Loma Colorado, Pulte Homes' best-selling master planned community near Albuquerque, New Mexico, recently won the prestigious Innovation in Planning Award from the New Mexico Chapter of the American Planning Association (NMAPA). At its Annual Statewide Conference in Ruidoso in October, the NMAPA presented this honor to the Loma Colorado Development Team of Pulte Homes, Consensus Planning, RVi Planning + Landscape Architecture + Graphic Design, and Bohannan Huston, Inc. This month, Principal Mark Smith discusses the community's planning and design innovations that make this an outstanding community. Read more
2008 has been an exciting year for RVi's Houston office. The addition of Project Director Chris Patterson in early 2008, and the promotion of Kolby Davidson to Project Director, has brought substantial growth over the last year. With two new team members on the way, we've outgrown our local offices and next month, we'll be moving to a larger space. The new office is nestled in the Briar Hollow neighborhood in the Galleria area, just inside Loop 610 and just north of San Felipe. If you're in the neighborhood, stop by 19 Briar Hollow Lane in Houston, Texas 77027, and take a look at RVi's new digs.
This fall marked RVi's 26th anniversary and the Annual RVi Retreat. This year the journey was close to home as all of RVi loaded onto a bus to visit our Central Texas projects. The first leg of the journey led south to Buda and a discussion with the Buda Economic Development Corporation Director, Warren Ketteman, and Director of Parks Programming, Jake Eason (both pictured left) at the Buda Sportsplex. From there the wheels rolled on to Blanco Vista, a Carma Texas community, and then back up to the Triangle in Austin for lunch and a tour with Cencor Realty President Tom Terkel. After lunch, the team headed to Catellus's Mueller for a talk with Matt Whelan and Ian Dietrich. The day ended with the annual company T-shirt competition on the balcony of the Stephen F. Austin downtown. Dennis Tonsor was this year's winner with a throw-back theme to 80s film noir.
