FOR SALE: 129 acres near Collin-Hunt County line, County Road 1116, Merit, TX 75458, $516,000, MLS Listing # 10992029

Contact Beth Johnson, REALTOR^®, LEED AP, EcoBroker Certified™, Advocates Realty, 214.415.5089

Community:

Greenville:

It’s only 7.4 miles (about 12 mins.) from this property to Greenville with its 40 restaurants (steakhouse to Chinese), shopping (mall to antiques), 3 golf courses, and regional hospital. The county seat of growing Hunt County, Greenville has a population of 26,000 and is poised where the growth along the Hwy. 380 corridor from rapidly expanding McKinney meets the growth along Interstate 30.

With “It already feels like home” as its slogan to welcome new residents, Greenville is the kind of place that reveres its heritage with 30 historical markers and hosts quaint events with a home-town feel--from its Independence Day celebration with marching band parade, free all-you-can-eat watermelon feed, and fireworks extravaganza at the county fairgrounds, to a Yuletide party with lantern parade, marchers dressed in Victorian finery, horse-drawn wagon rides, and spectacular holiday lighting.

Yet Greenville is also a business hub to North Texas that straddles busy Interstate 30, accesses all major rail lines, has a large-jet airport and 2 industrial parks, and boasts 17,000 jobs at dozens of employers including 8 Fortune 500 companies.

Some Nearby Amenities/Activities:

• Saturday Market Days at the Farmers Market bring the best of local and regional harvests to the downtown Market Square.
• Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum and Audie Murphy Days celebrate the local WWII hero.
• Crossroads Mall is a 288,000 sq. ft. mall anchored by J.C. Penney, Staples, Beall's, Belks, and Goody's, with 16 additional specialty stores. The mall is the only enclosed regional shopping center on Interstate 30 between Dallas/Mesquite and Texarkana, Texas.
• Presbyterian Hospital of Greenville offers state-of-the-art 150-bed emergency and medical facilities, and its affiliation with Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas provides for efficient referrals and increased access to sophisticated diagnostic equipment. 10.4 mi. away.
• 6 golf courses are found within 4-14 miles from the center of Greenville, including one in Farmersville, 14 mins./9 mi. away from subject property.
• 7 lakes and premier recreation await only 14-62 miles away — boating and fishing, hiking, biking, horseback riding at public lands and Lakes Lavon, Tawakoni, Hubbard, Cooper, Lake Fork, Lewisville, Ray Roberts.
  
  
• McKinney — Downtown Square Historic District (100+ unique shops and restaurants), hiking trails, outdoor museum, state-of-the-art Performing Arts Center in the beautifully restored Collin County Courthouse, challenging golf courses. 27 mi. away.
• Rockwall — The Harbor Project is a new landmark facility for the City of Rockwall that provides a premier commercial and entertainment district and a permanent area for public enjoyment of the Lake Ray Hubbard shoreline. Twelve-screen cinema, upscale hotel, civic center, restaurants, shops, offices, public boardwalks, fountains, plazas, pedestrian walkways, public boat dock. Concert on the Lake series and other entertainment events. 32 mi. away.
• Downtown Dallas — dining, entertainment, pro sports, music venues, business and employment, shopping, historic buildings, Design District, InfoMart, and Dallas Arts District, the largest urban cultural district in the country. 60 mi. away.

Transportation/Employment:
 

• Greenville offers 17,000 jobs at dozens of employers including 8 Fortune 500 companies. Forty manufacturing firms employ 7,000 people.
• L-3 Communications Integrated Systems is the area’s largest employer, with approximately 4,000 people working in Greenville.

Schools:

• Bland Independent School District is a "Recognized" school district. Bland Elementary School achieved the highest possible rating, "Exemplary".
• Paris Junior College -- Greenville Center is the 14-year-old satellite center of the main institution in Paris, TX, that was founded in 1924 and offers Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, and Associate of Applied Science degrees, as well as certificates of completion in vocational and technical programs. At the Greenville Center, 1,200 students take 200 different academic and technical courses. July 2008 is the expected completion date for the first building of a multiphase Greenville campus expansion--a 39,000-sq.-ft., two-story building that will contain classrooms, a science lab, a computer lab, a library, a large meeting room that can also be used as a classroom, and administrative offices. 13 mi. away.
• Texas A&M University at Commerce is a regional state university with Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business and Technology, and Education, 200+ faculty members and approx. 8,000 students. 23 mi. away.