Summa Corp. Plans ‘Villages’ Near Las Vegas

Preliminary plans have been unveiled for Summerlin, a 25,000-acre mixed-use development near Las Vegas where an estimated 250,000 people will live when the project is completed more than 40 years from now.

Summa Corp., the company founded by the late billionaire Howard Hughes, plans to build about 25 residential villages on the site, ranging from starter homes to estates. Del E. Webb has already begun building a 3,100-unit Sun City adult project on 1,050 acres of the Summa parcel.

A 40-acre preparatory school is also under construction and will open this fall.

Several recreational and cultural facilities, commercial complexes, schools and churches are also planned for the site, which stretches west from the existing urbanized area of Las Vegas Valley into the desert mountains. The 39-square-mile parcel is already in one of the fastest-growing parts of the country.