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With a unique blend of creativity and business acumen, Joe Rentfro, the visionary Managing Director at Thomas Ranch, drives groundbreaking projects in the real estate landscape.
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Through Collaboration with AT&T, Austin’s Thomas Ranch Will Offer 2 GIG Community-Wide Baseline Speeds Across the Entire 2,250-acre Master Plan.
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A new private residential golf community outside of Austin is setting a high bar with their responsible luxury approach to development and design.
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Loraloma is designed to naturally integrate itself into the breathtaking scenery that surrounds it. Beauty like this needs to be seen to truly understand it.
FORBES
Scotsman David McClay-Kidd, the son of a golf course superintendent who went on to become one of the biggest names in course design, is leaving his indelible mark on the rolling terrain of the Texas Hill Country.
Article
They crafted guidelines for contractors, specifying low-emission materials to ensure minimal carbon output. Loraloma was their first project to successfully apply low-carbon strategies throughout the design process.
Golf
Bandon Dunes designer David McLay-Kidd is well known for his minimalistic golf course design, working with the site he’s given rather than moving mountains of dirt to create something new.
Austin Business Journal
The first phase of Thomas Ranch, a 2,200-acre community near Spicewood, is set to begin June 15. Opportunities abound for builders and commercial real estate pros. Also included with this report: ABJ’s latest ranking of local custom homebuilders.
Austin Business Journal
3,500 + homes and 250,000 square feet of retail space for a mix of local vendors and nationally recognized brands are coming to beautiful Hill Country.
Culturemap Austin
Thomas Ranch is bringing a diverse array of housing options at various price points, plus 40-plus miles of trails for hiking and biking, two miles of river frontage, community gardens, and a destination farm.
Austin American Statesman
Thomas Ranch is paving the way for a more integrated plan to support Austin’s inevitable growth better. Planned features include a downtown core, hotel, private lakefront community, and members-only golf course.
Kxan
2,200 acres in Spicewood, just west of Austin, will soon be bustling with rooftops and amenities, providing thousands of jobs from engineering to hospitality.
Austin Business Journal
The first phase of Thomas Ranch, a 2,200-acre community near Spicewood, is set to begin June 15. Opportunities abound for builders and commercial real estate pros. Also included with this report: ABJ’s latest ranking of local custom homebuilders.
Culturemap Austin
Four months after receiving approval from Travis County for initial plans, development has broken ground on a new private residential community in Thomas Ranch outside Austin.
LUX EXPOSÉ
Lux Exposé highlights Loraloma’s experiential approach to home-buying.
Forbes
Arete Collective’s CEO, Rebecca Buchan, joins the conversation on new trends in luxury development. Learn how our new way of development is shaping a new way of life within Loraloma at Thomas Ranch, an Areté development just outside Austin, Texas.
Haute Residence
Areté Collective, in collaboration with its sales partner IMI Worldwide Properties, introduces Loraloma, a private community in the Hill Country near Austin, Texas. Loraloma, which translates to “lore of the hills,” is pioneering a fresh lifestyle that prioritizes appreciating the land’s natural beauty and redefines contemporary life values.
Club + Resort Business
Loraloma—whose name translates as “lore of the hills”—is pioneering a new way of living outside Austin, Texas that is focused on respecting the natural beauty of the land and redefining the priorities of life today.
LUX EXPOSÉ
Loraloma, an exclusive luxury private residential community and golf club nestled in Austin’s picturesque Lake Travis area, has just launched sales.
Kvue ABC
The first homes are going up for sale at a luxury community being developed at Thomas Ranch, near Spicewood.
Austin American Statesman
Twenty-five initial lots are up for sale at Loraloma with a starting price of $1.6 million. Loraloma is part of the 2,200-acre luxury community Thomas Ranch under development near Spicewood.
Community Impact
While many areas in the Hill Country are built out, including West Lake Hills and Rollingwood, the Lake Travis area still has many high-end residential real estate developments in the works.
News
With a unique blend of creativity and business acumen, Joe Rentfro, the visionary Managing Director at Thomas Ranch, drives groundbreaking projects in the real estate landscape.