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Texas Real Estate News 9/3/2010
Multifamily, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington
Grubb & Ellis Acquiring Three North Texas Apartments
DALLAS (Dallas Morning News) – Grubb & Ellis Apartment REIT Inc. has contracted to buy three apartment communities valued at $48 million from Virginia-based Mission Residential, according to financial filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. | Multifamily, Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown
Chesmar Homes Building in The Woodlands
THE WOODLANDS (Houston Business Journal) – Chesmar Homes has acquired six acres on Ashlane Way in the Village of Sterling Ridge in The Woodlands for a new townhome project. | Multifamily, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington
Mid-America Strikes Again . . . And Again
DALLAS (Dallas Morning News) – Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc. has purchased The Venue at Stonebridge Ranch, a 250-unit rental property completed in 2000, and La Valencia at Starwood, a new 270-unit apartment community on Lebanon Rd. in Frisco. | Public Facilities, Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown
Water Sports Complex Washing into Rosharon
ROSHARON (Houston Chronicle) – Cincinnati-based Wake Nation has purchased 20 acres off SH 288 here for a water sports complex. | Infrastructure & Transportation, Texas
100 Most Congested Road Segments in Texas
TEXAS (Texas Department of Transportation & Austin Business Journal) – The Texas Department of Transportation has compiled a list of the 100 most congested roadway segments in Texas. | Center News, College Station-Bryan
Red Zone Listeners: It's Your Turn to Talk
COLLEGE STATION (Real Estate Center) – For nearly a year now, Real Estate Red Zone podcast hosts Bryan Pope and Edie Craig have talked and talked and talked some more without letting you get a word in edgewise. | Center News, College Station-Bryan
Going to Galveston? Join Our Focus Group
COLLEGE STATION (Real Estate Center) – If you plan on being in Galveston next Friday and Saturday for the Texas Assocation of Realtors convention, you're invited to participate in a Real Estate Center focus group. You might even walk away with a new camcorder. |
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Anna is on State Highway 5, Farm Road 455, and the Southern Pacific Railroad eleven miles northeast of McKinney in north central Collin County. Although Collin McKinney settled within a few miles of the future townsite in 1846, John F. Greer, who arrived in 1867, is credited with building the first home and store there.
The Houston and Texas Central Railway, at that time building between Dallas and Denison, passed through the area in 1873. By the time Anna was platted in 1883, it had a population of twenty, two stores, a steam gristmill, and a Baptist church. A post office also opened in that year.
By 1890 the town had a population of 100 to 200. It incorporated in 1913, with Greer as first mayor. Two years later the Greenville and Whitewright Northern Traction Company built the Greenville and Northwestern Railway between Anna and Blue Ridge via Westminster. The line proved unsuccessful, however, and was abandoned in 1920.
Anna's first bank, the Continental Bank, was organized in 1902, and the Collin County State Bank was organized in 1913 with R. C. Moore as president. The population of Anna was 538 in 1929 and 467 in 1931. Some sources suggest that the community was named after Greer's daughter. Others report that the town was named in honor of Anna Quinlan, daughter of George A. Quinlan, former superintendent of the Houston and Texas Central. Still another story suggests that Anna Quinlan was the wife of George Quinlan and the daughter of J. L. Greer. Finally, another story attributes the name to Anna Huntington, daughter of C. P. Huntington, who built the Dallas-Denison railroad line. In the mid-1980s Anna had 855 residents and several businesses. The population was 904 in 1990.
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