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Two new master-planned communities in Denton County, Texas, built block by block by Shelton Development LLC from the office on Country Club Road. The Meadows wraps a pond. The Commons wraps a five-acre park with a farmhouse pergola. Three Boxabl plans (Casita, Familia, TownHome) engineered for North Texas summers and tornado season. From $189,000. 7-year tax abatement included.
Shelton Development is partnering with Boxabl on two adjacent communities in Denton County, designed for working Texas families, built with the same factory-engineered home, shaped by the same site-planning team that's been working this stretch of land since 2017. Pick a project to walk through.
An 86-home master-planned neighborhood on 22 acres in Denton County, organized around a central pond and a primary walk lined with canopy trees. Three home types (Casita, Familia, and TownHome) sit on a deliberate street grid drawn by Kimley-Horn. Residential first, with quiet shared green at the center.
The same three Boxabl plans run across both communities, Casita at 800 sf, Familia at 800 sf with the third bedroom, and the TownHome at 1,600 sf over two stories with attached garage. Pick a plan, a roof line, a palette pulled from Texas itself: bluebonnet, mesquite, Hill Country limestone, Denton sky. The render updates live, and so does the monthly payment. Every home shows up to your lot complete, full kitchen, baths, HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and appliances installed in factory.
Compact two-bedroom single-story. 20 × 40 ft footprint, 11'8" ceilings. Full kitchen, bath, HVAC, and appliances are factory-installed. Best for couples, retirees, and rental income on the Commons.
*Illustrative monthly payment, 20% down, 30-year fixed at a representative rate. Not a commitment to lend. Final pricing & rates set at contract; see Financing for full terms.
Both communities lean into the North Texas climate: live-oak canopy for the August sun, decomposed-granite paths instead of concrete glare, festoon lights for the long evenings, and water at the heart of each plan. The Meadows wraps a pond. The Commons opens to a five-acre park with a farmhouse pergola, three fire-pit rings, and a berm playground built for a Texas childhood.
The Meadows is anchored by a pond and a primary walk lined with native canopy trees: live oak, cedar elm, bur oak. Drawn into the master plan from day one, not a phase-three afterthought. Forty-foot canopy in seven years.
The Commons centers on a covered farmhouse-style pergola with built-in grills, festoon lighting, and decomposed-granite seating areas. Engineered for the Friday-night-table-for-twelve and the Sunday-afternoon brisket.
Three permanent fire-pit rings and a row of slung hammocks in DG under the live oaks. October to April, the pits pull the neighborhood out at sundown. August stays inside; that's the Texas calendar.
A nature-play berm (soft contours, climbable boulders, shade sails) instead of plastic primary-color equipment. Designed for the kid stage you're actually parenting in, by parents who've been there.
A flat open lawn sized for cornhole, bocce, kickball, and Saturday picnics. Edged in DG paths so it stays the lawn, not the parking overflow, not the dog run, not the de-facto soccer pitch.
Straightforward dues. Maintained paseos, lighting, the pond, and exterior-color guardrails so the street looks like the renders in ten years, not just at opening day. Texas-fair, in plain English, on one page.
Your Boxabl home arrives complete. Texas-sealed, fully equipped, ready to live in.
At Shelton's communities, the kitchen is stocked, the bath is done, the HVAC is running, and the Texas state seal is already on the wall. You walk the threshold, plug in your life, and unpack. No four-month exterior trim drag, no three-trade chase to get the dishwasher hooked up.
Reserve and we'll walk the full spec →Two specialists, doing what each does best. That split shows up in every wall, every appraisal, every August utility bill.
Shelton Development is the developer of record. Land assembly, entitlements, the Texas Special Purpose District, the HOA, the warranty service: that's all Shelton. The engineering, the precision, the consistency of the home itself: that's Boxabl. What you feel when you walk in: tighter seams, quieter rooms, a kitchen that works the day you move in. A tight envelope means your AC bill in a Denton August isn't a surprise. A precision build means your neighbor's house doesn't look like a different builder's work in five years.
If you've worked with Shelton on land before (through the consulting practice, a tax abatement, or an SPD setup), this is the same hand on the wheel. It's the first project where Amanda is both your consultant and your developer.
Reserve and we'll walk you through the full spec →Panels line up the way they're drawn, every seam, every time.
Written, serviced by Shelton Development. One phone number, one office, in Denton.
