson, would love to know where in Phoenix this is, so I could get an idea of what each home sold for.
Because doing the math, just to break-even on the cost of the land ($20million), the developer would have to sell each of 39 homes for $512, 820 - again, that price would be to just to break-even on the cost of the land, nothing else! I would imagine each home would have had to sell for a cool million to even come close to making a profit!

[sabla]

Thanks for sharing such a marvelous work... Would like to ask the total area of the land and the area of each plot.

[cuSTEMJourneys]

These are some awesome shots! I know you don't own the land but do you have any idea how many acres it was?

[robertgregory]

Those are some huge ramblers. Do you have ant idea of the square footage of those homes? Old time electrician here. Worked on many of those projects in the NW...

[JandCfilms]

"Look! A squirrel!" I'm surprised I read the description.

[cuteboy]

Awesome video what was this land size?

[Neotank]

Great drone footage! Was that grove of potted trees for planting in the new subdivision?

[vijayshenoy]

What is the use of those huge pipes ??

[frios]

I’m constantly reminded how humanity can be so impressive and constructive and also so careless, reckless and stupid!