Custom Home Building at Preston Harbor on Lake Texoma

Preston Harbor occupies more than three thousand acres along the southern shoreline of Lake Texoma, with nine and a half miles of frontage on the main lake and twenty-seven internal lakes within the property — four of them larger than twenty-five acres. The development is the realization of a twenty-year vision originally assembled by Denison resident George Schuler, now being built out by Craig International — the firm behind Craig Ranch in McKinney — with partners including the Choctaw Nation. A Margaritaville Resort Hotel will anchor the lakefront recreational core. A new marina, walking trails, golf cart paths, retail, restaurants, and land dedicated to Denison ISD schools complete the master plan.

Groundbreaking occurred in October of 2025. The first residential lots are scheduled for completion in late 2026. The full build-out, projected at roughly seven thousand five hundred homes across multiple housing types, will unfold over the next decade and beyond.

Building inside a master-planned community is its own discipline. Architectural review boards. Design covenants. Material standards. Coordination with the developer’s phasing — knowing which lots are buildable in which quarter, which utility connections are in place, which infrastructure milestones must precede which construction stages. The covenants exist to protect every owner’s investment over time, and a builder who understands them as a system rather than a hurdle is a different proposition than one who is meeting them for the first time.

We already build inside Rock Creek — a covenanted lakefront community thirty miles up the Texas shoreline, with one of the more rigorous architectural review processes on the lake. We know how to read a design guideline. We know how to navigate a board submission. We know how to coordinate a fourteen-month build inside a community that is still actively developing around it.

Three thousand acres of held land does not feel uniform when you walk it. Preston Harbor’s interior contains twenty-seven lakes — four larger than twenty-five acres — woven through wooded terrain that rises and falls in ways that reward careful siting. The estate lots are positioned on the more topographically interesting portions of the property: ridgelines, cove inlets, mature tree stands, the eastern bluffs that catch morning light off the main lake.

The land within Preston Harbor will allow for the kind of architecture that cannot be built on a flat, treeless subdivision lot. A home set into a slope. A home oriented to a specific sight line down a cove. A home whose roofline takes its cue from the tree canopy above it. A home that does not need to invent its own character because the land already supplies one.