What do Quail Valley & Sienna Plantation Have in Common?

This entry and subsequent discussion will focus on two golf course communities currently in Missouri City, TX. The contrasts between the two communities is stark. Quail Valley is about 30 years old and is starting to show its age. Many of the mistakes made during its planning/development stages are now evident. Home values, according to recent HCN FB Sun figures ('05), demonstrate that the property values aren't keeping up with the rest of the area. Cost shifting attempts are being made by the Golf Club to the residents to save its struggling country club. The point of discussion is will this be Sienna in a few decades?

QV has multi-family housing but no retail within the housing areas, while Sienna is currently building multi-family (apartments) and retail within the immediate housing areas. At one time Sienna was marketed as a 3 golf course recreational/residential community but has slowly been redesigned into a high density, residential, retail, multi-family with only one golf course master plan. One village in Sienna, the Lodge, had their homes advertised as being on a golf course or having a view of one but that has since been converted into a high density retail/commercial area. What will happen to those home values?

Will SP be going through what QV is experiencing in a few decades because of poor planning now? This is a thread that should focus on the problems facing these two very similar communities within the same town.