A key part of the dream that has become Craig Ranch includes a comprehensive package of health, medicine, fitness, and wellness resources for residents of all ages and in all conditions. When medical attention is needed, Craig Ranch residents don’t have to travel far to get state-of-the-art care. In addition to an abundance of private practices crossing a wide range of medical and dental specialties, major medical and surgical facilities are easily accessible. When evaluating master planned communities in McKinney, be sure to ask about the medical facilities in the neighborhood and surrounding area.
The Hospital at Craig Ranch is a multi-specialty, 120,000-square-foot hospital with a 60,000-square-foot medical office building facility and parking garage. The hospital opened in 2009 with 7 operating suites, 19 pre- and post-operative beds, 4 intensive care units (ICS), a 24-hour emergency suite (ER), and 20 private rooms.
The Medical Center & Surgery Center at Craig Ranch is a 50,000-square-foot healthcare delivery center with a day surgery center, surgeon offices, Baylor Diagnostic Imaging section, and other medical services in an upscale boutique facility. Comprehensive women’s healthcare services are provided in the 20,819-square-foot Craig Ranch OB/GYN Center.
The most recent addition to the Craig Ranch medical community is the Texas Health Outpatient Center Craig Ranch, established by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Allen. The 20,000-square-foot outpatient center offers customized diagnostic and images services and a staff of certified health-care professional. A variety of cardiac imaging and diagnostic tests are available at the center, including a 64-slice computed tomography (CT) scanner. Capturing 192 images per second, the CT scanner reconstructs an image, clearly showing small bones, surrounding tissues and even blood vessels. Additional services include bone densitometry, digital mammography, digital X-ray and ultrasound. Texas Health Craig Ranch is also home to a new outpatient rehabilitation program. Services include physical therapy, with cardiac rehab and pulmonary rehab beginning in November. The therapy area will include private treatment rooms and a rehab gym.
These leading edge resources are all part of the self-sustaining environment that is Craig Ranch.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
New Urban Lifestyle in Craig Ranch, Master Planned Community McKinney TX
City or suburb? More and more people are saying they want the benefits of both—and they’re discovering that and more at Craig Ranch; a master planned community in McKinney just minutes from the Dallas metroplex.
New Urbanism recognizes walkable, human-scaled neighborhoods as the building blocks of sustainable communities and regions. The design of streets, buildings, and transportation choices allows for frequent and meaningful encounters between people, recreating a sense of community that faded during the decades when cities sprawled and suburbs flourished.
Craig Ranch takes New Urbanism a step beyond by casting essential elements into a community designed from the ground up outside an existing urban setting. This vision is playing out on a fresh slate amid the rolling hills of McKinney, Texas, just 30 minutes north of Dallas. The idea was to combine the essential elements of community, work-life balance, and healthy lifestyle opportunities, into a self-sustaining environment with a twist: The bold centerpiece of the TPC Craig Ranch private golf course. A second world-class venue, the renowned Cooper Fitness Center & Spa at Craig Ranch, is located adjacent to the golf course, offering health, fitness and spa services.
Just off Town Center, home sites to the north and offices to the south suggest a daily cross pattern as locals traverse to and from the employment district designed for today’s growth-oriented businesses. Craig Ranch, with AT&T, has installed an advanced communications infrastructure to ensure that the technology is readily available to meet the needs of Craig Ranch’s vision. A new private hospital is part of a booming medical district.
Housing choices include low-maintenance townhomes, condominiums, apartments, modest single-family and empty-nester homes and luxury homes built on half and full-acre lots in a gated community.
Recreational opportunities abound. The Ballfields at Craig Ranch host local, regional and national competitions ranging from select baseball and softball leagues and tournaments to the elite amateur play of the Texas Collegiate Baseball League. McKinney Soccer has 13 lighted, regulation-size soccer fields just to the east of The Ballfields at Craig Ranch. The Beach at Craig Ranch features premium sand volleyball courts—4 full-size beach soccer fields, or 12 beach tennis courts. The property also includes a portion of a six cities trail plan which offers a pedestrian-friendly environment.
Throughout the property, Texas-inspired art and sculpture dot the landscape, from dramatic cascading waterfalls to the various western bronze statues encountered along the pathways and greenbelts. A sense of place, a purpose for everything, Craig Ranch in McKinney TX is a master planned community for all time.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
The Residences at Grand Lodge | Robb Report Exceptional Properties
These gated two-and three-story ultra-luxurious greenside lodgehomes offer exquisite architecture, private elevators and multi-level patios with breathtaking' panoramic views of award winning TPC Craig Ranch course located in McKinney, Texas— recently ranked by Money Magazine as one of the top 5 “Best Places to Live” in America and Forbes Magazine as one of the Top 10 “Best Places to Move”. Build your dreams from a blank canvas starting at 1.1 million with custom floorplans from 3,700 to 5,400 SF. Live the dream with these exclusive privileges; TPC membership, fitness membership, personalized golf cart and private direct access to the course.
