The retail center would be built next to the Cendera Ranch community, where Lennar is selling homes for between $322,999 and $501,999, according to the builder’s website.
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The land owned by homebuilder Lennar Corp. could be converted into a retail center anchored by a grocery store near where the company is building homes in north Fort Worth.
The Fort Worth Zoning Board on July 10 recommended approval of a request by Michael Clark, president of civil engineering firm Winkelman & Associates, to rezone 20 acres at the northeast corner of Sendera Ranch Boulevard and Rancho Canyon Way to general commercial use. It is currently zoned for medium-density residential use.
The changes would allow for a shopping center anchored by a grocery store and a gas station nearby, according to the application. The new zoning would allow for a total of 122,912 square feet of development.
The rezoning request will next go to the Fort Worth City Council, where a vote could take place on Aug. 13.
The land is owned by LNR AIV LLC, according to the application, and the application lists email contact information for Annie Hepner, Lennar’s title manager.
The retail center would be built next to the Cendera Ranch community, where Lennar is selling homes for $322,999 to $501,999, according to the builder’s website.
Lennar declined to comment, but Clark said at the commission meeting that he and his client are working with Lennar on the project.
“My client is under contract to build a shopping center with a grocery store anchored on the northeast corner of these two major intersections, which I think is much needed,” he said.
Clark did not disclose the names of his clients and did not respond to requests for comment.
Spanning more than 3,000 acres, Cendera Ranch is planned for about 6,000 single-family homes, according to the Cendera Ranch Homeowners Association website. The community is near the fast-growing Haslet and Alliance neighborhoods. Haslet’s population is expected to grow an estimated 31 percent from 2022 to 2023, according to a report by the North Central Texas Council of Governments.
