With McCord Development’s announcement yesterday we learned groundbreaking will begin soon on Redemption Square at Generation Park located at Beltway 8 between Lockwood Dr. and West Lake Houston Pkwy.

Redemption Square (formally referred to by McCord Development as the S.Pa) will be a 52 acre mixed-use lifestyle center featuring top class office space, hotel, residential, retail and park space.

This project will be very important to the Lake Houston Area because it will ensure the LHA’s ability to remain competitive for younger talent and older home owners desiring to downsize by equipping our region of Houston with high quality amenities that for so long have been lacking in the community, such as urban style housing options, quality designed public open space, Class A office space and high end retail.

For information and a gallery of renderings, check Paul Takahashi’s Houston Business Journal report.

The Lake Houston Area Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Partnership work very hard to unite and promote the Lake Houston Area and the work is paying off.

The businesses, housing, schools, churches and non-profit organizations in our community are some of the most genuine and hard working folks you will find across Greater Houston.

The Lake Houston Area is world class and that is something that the price of oil or any other outside factor will never be able to change or diminish.

As news of job and business losses and glut of overbuilt real estate projects makes headlines in other parts of Houston, in LHA our headlines are full of small business owners to Fortune 500 companies opening up and expanding along with a school district ranked tops in the state and new housing growth that is neither over priced or overbuilt.

With new Class-A commercial projects like Generation Park’s 52 acre mixed-use lifestyle center Redemption Square, Westlake Marketplace, Kingwood Main Street and Valley Ranch Town Center the LHA continues to build and further develop a community that is truly world class.

LHA is home to the second largest and busiest airport in Texas, one of the fastest growing school districts in the state and some of the largest and fastest growing retail and residential hubs in the Houston area.

For more, read Bryan Kirk’s Houston Chronicle story, Northeast Houston sees ‘tremendous growth’.