Seven Hills is a
master-planned community
A planned community, planned city, planned town, or planned settlement is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped land. This contrasts with settlements that evolve ...
located in
Henderson, Nevada
Henderson is a city in Clark County, Nevada, United States, about southeast of downtown Las Vegas. It is the List of cities in Nevada, 2nd most populous city in Nevada, after Las Vegas, with 317,610 residents. The city is part of the Las Vegas V ...
.
Seven Hills is approximately from the
Las Vegas Strip
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. It is home to the
Rio Secco Golf Club. Seven Hills is located half of a mile east of the
Henderson Executive Airport.
History
A community on the property was initially proposed in the mid-1980s, known as Sky Harbor Ranch, with Japan-based Cosmo World Corporation as the developer. The community's name subsequently changed to Cosmo World, and later to Silver Canyon. The project was cancelled in 1991, when Cosmo World filed for bankruptcy.
Forest City Enterprises
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, in partnership with Canadian developer Terry Johnston, purchased the site in 1993. In January 1996,
American Nevada Corporation became a partner in the project, with Forest City remaining as the managing partner and American Nevada becoming the development manager.
Development was in progress by April 1996,
with site preparations and negotiations with home-builders both underway. Completion of the entire community was expected six to seven years later.
[
The parcel southwest of Seven Hills was sold in 2004 for $557 million. Labeled as 'Inspirada', the area was to be used for "]New Urbanism
New Urbanism is an urban design movement that promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating Walkability, walkable neighbourhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types. It arose in the United States in the early 1980s, and has ...
". A high-density, pedestrian-friendly, master-planned community, it was modeled after towns and neighborhoods built before urban sprawl
Urban sprawl (also known as suburban sprawl or urban encroachment) is defined as "the spreading of urban developments (such as houses and shopping centers) on undeveloped land near a city". Urban sprawl has been described as the unrestricted ...
took root in the United States. Part of the design was to keep Seven Hills and Inspirada as separate areas with no interconnecting roads.
Schools
*Elise L. Wolff Elementary School (2001)
*Glen C. Taylor Elementary School (2003)
*Del E. Webb Middle School (2005)
*Henderson International School (2005)
*Bob Miller Middle School (1999)
*Coronado High School (2001)
Notable people
* Bryce Harper
*Pierre Omidyar
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*Mike Tyson
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See also
* Seven hills (disambiguation)
References
Geography of Henderson, Nevada
Planned communities in Clark County, Nevada
Gated communities in Nevada
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