Home Creations owners propose two new developments

Aerial of two development tracts outlined in red straddling a highlighted future turnpike corridor (the blue line).

Companies linked to the owners of Moore-based developer and builder Home Creations have proposed two new developments along prominent Norman corridors. 

Sooner Village is a 56.54 acre development at the south east corner of Highway 9 and Jenkins Ave in south Norman.

Aerial of the triangular Sooner Village tract outlined in red along the highway near the City of Norman water-reclamation facility and the OU Research Campus.

Farzaneh J9 OZ Investments LLC and Highway 9 Jenkins M&J Investments LLC purchased the two tracts from Avara Pharmaceutical Technologies Inc. for $1.352 million in September 2020.

Following the purchase the land was cleared of a majority of the trees, leaving only the foliage around the outer edge of the parcel remaining.

Older (2019) winter aerial of the same Sooner Village tract outlined in red.

The development proposes 9 lots including a gas station, mixed-use buildings, a hotel, apartments, townhomes, duplexes, self storage, and office/warehouse space.

Aerial of the Sooner Village tract with a site-plan overlay labeling a gas station, mixed-use, mini-storage, office/warehouse, apartments, a hotel, and duplexes.

Whispering Hill is a 40 acre development north of Indian Hills Road and east of 48th Avenue NW in northwest Norman.

Aerial of the L-shaped vacant Whispering Hills site outlined in red beside a residential neighborhood.

Shaz Investment Group LLC has owned the land since purchase in March 2005 for $600,000. The proposal includes commercial uses, apartments, and duplexes.

Aerial of the Whispering Hills site with a site-plan overlay labeling apartments, duplexes, and commercial space.

Whispering Hill is just one of a handful of developments proposed along Indian Hills Road after the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority’s $5 Billion Access Oklahoma plan was unveiled in February 2022.

Aerial showing several proposed Indian Hills-area developments — Whispering Hills, Redlands, Uplands, and Bridgeview at Carrington — straddling a proposed East/West Connector Turnpike.

To the east of Whispering Hills Premium Land LLC (Homes by Taber) has proposed a similar mixed-use commercial, apartment, duplex, and single family development dubbed Redlands Addition. The 80-acre tract was purchased from Westpoint Developers in January 2021 for $4 million.

East of the Redlands Tract, Hallbrooke Addition Developer and Norman resident Trey Bates has proposed a commercial, office, apartment, townhome, and single family development dubbed Uplands Addition. The 130-acre tract, owned by Uplands Development Co LLC, was purchased in May 2004 for $1.6 million.

The same Indian Hills aerial with proposed uses labeled: single-family, duplex, apartments, townhouse, office, commercial, and mixed-use.

The East-West Connector, part of Access Oklahoma, proposes to connect the HE Bailey Turnpike north of Newcastle with a southern extension of the existing Kickapoo Turnpike to be built in East Norman along the current path of Indian Hills Road. The 28-mile long project is slated to have 11 exits and projected to cost $1.5 billion. 

The OTA received approval from the Oklahoma Supreme Court in August 2023 to continue work on Access Oklahoma after a handful of factors, including pending litigation, halted the projects in April 2023.