Hillwood Launches “Treehouse” Community Near Fort Worth

Ross Perot Jr.’s Hillwood Communities has launched a treehouse-inspired community near the Alliance master-planned development in Fort Worth.

The Dallas-based firm started construction on Treeline, an 800-acre project in Justin that’s slated for 2,500 single-family homes, parks, an elementary school, commercial space and a slew of amenities, the Dallas Morning News reported.

The first batch of homes will be available for sale by mid-2025, and prices are expected to range from roughly $400,000 to $550,000. Several prominent builders, including American Legend Homes, D.R. Horton, HistoryMaker Homes and Tri Pointe Homes, are lined up to construct over 700 residences as part of the first phase. Lot sizes will range from 40 to 60 feet wide.

Hillwood has owned parts of the property, south of FM407 and near State Highway 114, since the 1980s, when it began developing master-planned communities in the area. The firm’s first Fort Worth community, Park Glen, was delivered in the late ’80s, featuring 3,000 homes. Hillwood’s other nearby projects, such as Pecan Square and Harvest, were some of the nation’s top-selling master-planned communities halfway through 2023, the outlet reported, citing RCLCO Real Estate Consulting.

Treeline has already gained heavy interest from prospective buyers, shedding light on Fort Worth’s explosive real estate boom across all sectors.

“It took nearly no time to fill up our list of builders,” Hillwood president Fred Balda told the outlet. “There’s just more demand than supply, and I should say, more demand for quality, good neighborhoods. Treeline will be an extension of what we’ve done in that corridor.”

Treeline will have amenities such as an indoor event space, amphitheater lawn, pickleball courts, a food truck lane, a pool and an adventure park.

Inspired by the surrounding mature oak trees and a flowing creek, the community will have a “treehouse-inspired” theme, with designs like a “library treehouse” and a “cloud spotting and stargazing treehouse.”

—Quinn Donoghue