Business Maverick: It’s Billionaire Versus Salamanders in Fight Over Austin’s Boom

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A billionaire seeking to build a resort with luxury homes in the Texas Hill Country is facing off against neighbors opposed to development on environmental grounds, highlighting the growing tensions as the region’s economic surge fuels a boom outside ...

Representatives for Winn, who is based in Dallas, are mum about the project’s total cost, the average size of the homes that will be built and the prices it plans to charge. When it’s complete, the development is set to have 40 residential homes, along with a 71-room hotel, 30 resort residences and an event barn. A restaurant will incorporate ingredients grown on site, a nod to New York’s well regarded farm-to-table restaurant Blue Hill at Stone Barns.

“This iconic landscape, filled with natural beauty and heritage-rich rural communities, is facing tremendous threats from sprawling growth and development,” the Texas Hill Country Conservation Network said in a 2022 Adams holds the nest of an endangered Golden Cheeked Warbler. Photographer: Jordan Vonderhaar/Bloomberg

Adams now feels betrayed by Winn’s plans to develop the land. “You say this is a cathedral to you, and yet you are willing to do something that could totally desecrate it,” he lamented. On its website, Mirasol Springs labels itself as a “conservation-scale development” designed to serve as a model on how to embrace and preserve the natural landscape of the Texas Hill Country. There are plans to build a field station to be used by University of Texas classes studying birds, native plants, insects and aquatic biology.

 

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