The Woodlands current public art collection totals 49. This podcast features the first twenty.

The Woodlands continues as one of the bright spots in the housing market. As someone commented at a recent dinner party, “the name should be changed from The Woodlands to The Goodlands!” The context of this comment applied to the community, lifestyle, and real estate.

Visit The Woodlands Market Report for more information on our real estate market.

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The Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival is set to hold its third annual event April 12 and 13, 2008. The festival is a juried fine art show featuring 200 national and regional artists of various mediums selling their original creations.

Festival hours are 10 am – 8 pm Saturday and 10 am – 6 pm Sunday. Admission is $10 for adults. Children 12 and under are admitted free of charge. Proceeds from the festival benefit local arts-related organizations.

The event takes place along the meandering Waterway from The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel and Convention Center alongside The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion and culminates at Town Green Park.

The Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival has announced the selection of Sally Maxwell, a master scratchboard artist from LaGrange, Texas, as the featured artist for the third annual event. Maxwell has more than 30 years experience as an artist and began working in this medium several years ago. Her love of Texas wildlife can be seen in her work, as well as in the featured artwork for the festival.

For more information about The Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival, visit www.woodlandsartfestival.com, send an e-mail to info@woodlandsartsfestival.com or call 281-222-6820.
Source: TWDC

VillaSport Athletic Club and Spa, a family membership facility, will soon begin construction of an 87,000-square-foot club and spa on a 12.4-acre site on Technology Forest Drive in The Woodlands directly across from the new Fox Network Center-Houston, according to Dan Leverett, vice president of commercial for The Woodlands Development Company.

Construction is scheduled to begin soon, with opening planned for late 2008. Both indoor and outdoor amenities will be featured at VillaSport. The outdoor areas include two unique pools. One will be a kid’s pool complex with two water slides and a zero entry area plus adjacent lap pool. For adults, there will be a 25-yard, five-lane lap pool with an adjoining hot tub. There will also be a poolside VillaCafé. The VillaSport Field House will be an 18,000-square-foot, air-conditioned facility for year-round indoor soccer and other sports.

For information regarding membership, please call Tony Maniscalco, Vice President of Marketing for VillaSport at 415-448-8441 or visit www.villasport.com.
Source: TWDC