ArtHouse, the mixed-use development in Keller Town Center, is adding nine tenants.

The tenant mix is a collection of boutique shops that are not national chains. They include art shops, salons, a home decorating business and gift shops.

Nashville-based Southern Land Co. has entered the world of corporate blogging in a different way.

The company has hired a reporter to write about the real estate market and housing trends on a separate Web site from its own. The site address is www.whatsforreal.com.

D Magazine rates Keller as the number 9 suburb in Texas because of home prices and cool projects like ArtHouse.

Nationally acclaimed fine art school, Monart, will open its doors for the first time in the State of Texas on March 6, 2008 in Keller Town Center. Monart has leased space in Arthouse, a dynamic new mixed-use community developed by Southern Land Company which recently opened in Keller in the fall of 2007. Monart is Arthouse’s first commercial tenant.

In this edition of the NAI Nashville Market Report podcast, I spoke with Timothy Downey the President and CEO of the Southern Land Company about their new mixed-use development in the Cool Springs area called McEwen.

Local builder Bruce Hancock has always been interested in using energy-efficient technology in the homes he builds. When he started drawing up plans for his own home, he met with a heating and cooling engineer who mentioned a word he hadn't heard before: geothermal. When the engineer used the phrase "save over 50 percent in electricity costs," Hancock had heard enough. He was in.

On February 4, Southern Exposure Magazine and Franklinis.com held a banquet for all of the 2007 Sizzle Award finalists. Southern Land Company was voted Best Builder/Developer in Williamson County for the second year in a row. With the amount of growth and development in this county, it is a huge honor to be named the best.

When planning for Westhaven was under way, Southern Land Co. spokesman Jim Cheney was tasked with coming up with unique street names for the community. He drew his inspiration from his personal interest: literature. Soon, streets with names such as Kerouac, Tennyson and Yeats will be home to Westhaven residents.

Former Southlake residents Martha and Doug Turner are giddy about their new apartment in Arthouse, Keller Town Center's latest mixed-use development.

Mixed-use community in Keller lands innovative drawing school for children. Monart School chooses Arthouse as its first home in Texas.