Cousins Ready to Woo Developers for 600-Acre Project Launch

LAS COLINAS, TX-Atlanta-based Cousins Properties will float RFPs in 30 days to would-be developers for a 200-acre first phase to a 600-acre undertaking in the northeast sector of tony Las Colinas.

Charles Cotten, Cousins’ senior vice president, tells GlobeSt.com that developers definitely should be on board within 60 days, driving a groundbreaking goal by the end of 2002 for the “live-work-play” project. The development, first announced in mid-January, still bears no name and no parameters for the number of single or multifamily residential units or sf of office and retail space. That will come after developers are selected, says Cotten. “We don’t need a name until we start selling it,” he said after Tuesday’s breakfast hosted by the North Texas Commercial Association of Realtors at the Las Colinas Marriott along Las Colinas Boulevard.

The New Urbanism project is under the guiding hand of Andres Duany, principal of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. of Miami. The Dallas office of Princeton, NJ-based Hillier Group is working with Duany to steer the project. Ft. Worth-based Carter Burgess is the project engineer.