November eNewsletter

Participants Celebrate Black Friday by Opting Outside

BY SARA ALTIERI

Last week marked the third year of the #OptOutsideWithRVi Challenge. We encouraged everyone to avoid the long, Black Friday check-out lines, supply chain issues, and inflation. Instead, we invited you to enjoy the outdoors and all that nature has to offer. How did you spend Black Friday?

For the challenge, we asked you to share your adventures with us by tagging us on social media. Names of participants were then entered to win our Outdoor Adventure Pack: a $100 REI gift card, 26 oz Yeti water bottle, a beanie, and a cooling towel.

Kicking up Dirt in Liberty Hill – Lariat Officially Breaks Ground

BY JULIE MASTERVICH

Last week kicked off the first phase groundbreaking for Lariat, a new 688-acre master planned community located in Liberty Hill, Texas from Randolph Texas Development. Designed around the intent of getting kids and families outside, Lariat will offer over 7 miles of trails and bring about 1,600 new homes to Liberty Hill when all is said and done, with phase one concentrating on about 1,063 lots. Three Municipal Utility Districts (MUDs) were created specifically for the project, bringing much needed water, sewage, drainage, and other utility-related services to the community. Developers are currently in the midst of civil construction, putting the necessary infrastructure in place including a brand-new wastewater treatment facility developed exclusively for the community.

An Urban Village in the Heart of Austin – Reflecting on 13 years at Mueller

BY CHRISTINA MARTIN

In November 2007, residents moved into the first houses of the new Mueller neighborhood, on the site of the former Robert Mueller Municipal Airport (RMMA) in Austin, Texas. Shortly thereafter, I joined them as another Mueller “pioneer.” We signed contracts without seeing any homes, without seeing all the parks, the shops…we signed on the strength of the plans and an idea about what the community could become. I did, however, have a little more advance knowledge about neighborhood design and planning than most, having worked on the RMMA project from the beginning.

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