When Armando Saenz built his home in The Woodlands last year, the Houston radiologist thought that elevating his foundation, air-conditioning units and backup generator three and a half feet above the ground was “a little bit overdone.”
However, the developer, The Howard Hughes Corp. (NYSE: HHC), and the homebuilder, Frankel Building Group, required all 55 homes in The Woodlands Reserve be built on raised pier-and-beam foundations. While The Woodlands Reserve is not in the 100-year floodplain, the gated section sits just west of Spring Creek, which can overflow its banks during heavier rainstorms…Read More
Author: Paul Takahashi for Houston Business Journal
Photo: David J. Phillip/AP