EDINBURG — The city’s largest master-planned community continues to expand north, with developers planning more than 230 new homes along Edinburg’s fast-growing corridor.
For more than two decades, Edinburg farmer-turned-developer Kent Burns has watched his vision for La Sienna take shape.
“Everything is finally growing in this direction,” Burns said Wednesday at a groundbreaking ceremony celebrating two new subdivisions within the 726-acre tract. “I think our time has come, and so we’re excited about it.”
La Sienna stretches along Interstate 2 and Monte Cristo Road and features a resaca-style waterway meant to attract commercial investment to its steadily growing residential core.
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Naxi Lopez-Puente
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Naxiely López, managing editor of the Rio Grande Valley Business Journal, is a veteran Valley journalist who reported and served as metro editor at The Monitor. She later led programs and partnerships at Mission EDC, giving her on-the-ground insight into regional growth. A Valley native raised in South Texas, she brings a deep working knowledge of how the RGV does business.
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