MacDonald Highlands’ Custom Homes, Four Seasons Tower, and Planned Villa Project Run on Different Timelines

For twenty-five years, one familiar way to buy into MacDonald Highlands was to find a lot, hire a builder, and wait. That was the custom-estate model: guard gates, DragonRidge views, and a build timeline measured in your own patience.

This year, a new approval added a planned villa-and-tower option. On August 4, 2026, the Henderson City Council adopted Ordinance No. 4169, creating a brand-new Planning Area 29 inside the MacDonald Highlands master plan and clearing the way for the community's first standalone villa-and-tower project. Meanwhile, a few hundred yards away, the Four Seasons Private Residences tower keeps rising, and keeps pushing its own finish line further out than anyone originally announced. If you're comparing MacDonald Highlands against Seven Hills or the Ridges right now, you're no longer shopping one product. You're shopping three, and each one runs on a different clock.

What Ordinance 4169 Actually Does

The public notice is dry by design, but NevBex's report on the project is worth reading closely. The ordinance rezones 13.7 acres near the intersection of Mystic Rock Place and Rock Peak Drive in the McCullough Hills Planning Area, creates Planning Area 29, and transfers 54 residential units out of Planning Area 28, which had originally been allotted 235 units under the master plan.

That reallocation detail matters more than the unit count. This isn't new density being added to the community. It's density that was always on the books for PA-28 getting moved and reshaped into a different product on a different parcel.

What gets built there is 19 ground-level villas plus two small residential towers holding 35 units between them, at a density of just under four dwelling units per acre. Access runs through a gated entry at Viento Puntero and Rock Peak drives, with private internal streets and a six-foot stone perimeter wall separating the site from its neighbors. The developer of record is PA18L1 LLC, an entity tied to MacDonald Highlands itself. The architect is Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo, and the other named parties on the project are Luxus Developments, Azure Resorts, and Two Roads Development.

Those three names should sound familiar if you've followed the Four Seasons project. They're the same development team.

How the Four Seasons Completion Date Has Shifted

The Four Seasons Private Residences at MacDonald Highlands didn't start as a Four Seasons project at all. It was first proposed in 2021 as Pinnacle Residences, a 183-unit, two-tower condo development priced from roughly $1.5 million to $13 million, with construction targeted to start in late 2022 and finish by summer 2024. Four Seasons signed on as brand and operator in 2023, the unit count settled at 171 across two towers, and sales launched that May.

Every public timeline since then has slipped.

The completion target has moved roughly four years from the original public estimate, on a project whose own architect firm now describes it as "currently under construction" with an anticipated opening in 2028, after crossing $850 million in sales with about three-quarters of residences under contract.

None of that makes the project troubled. Azure Resorts and Two Roads Development have both framed the slower pace as a function of scale and precision, not distress. Reid Boren, managing partner of Two Roads Development, put it this way when the developer announced $781 million in secured construction financing at the start of this year: as construction certainty increases and remaining inventory becomes more limited, the value equation naturally shifts.

What it does mean is that a buyer signing a contract today on a Four Seasons residence is buying a 2028 delivery date on a project whose public completion target has moved more than once. That's not a reason to avoid it. It's a reason to ask harder questions about deposit structure, bonding, and what happens if the timeline moves again before you write the check.

The Custom Lots Are Still Trading on a Different Clock

While the tower's finish line keeps receding, the existing custom-home market inside MacDonald Highlands has kept transacting at its usual pace, and that pace is fast.

The community holds the all-time record for a Las Vegas Valley residential sale: 685 Dragon Peak Drive closed for $25.25 million in July 2025. A few months later, in October 2025, a Blue Heron-built home called Clarius at 607 Alpine Summit Drive sold for $13.4 million before it ever hit the open market, according to the Review-Journal, with listing agents describing it as the third-highest sale in the community that year.

The pattern holds into this year. A semi-custom home at 1456 Solitude Ridge Drive listed in May 2026 for just under $6 million, a 7,695-square-foot home on almost half an acre. On June 30, a home at 1199 MacDonald Ranch Drive sold for $7.25 million after just two days on market. Earlier in the year, a 17,868-square-foot home at 681 Tranquil Rim Court listed for $14.95 million on about an acre inside the gates.

None of these homes waited on a construction schedule. They existed, they got shown, and in some cases they were gone within days.

Three Products, Three Timelines

Put those two stories side by side and the shape of the current market becomes clear.

A custom or resale estate inside MacDonald Highlands transacts like any other high-end home. You tour it, you make an offer, you close on a normal residential timeline, and the biggest variable is whether you can move fast enough to beat another buyer to it.

A unit in the Four Seasons tower is a pre-construction purchase with a delivery date that has already changed more than once. You're buying a position in a branded project, not a finished home, and the further out 2028 sits from today, the more that gap matters for financing, carrying costs, and your own plans for where you'll be living in the meantime.

The villas and towers coming to Planning Area 29 sit somewhere between the two, and right now they sit closer to the starting line than either. The ordinance creating the planning area only passed in August. There's no public groundbreaking date, no pricing, and no sales office. What we do know is the physical envelope: 19 low-rise villas with two-to-three bedrooms, two residential towers, a gated entry off Rock Peak Drive, and a development team that is already building inside this same community.

What to Ask Depending on Which Door You Walk Through

If you're drawn to a finished custom home, the questions that matter are the familiar ones: comparable sales, lot orientation, view corridors, and how quickly similar homes have moved in the past few months.

If you're considering the Four Seasons tower, the questions shift toward the contract itself. What does the deposit schedule look like, how is your money protected if the completion date moves again, and what's your own tolerance for owning a contract on a home that doesn't exist yet.

If Planning Area 29 interests you, patience is the honest answer right now. The zoning is settled. The pricing, the sales timeline, and the actual construction schedule are not, and anyone offering firm answers on those points this early is guessing.

A few questions I get often

Is the Four Seasons project in trouble because the date keeps moving? Not based on anything public. The developer reported crossing $850 million in sales and roughly 75 percent of units under contract as of its most recent project update. Slower delivery on a large branded high-rise is common industry-wide. It's a planning consideration, not a red flag.

Does Planning Area 29 mean more homes are coming to MacDonald Highlands overall? Not net new density. The 54 units approved for PA-29 were reallocated from Planning Area 28's existing 235-unit cap under the master plan, not added on top of it.

Can I buy land and build my own custom home here today? Yes. Custom lots and resale estates remain the community's primary product, and they continue to trade at a normal residential pace, as the recent sales on Dragon Peak Drive, Alpine Summit Drive, and MacDonald Ranch Drive show.

If you're weighing a finished estate against a pre-construction position or want a clearer read on what Planning Area 29 will actually offer once pricing surfaces, I'd be glad to walk through the tradeoffs with you. Reach out to Rosanna Bieszczat to schedule a consultation.