Kittyhawk Airport to become 229-home development

Kittyhawk Airport may have already seen its final flight, but developers are confident the 70 acre plot on which it sits can grow wings of its own as an upscale development.

JPGL Capital LP of Dallas recently purchased the site with an eye toward transforming it into The Landing, a neighborhood of 229 homes.

David Hicks, an Allen property broker who represents the owners of the Twin Creeks development, helped bring the deal to fruition. He said the homes, which will be in the $400,000 range, should be in hot demand considering their close proximity to schools, shopping centers and State Highway 121.

"I think [the appeal] is certainly its location in the city of Allen, which is highly coveted due to the excellent schools there, and the safety of the community and the attributes of Allen that make it highly desirable," he said.

Kittyhawk was established in 1971 by a Braniff Airlines pilot and two partners, who envisioned it as a place where up to eight homeowners could have homes, hangars and a shared landing strip in one convenient location. That model is more or less what exists there today, though fewer and fewer planes had been taking off and landing in the years leading up to the sale of the land.

"We kind of had an eye on Kittyhawk for some time," Hicks said. "For the last 10 years or so, you've got a group of owners that were practically flying in and out of there and they had no interest in selling. During that time, the neighborhoods to the north and south and east and west started developing, but you're kind of to a point where only a couple of the 10 homeowners are still flying and at a time now where there's a demand for single-family lots in Allen."

After purchasing the property, completing the rezoning process and purchasing 3.5 acres from Allen ISD for an entrance near Cheatham Elemenatry School, builders are ready to begin the process of building the neighborhood. All of the lots have already been spoken for, with approximately 50 percent purchased by Pulte Homes and 50 percent purchased by Grand Homes.

Lot construction and demolition of the current buildings is scheduled for next month, and streets and utilities are six to eight months out, Hicks said.

Some residents opposed to the AISD bus service center scheduled for construction to the immediate south of the facility have expressed concern that the facility could lessen property values at the new lots. Hicks, however, said he has no such fears, anticipating the facility will be "state-of-the-art."

"The general development plan calls for screening in between this neighborhood and the land for the south as generally called for in the Allen Land Development Code, but also the plans from day one for the service center have always been for natural landscaping, screening and berming from Watters Road, Bray Central and Bossy Boots," he said.

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