McKinney

Painted Tree in McKinney Update: Rental Homes Added, Goats Clear Underbrush. Wait — Goats?

By Marlin Weso / August 25, 2021 /

Avanta Residential, a Denver-based that focuses on single-family rentals, announced that it has successfully closed on the purchase of 27 acres of land within Painted Tree to develop a build-to-rent neighborhood of 276 homes and townhomes.

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Historic McKinney Home Waiting to Add New Buyer’s Story

By Bethany Erickson / April 28, 2019 /
McKinney

To say the W.D. Smith home in McKinney, built in 1902, has been around for a great deal of North Texas history is an understatement — from its early beginnings as a farmhouse to its life as an abode for an alleged bootlegger and later as home to a McKinney mayor, the quintessential Victorian farmhouse…

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Honolulu, New York, McKinney? Multifamily Property Trucks Into Listing

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / March 19, 2019 /

From staff reports It’s not often that a McKinney multifamily property finds itself in a “best of” list that includes properties in places like Honolulu, New York, Washington D.C., and Seattle. But that was exactly what happened last week when the Parkside at Craig Ranch in McKinney was one of 10 award-winning projects Multifamily Executive…

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A In-Depth Look at McKinney’s New Affordable Shipping Container Homes Neighborhood

By Shelby Skrhak / September 29, 2018 /

Repurposing shipping containers into buildings, so-called cargotecture, isn’t a brand new concept, but it’s groundbreaking for Habitat for Humanity of Collin County, which hopes to build 35 affordable homes in Cotton Groves, the nation’s first residential neighborhood built entirely from upcycled steel containers. Habitat affiliates in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Ohio have explored building affordable housing from…

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McKinney In Running for $150K Grant to Improve MPAC

By Bethany Erickson / October 30, 2017 /

McKinney officials have been lobbying for a few weeks now, but time is dwindling to increase their odds of winning a $150,000 grant that will be awarded based on daily votes by the public. But if you want to vote and haven’t, you only have two sleeps to get it done — the contest wraps…

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