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Traffic piles up on FM 407 in Argyle, Texas, on June 8, 2026.<\/p>\n
Elvis Martinez-Cartagena<\/p>\n
FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM<\/p>\n
Tens of thousands of new homes, sprawling retail centers and competing grocery stores are reshaping the roughly 15-mile stretch of Interstate 35W between Tarrant County and Denton. Longtime residents of small towns like Justin, Argyle and Northlake are watching pastures give way to master-planned subdivisions in one of the nation\u2019s fastest-growing regions.<\/p>\n
Here are key takeaways:<\/p>\n
Roughly 20,000 homes are planned along I-35W from Denton to Flower Mound, and work began this month on Cole Ranch, a 4,365-home, 3,100-acre community valued at $5 billion<\/a> with home sales expected to begin in late 2027.Hillwood unveiled Landmark, a 3,200-acre development with 6,000 homes, 3,000 apartments and 900 acres of commercial space<\/a> in southern Denton County, with model homes for the first 747-home phase opening in the spring.Argyle signed an agreement with R.Y. Properties to build Heritage, a 123-acre retail development at Robson Ranch Road and I-35W<\/a> anchored by an innovative medical services hub and projected to generate $127 million in sales tax revenue.Hines and partners are developing Furst Ranch, a 1,300-home master-planned community with prices from $800,000 to over $2.5 million<\/a> across three neighborhoods between Flower Mound, Bartonville and Argyle.Luxury builder Tradition Homes broke ground in the High Plains neighborhood of Furst Ranch with homes starting at $1.2 million in the Argyle school district<\/a>, with a next phase planned for the Cross Timbers neighborhood in 2028 on one- and two-acre lots.Denton will join Frisco as one of the only Metroplex communities with two H-E-B stores, as the grocer plans to begin construction on a 119,000-square-foot store at 2210 W. University Drive in spring 2026<\/a>.Justin\u2019s population jumped more than 50% between 2011 and 2021 and demographers expect it to roughly double by 2030<\/a>, straining infrastructure as the city tries to balance growth with preservation of its rural character.Denton\u2019s population of 169,431 is projected to reach 229,192 by 2040<\/a>, according to the Denton 2040 Comprehensive Plan, fueling demand along the I-35W corridor.The Argyle retail project sits near a future H-E-B and is drawing interest from big-box retailers like Target, Costco or Lowe\u2019s, with construction starting next year and retailers arriving in 2027<\/a>.<\/p>\n The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists. The source reporting referenced above was written and edited entirely by journalists.<\/p>\n This story was originally published June 30, 2026 at 3:30 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traffic piles up on FM 407 in Argyle, Texas, on June 8, 2026. Elvis Martinez-Cartagena FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-356334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}