We aim to forge a collection of welcoming communities in the rolling hills of San Jacinto County just north of Houston—expansive ranches and old-fashioned, walkable towns nestled into the productive fields, forests, and natural landmarks of the area’s uniquely attractive landscape.

Our vision at San Jacinto Ranch is to build beautiful places, and the scale of our large landholdings means we can plan things out in a way that just isn’t possible otherwise. Our goal is to spend the next few generations creating vibrant, walkable, real communities amidst wonderful landscapes with great homes and jobs for hard-working people. Our ideal of old-fashioned towns also means that we are able to dedicate 60 percent of the overall land for cattle, agriculture, silviculture, natural preserves, and other open spaces.

We are passionate about the region’s rich natural landscapes and preserving our deep agrarian heritage to promote a higher quality of life. We hope to create some of the most beautiful and admired places in Texas.

What makes San Jacinto Ranch unique is we “start with the land” and our large land holdings mean we can dedicate 60 percent of our acreage to productive agriculture, open plazas, public spaces, and natural conservation. The remaining 40 percent of San Jacinto Ranch will be transformed into walkable towns, villages, hamlets and commercial areas, with high-quality infrastructure. We recognize that people today want the health benefits, recreational opportunities, sense of community, and well-being that come with living in a beautiful natural environment.

San Jacinto Ranch is a family affair. Greg Alexander and his daughter Josie work with a team of accomplished industry leaders in forestry, conservation, architecture, and town planning. We are a group of passionate people who love to learn and want to create beautiful places for people to live. We all start with the land, love the outdoors, and have a dream of helping our favorite areas embrace the change and handle the growth that is coming without losing their compelling rural character.

San Jacinto Ranch’s landholdings total over 60,000 acres in the region. We have worked hard first to study, visit, and understand – and then to acquire and reassemble – numerous historic forestry tracts in San Jacinto County that had been divided up and sold off over generations. Scale is the key to countering the region-wide tendency toward sprawl in terms of widening roads, strip centers, parking lots, and traffic lights. Without scale, it’s nearly impossible to protect the rural character of a place and to preserve ranches, farms, and forests.

To us, “walkability” should mean how easily people can get to useful destinations by foot, if they want to. Walkable places usually mean more walking and less driving—walking to school, church, work, and so on. Walkable usually means more friends in the neighborhood and a stronger sense of belonging and satisfaction. Within our communities, we will work hard to make it easy to get around whether by walking, biking, golf carts or other such conveyances, including horses.

Greg has been collecting well-located timberland for over 20 years. After decades of driving around the American South—watching forests, orange groves, and grasslands be replaced with ever-widening roads, strip centers, parking lots and traffic lights—he developed an idea for a completely different way of handling growth. There had to be a way to create vibrant, walkable places to live that align with nature and avoid the endless sprawl. Since then, he has assembled a world-class team with deep experience designing and building beautiful places in Texas and around the country. For example, we are collaborating with Dream Golf/Sandborn on Old Shores in Florida, including a walkable Scottish-style village. Check out our Team page for more information.

No. San Jacinto Ranch will be an accessible collection of beautiful towns and communities set among the rolling hills of San Jacinto County. We are planning and designing for a broad range of Texans in all phases of life and also hope that folks will come from all over to experience San Jacinto Ranch.

Our dream at San Jacinto Ranch is to create amenity-rich towns with convenient access to nature and enjoyable activities that tie our communities together. Picture late afternoon walks and bike rides along miles of tree-canopied trails, horseback rides through active timberlands or natural forests, growing fresh produce and flowers in community gardens, a Saturday fun-run or competitive marathon, dirt biking with friends, holiday parades, hunting, fishing, concerts, and much more. Our landholdings and core commitment to preserve so much forest and green space offer endless opportunities — and we can’t wait for our residents to add to the list.

No! San Jacinto Ranch is just over an hour from downtown Houston and 45 minutes from George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) and The Woodlands. San Jacinto Ranch can offer a new way of life away from the sprawl and endless traffic, a weekend getaway, a day trip to enjoy the beauty of the rolling hills, a boat ride on massive Lake Livingston, or a sunset dinner overlooking the hills and lake.

No. Please see the rest of this website, which describes who we are, our vision, and what we aim to accomplish.

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We are inspired by many places in Texas! These include the Heights in Houston; the Historic Pearl in San Antonio; the Fort Worth Stockyards; the Strand in Galveston; Gruene dance hall; the fascinating natural landscape of the Hill Country; Wimberley, Round Top, New Braunfels; and historic main streets in many places from Nacogdoches to Conroe to Coldspring.