Crape Myrtle Trails of McKinney in Craig Ranch
Craig Ranch, the city of McKinney and the Crape Myrtle Trails of McKinney Foundation will break ground at 5 p.m. today on Crape Myrtle World Collection Park. http://mckinneyblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/09/groundbreaking-today-for-crape.html
Monday, September 27, 2010
Craig Ranch: New Homes & Healthy Active Lifestyle in McKinney TX
New Urbanism is about more than just having things close by so you can avoid using your car—it’s about a wide range of housing and job types and wide open opportunities for innovative recreational expression. Craig Ranch’s amazing combination of sports venues, parks, trails, golf, and the renowned Cooper Fitness Center & Spa gives this community an exceptional appeal. If you are searching for a new home or home for sale in a master planned community in the Dallas/McKinney area, Craig Ranch has beautiful homes and an amazing lifestyle to offer.
Whether you’re a world-class athlete, someone who just likes to go for a nice walk every now and then, or you fall somewhere in between, Craig Ranch will meet your needs.
Here’s a brief overview of the spectacular facilities residents enjoy daily:
- TPC Craig Ranch private golf course, designed by Tom Weiskopf. The par 72 course skillfully engages the beautiful, gently rolling hills and mature woods surrounding the limestone banks of Rowlett Creek.
- Cooper Fitness Center & Spa at Craig Ranch. Established in 2006 by “father of aerobics” Dr. Kenneth Cooper and his son, Dr. Tyler Cooper, the 75,000-square-foot health and fitness complex offers an array of exercise classes, personal trainers, Olympic-size pool, outdoor track, state-of-the-art equipment, and youth programs to meet the needs of individuals, families, and corporate clients.
- Michael Johnson Performance Center. A state-of-the-art indoor and outdoor training center founded by 4-time Olympic Gold medalist, 9-time World Champion, and world record holder Michael Johnson.
- Dr Pepper StarCenter McKinney at Craig Ranch. The new facility has two sheets of ice, a full-service pro shop, a snack bar, and four party/meeting rooms to serve youth and adult hockey as well as general ice skating for the public.
All this, plus an abundance of parks, ball fields, soccer fields, and fitness trails, as well as The Beach at Craig Ranch, a premier athletic facility for beach sports like beach volleyball, beach tennis, and beach soccer.
Residents use the facilities on their own, in groups, and at planned events designed to complement healthy, active lifestyles for all ages in a close-knit community.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Thursday, September 16, 2010
McKinney Ranked 5 in Money Magazine’s Top 100 Best Places to Live
Money Magazine’s 2010 List of America’s Best Small Cities ranks McKinney, Texas as number 5. It’s not surprising to the folks who live there and know about McKinney’s affordable homes, low crime rate, good jobs, and beautiful downtown—but the recognition is a source of pride.
Money’s research and analysis included financial issues (purchasing power and cost of living); housing; education (student performance and educational opportunities); quality of life (environmental issues, crime rates, worker commute times); leisure and culture (museums, entertainment, restaurants, bars, golf courses, etc.); weather; and population demographics.
McKinney's tree-filled communities are surrounded by ponds, parks, and hiking trails. Though growth over the past decade has been rapid, it has been planned with care so the beauty and charm of the area remain intact.
One of McKinney’s centerpieces is Craig Ranch, an award-winning 2,200-acre urban mixed-use, master-planned community that borders Frisco, Allen, and Plano, and is minutes from State Highway 121/Sam Rayburn Tollway. Craig Ranch is a classic example of “new urbanism”—the concept of a livable, sustainable community that blends residential, commercial, and resort-quality recreational amenities into a defined urban community.
Pedestrian-friendly narrow streets and wide walkways are reminiscent of an earlier American time when people relished the corner store and public squares that brought them together. In the unique community of Craig Ranch, all residential areas are connected to the Town Center, parks, amenities and retail establishments by an extensive trail system designed to reduce the use of automobiles. Those trails also connect to the regional Six-Cities Trail system, which is a network of biking and fitness trails. For those who prefer not to walk or bike, the vintage Craig Ranch Trolley Bus shuttles residents and guests around the community.
McKinney was also rated as one of the top ten best places to move by Forbes Magazine. If you are looking for a new home for sale in the Dallas metro area, we invite you to call or click to learn more about Craig Ranch.
Money’s research and analysis included financial issues (purchasing power and cost of living); housing; education (student performance and educational opportunities); quality of life (environmental issues, crime rates, worker commute times); leisure and culture (museums, entertainment, restaurants, bars, golf courses, etc.); weather; and population demographics.
McKinney's tree-filled communities are surrounded by ponds, parks, and hiking trails. Though growth over the past decade has been rapid, it has been planned with care so the beauty and charm of the area remain intact.
One of McKinney’s centerpieces is Craig Ranch, an award-winning 2,200-acre urban mixed-use, master-planned community that borders Frisco, Allen, and Plano, and is minutes from State Highway 121/Sam Rayburn Tollway. Craig Ranch is a classic example of “new urbanism”—the concept of a livable, sustainable community that blends residential, commercial, and resort-quality recreational amenities into a defined urban community.
Pedestrian-friendly narrow streets and wide walkways are reminiscent of an earlier American time when people relished the corner store and public squares that brought them together. In the unique community of Craig Ranch, all residential areas are connected to the Town Center, parks, amenities and retail establishments by an extensive trail system designed to reduce the use of automobiles. Those trails also connect to the regional Six-Cities Trail system, which is a network of biking and fitness trails. For those who prefer not to walk or bike, the vintage Craig Ranch Trolley Bus shuttles residents and guests around the community.
McKinney was also rated as one of the top ten best places to move by Forbes Magazine. If you are looking for a new home for sale in the Dallas metro area, we invite you to call or click to learn more about Craig Ranch.
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