The Heritage Creekside development in central Plano, located at the intersection of the President George Bush Turnpike and Custer Road, is finally taking shape with a focus on incorporating the property’s natural environment. 

The development will include apartments, office space, retail, and restaurants. Pittman Creek will be the project’s focal point, running through 13 acres on the 156-acre site. 

The community emphasizes the surrounding environment, aiming to restore and stabilize the existing creeks and tributaries on site. The community will also incorporate green building practices. 

The plot of land, owned by Rosewood Property Company for more than 40 years, has been vacant and covered in wildflowers for decades. The company held out for developers who envisioned a more organic community feel for the land, instead of turning it into offices and parking lots. Rosewood wanted to make Pittman Creek a centerpiece of the development, so they hired a reputed rock sculptor from California to make the eroding creek rock look like natural limestone.

Three restaurants with patios will overlook the creek. Two of those restaurants are the Rodeo Goat Ice House and Shannon Wynne’s Flying Fish, which will both open later this year. 

The $1 billion Heritage Creekside project will be completed over the course of the next decade. Plans are to maintain a sense of nature throughout the development. Since only five percent of the land in Plano remains undeveloped, Rosewood hopes to develop this plot of land in a mindful and sustainable way that incorporates the natural landscape.