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Parkway Villages is a 577-lot,〔"(Completed )" ((Archive )) Sueba USA. Retrieved on May 1, 2014.〕 subdivision in western Houston, Texas.〔Bivins, Ralph. "(Bivins: German group adds to its influence in west Houston )." ''Houston Chronicle''. February 24, 2002. Retrieved on April 30, 2014.〕 It is located north of Lakes of Parkway, the former Barnhardt land tract.〔Bivins, Ralph. "Sueba USA acquires land for housing." ''Houston Chronicle''. Thursday June 24, 1993. Business p. 1. Available from NewsBank, Record Number: 06 *24 *1137595. Anyone with a Houston Public Library card may read this article over the internet.〕 It was the first single family housing development by Sueba USA,〔Stuart, Lettice. "(Subdivisions for Houston's Ghostly Business Parks )." ''The New York Times''. October 10, 1993. Retrieved on April 30, 2014.〕 a subsidiary of Süba Freie Baugesellschaft,〔Bivins, Ralph. "Sueba on the move - Developer plans five new projects this year." ''Houston Chronicle''. Sunday June 27, 1993. Business p. 6. Available from NewsBank, Record Number: 06 *27 *1137991. Anyone with a Houston Public Library card may read this article over the internet.〕 ==History== The project's development began in 1993.〔 It was developed in a joint venture between Sueba USA and Hypo Bank of Munich. It was built in an area that was originally supposed to have a office park. That office park, which had been developed for about $70 million,〔 was not built due to the 1980s oil bust. Michael Baldwin of Sueba stated that originally, the buyers of houses in Parkway Village were retirees.〔Feser, Katherine. "Unusual luck created cluster of gated villages." ''Houston Chronicle''. Sunday August 24, 2003. Retrieved on April 30, 2014.〕 The original plan called for 464 lots.〔 From February to October 1993, the first 43 houses in the development were sold.〔 Ralph Bivins of the ''Houston Chronicle'' wrote that this subdivision "was key to Sueba's winning the Developer of the Year award from the Greater Houston Builders Association."〔 By 2002 the building of houses was almost complete. In 2002 Bivins stated that Lakes of Parkway was "one of the largest communities to be developed inside city limits in recent years."〔 Development of houses in the subdivision ended in 2003.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Parkway Villages, Houston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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