A cashstrapped Edinburg school board last month turned down an almost $6 million offer to buy 113.35 acres of school district land just north of Edinburg’s largest master-planned community to a developer associated with that project in hopes of getting a more lucrative offer.
On Sept. 2, the Edinburg board declined to sell that property to Rhodes Development, which wanted to turn it into low or moderate-income housing, and opted instead to list the property for bids.
That school district land on Davis Road in Edinburg sits about a mile east of Highway 281 and a little north of La Sienna, a sprawling upscale development that’s been gradually built over the course of the past two decades.
The developed parts of La Sienna make up perhaps a little less than half of a rough quadrangle of land running as much as a mile east of the expressway between Davis and Monte Cristo Roads.
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Matt Wilson
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Matt Wilson is a Hidalgo County–based freelance reporter and contributor to the Rio Grande Valley Business Journal. He previously covered education and general assignment for The Monitor, frequently writing about the dramatic ways business changed during the coronavirus pandemic. Before that he worked as a reporter in rural Central Texas where he covered everything from house fires to school board meetings.
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