Summerlin is a 22,500 acres master planned community under development by The Howard Hughes Corporation (an affiliate of General Growth Properties) in Las Vegas, Nevada near the Spring Mountains and Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. Summerlin, named for Howard Hughes’ grandmother, Jean Amelia Summerlin, ranked as the country’s best-selling master-planned community for more than a decade by Robert Charles Lesser & Co. and continues to rank among the top ten best-selling communities in the country some 20 years after development first began.
The Summerlin master plan includes a variety of land uses, including: residential, commercial, recreational, educational, medical, open space, and cultural. As of June 2010, Summerlin’s population was more than 100,000.