Your home's framing, wiring, and plumbing never see a Texas thunderstorm before it's sealed.
QC checkpoints in the Boxabl factory, plus Texas-seal third-party inspection.
A curated spec, identical in every Shelton-developed Boxabl home, delivered installed and under warranty. Upgrade packages available at reservation.
From an empty Denton County pasture to move-in-ready, typical. Drag through the weeks to see the milestones: pad, set, finish, landscape, keys.
The Meadows concept (April 2026, Kimley-Horn) lays out 86 lots across 22 acres around a central pond. The Commons puts 48 lots around a 5-acre central park. Hover any block on the live grid below to inspect: rust squares are sold, gray are reserved, lemon are amenity. Reservations close at 80% committed.
The architect's conceptual layouts: street grid, paseos, pond, and every lot drawn. The same drawings Amanda walks you through at the Country Club Road office.
134 lots across two communities, around the central pond at the Meadows and the park at the Commons. Filter by plan, view, and budget; or click any lot on the live plan to see its details.
Big skies, no state income tax, short commute. I-35 straight south to Dallas, I-35E east to DFW International. Groceries, schools, and the medical center inside Denton, the metroplex when you want it.
Denton sits at the top of the metroplex, a real town, not just a suburb. UNT and TWU put 50,000 students in walking distance of the square. The Frisco/Plano job corridors are 25 minutes south. DFW International is 45 minutes door-to-terminal. And property tax abatement on new construction is a real, repeatable Texas tool, the kind of thing Amanda's been quietly setting up for landowners for years.
For nearly a decade, I've sat across the conference-room table from landowners, investors, and Denton County commissioners, talking utilities, zoning, market windows, and the everyday math of a Special Purpose District. Most of that work happened in spreadsheets and on aerial drone footage. I love that work. But I always wondered what would happen if we kept going past the entitlement.
Then Boxabl walked into the Country Club Road office last year, and we pulled out the maps. The Meadows and The Commons are what came of that conversation, two communities, three home plans, one job: deliver a real Texas home for less money than a comparable stick-built, on lots that hold their value because they were planned right from the property line in. No corners cut, no exterior trim mystery, no four-month inspection drag. Just good land, planned with care, with a home that arrives finished.
If you reserve, you're getting the same hand on the wheel that's been handling tax abatements, drone shoots, and SPD setups for clients all along. The part where I sit at the table with you, that part doesn't change. Let's chat land.
SPDs are the most-misunderstood Texas land tool. A short, plain-English breakdown of how Meadows residents will benefit.
The unsexy answer: tolerance. The seams are tight, and the numbers shake out at the kitchen table. Plus the dishwasher actually works.
For landowners who haven't engaged the consulting practice yet, what $750 buys, and where Tier III's $10,000 actually pays back.
Most homebuyers never see the entitlement layer of a development, and most developers can't explain it without a lawyer in the room. Shelton can. The consulting practice has set up Special Purpose Districts and property-tax abatements for clients across North Texas for years. Both communities use them. Here's the plain-English version.
If you're an investor or developer-buyer looking at this for the first time: the savings are real, they're documented in your closing book, and they're transferable to the next owner. If you're a homebuyer: it shows up as a noticeably lower property-tax line on every escrow statement for the abatement window.
Shelton Development buyers are financed through Boxabl's exclusive RenoFi partnership. RenoFi underwrites on your home's completed value, not a construction estimate, typically 30–40% more buying power than a standard construction loan. Available in Texas because your home is built by Boxabl.
Your Boxabl home and RenoFi's underwriting flow through cleanly to a Texas mortgage. RenoFi underwrites on completed value, so you usually qualify for meaningfully more than with a stick-built construction loan. Drag the sliders to see what your monthly looks like.
Two communities of canopy trees, decomposed-granite paths, hammocks under the live oaks, and a farmhouse-style pergola where Friday-night dinners run long. Texas-honest, planned in detail.
Concept renderings combine real April-2026 site work (Kimley-Horn, Boxabl, Shelton landscape concept) with illustrative tiles for amenity zones. Final landscape construction may evolve, that's why these are called concepts.
The things future neighbors and investors ask Amanda most. Don't see yours? Call the office, email, or stop by the Country Club Road suite.
The Meadows is the larger, residential-led project, 86 homes on 22 acres, organized around a central pond and a primary tree allée drawn by Kimley-Horn. It feels like a quiet residential neighborhood with shared green at the center.
