September 20, 2007
Harvey Whittemore Gives Updates on Coyote Springs

Photo by Dave Maxwell Klif Andrews of Pardee Homes of Nevada (left) and Harvey Whittemore, CEO of Coyote Springs Investments.

By Dave Maxwell

By the end of 2007 the first golf Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course will be open at Coyote Springs. Harvey Whittemore, CEO of Coyote Springs Investments said they are 95 percent to their goal of having the course open this fall.

As for Pardee Homes, Klif Andrews, director of Pardee’s Nevada division, said they are “under construction on a number of different fronts i.e., utilities, water and sewer pipeline and the largest single project with the wastewater treatment plant that is currently being built at the south end of the project even up into Lincoln County.”

All that is part of the infrastructure at Coyote that for the most part is unseen by passersby since it is under ground. But Andrews said Pardee is now working on the vertical construction of the 32,000 square foot community center that will be for the use of our residents for community recreation, physical fitness, community rooms, etc.”

Andrews said he thought that 2009 was going to be a very strong, even record year for housing in Las Vegas which is driven in large part, he said by casino construction and room count and additional rooms that are brought into the market.” And that’s a positive thing for Pardee and homebuilding at Coyote Springs. “That means we’re looking at a stronger market, more people looking for homes, more people looking for alternatives to Las Vegas which we expect Coyote Springs to be.”

Whittemore said the first golf course will be ready for play in October and will have a grand opening when Pardee is ready to open their housing community for sales, which is projected to be September, 2008. He said that both CSI and Pardee Homes are on schedule with their work and are also “very pleased with the quality of the work, the price of the work we’re getting, the quality of the people. We were shooting for the middle of October to have the course ready to play and we’re right on schedule to do that.”

Until the grand opening of the golf course, it will only be Invitational Only play, which Whittemore said is for potential customers of Pardee Homes and potential partners with Coyote Springs.

He said thee will not be a lot of activity on the course at the beginning, because of the fact it is Invitation Only. Representatives from the PGA made a visit to Coyote Springs on September 12 to view the course in its near completed form.

Harvey said work at Coyote Springs on the Lincoln County side must still wait until final approval of the Lincoln County Habitat Conservation Plan. The Lincoln County plan is different from the Coyote Springs Multi-species Habitat Conservation Plan, in that it covers all of Lincoln County including the part that Coyote Springs occupies.