North Edinburg’s housing boom accelerates as La Sienna adds 233 homes
Heavy machinery prepares land for two new Esperanza Homes subdivisions inside the La Sienna master-planned community in north Edinburg. Photo Credit | Naxiely López-Puente.

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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