The Commons is smaller, about 48 homes on 18 acres, but the 5-acre central park is the headline. Farmhouse pergola, fire pits, berm playground, decomposed-granite seating, festoon lights. It's designed for households that want their evenings to spill outside.
Both share the same three home plans, the same warranty, the same SPD, and the same property-tax-abatement window. You're choosing a vibe more than a house.
Yes, within the catalog. At reservation you pick palette (eight options), roof line (3:12 gable foam or 1/2:12 shed adobe), and an upgrade package (cabinetry, countertop, appliance tier, fixtures). Beyond that, custom architectural changes aren't available, that's how we keep the price locked and the timeline to 10–14 weeks. Build packages typically run $3K–$22K depending on selections.
Phase 01 dues are $148/month at The Meadows and $178/month at The Commons (the higher amenity load drives the difference). They cover paseo & allée maintenance, streetlights, the pond at the Meadows or the central park at the Commons, common-area landscape, and the exterior-color guardrails that keep the street looking like the renders. Your lot is yours, landscape inside your fence is your call.
The SPD lets the community fund and own its water, sewer, drainage, and roads, instead of those being city-general-fund obligations. That carve-out, combined with the negotiated property-tax abatement window with Denton County, materially reduces your property-tax escrow line for seven years from your certificate of occupancy. On the Casita at $189K, that's roughly $1,400–$2,200/yr in tax savings during the abatement window, depending on the year on the schedule. Amanda will model your specific lot at reservation, it's the practice she's been running for clients for nearly a decade.
Yes. These are real fee-simple lots, not manufactured-home pads. Boxabl-built homes on Shelton-developed land appraise and mortgage like any new-construction single-family home in Texas. Through Boxabl's RenoFi partnership, you can underwrite on the completed-home value, typically 30–40% more buying power than a standard construction loan. You can also bring your own Texas lender.
These resell as standard single-family Texas homes. The 10-year warranty is fully transferable to the next owner at the remaining term, that's an actual selling point. The property-tax abatement is also transferable for the remainder of the seven-year window. Denton County housing has appreciated roughly 6–9% annually since 2018; the SPD-funded infrastructure protects long-term street-level value as the community matures.
Shelton Development is your single point of contact for anything under warranty, one portal, one phone number, no chasing subcontractors. Non-emergency service responds within 3 business days; emergencies (no AC in August, water leaks, electrical faults, lockouts) are same-day. Major appliances are Whirlpool direct under their manufacturer warranty; we handle the handoff. The office is on Country Club Road in Denton, fifteen minutes from either community.
Yes to both. Every home is pre-wired for a Level-2 EV charger and the roof can carry a solar array. We don't include solar in the base price. Texas net-metering varies enough by utility (CoServ, Oncor, Denton Municipal Electric) that we'd rather you pick your own installer once you know your bill.
Yes. With a $500 reservation deposit, your Shelton advisor walks you through the live site plan to pick a specific lot, pond-front, park-front, and corner lots go fastest. Your lot is locked to you until contract; the deposit is fully refundable until then.
Yes, with limits. Phase 01 caps investor reservations at 25% of the lots in each project to protect owner-occupant character. The Casita has been the strongest rental performer in DFW comps, 800 sf, two bedrooms, low utility cost, in an SPD that already addresses water/sewer entitlements. Amanda has been packaging this for landowner-investors through her consulting practice for years; ask for the investor pro forma at reservation.
Locks in your project, your plan, your palette, and your spot in the build queue. A Shelton advisor, likely Amanda herself, reaches out within 24 hours to schedule your visit to the Country Club Road office and walk you through the SPD math, the property-tax abatement, and your financing options. No high-pressure pitch. Just the numbers, on paper, in your hand.
2925 Country Club Rd, Suite 106 · Denton, TX 76210. Open Tuesday through Saturday by appointment. Coffee's on the table, the site plans are on the wall, and the drone's on the desk if you want to see your prospective lot from 400 feet up.
Shelton's two communities are part of Boxabl's exclusive RenoFi partnership, a private financing channel offered nowhere else in Denton County. RenoFi underwrites on your home's completed value, not a construction estimate, and Boxabl's factory-built precision means the appraisal lands where it should.
Built into every Shelton lot. Stacks with the SPD property-tax abatement. Soft credit pull. No commitment to apply.