Inside the SR 52 Build-Out: Roughly 9,500 More Homes Planned Around San Antonio, Plus Millions of Square Feet of Commerce

The development map for the State Road 52 corridor through San Antonio now accounts for roughly 9,500 homes and apartments outside Mirada, several million square feet of industrial and commercial space, and a future Pasco County school site near SR 52 and Curley Road. That single sheet explains a lot of what residents already feel at the Curley Road signal on a weekday afternoon, and it sets out how much more is still to come.

Some of it is finished. Some of it is under construction. A good deal of it exists only as entitlements, meaning a landowner has permission to build a certain number of units and has not necessarily broken ground.

The retail row along SR 52

The brand names are the part locals recognize first. The corridor map shows Publix, Starbucks, Fifth Third Bank, Heartland Dental, Slim Chickens, Dunkin', Del Taco, Culver's, Taco Bell, McDonald's, Wawa, Chase, Panera Bread, Chipotle and Walmart in and around the SR 52 commercial nodes.

Not all of these are open. Some are operating, some are in development, and others appear on the map as part of nearby commercial centers rather than as standalone confirmed stores. The anchor of the grouping is the Publix at The Market at Mirada, which opened in August 2021 at Mirada Boulevard and SR 52.

Beyond the storefronts

The larger commercial pieces on the map are less visible from the road but far bigger in square footage:

• Two areas labeled Big Box Commercial near the Schrader property.
• St. Leo Commons, with roughly 90,000 square feet of nonresidential space.
• Magnolia Island, about 70,000 square feet of commercial.
• Evans Nursery, about 70,000 square feet of nonresidential development.
• Double Branch, with roughly 650,000 square feet of restaurant and office space.
• One Pasco Center and other mixed commercial areas west of the main corridor.

Mirada is nearly done

Mirada, the master-planned community that gave the corridor its lagoon and its traffic signal, is close to complete. The map shows multiple Lennar active-adult neighborhoods, Homes by WestBay, DR Horton sections, Toll Brothers' Biscayne area, the amenity core with the lagoon and welcome center, and remaining future residential sections.

Two pieces are still going up: Mirada Apartments, at 390 units under construction, and a separate site planned for roughly 350 townhomes.

The housing outside Mirada

This is the part that will change the drive. Everything below sits outside Mirada, mostly clustered around SR 52 and Curley Road, and the counts are what the map shows as approved, entitled or in permitting.

Project	Units
Epperson North	1,795 homes
Evans Nursery	1,064 units
Abbey Crossings (245 acres, mixed use)	900 units
Harvest Commons-Pittman	240 lots, 600 multifamily
St. Leo Commons	796 lots
Kenton PD	350 multifamily, 450 townhomes
Schrader MPUD	625 multifamily
Magnolia Island	475 units
Unnamed entitled parcel	470 lots
Village Green of Pasadena	423 lots
Tall Timber MPUD	380 units
Boger Ranch (Lennar)	214 lots
VOPH Kiefer (in permitting)	188 lots
Hopkins	144 units
Boger Ranch Phase 2	136 lots
Boger McCabe	129 units
Bailey MPUD	80 lots

Schools have to keep up

The map marks a future Pasco County school site near SR 52 and Curley Road. It also shows Saint Leo University serving about 2,274 students, and the Double Branch area with a planned 30-acre health campus alongside its other components.

Thousands of rooftops generate students. Where those students go, and when a new campus actually opens, will be a Pasco County Schools decision tied to enrollment projections and impact fee revenue.

Jobs, warehouses and medical

AdventHealth already has a presence along the SR 52 corridor. The biggest employment numbers on the map come from industrial and mixed-use land near the interstate.

Double Branch is shown with a 30-acre health campus, two hotels, roughly 4.5 million square feet of industrial development, about 1,440 townhomes, about 1,600 multifamily units, and 650,000 square feet of restaurant and office space. Local reports have put the project's long-term job creation in the thousands. Abbey Crossings includes a logistics and distribution component of roughly 630,000 square feet across 85 acres.

The Target facility at the I-75 and SR 52 area is shown at about 1.1 million square feet; local reporting on the completed e-commerce fulfillment center has described it at closer to 1.4 million. Either way, it is the largest single building in the corridor's employment base, which is trending toward logistics, healthcare, retail, construction and professional services.

What it buys, and what it costs

The upside is straightforward: more shopping and dining without driving to Wesley Chapel, more job options close to home, a wider range of housing, expanded medical and educational services, a bigger tax base, and better regional road connections.

The strain is just as straightforward. Traffic on SR 52 and Curley Road, pressure on schools, water, sewer and emergency response, more demand for road widening, and a steady change in the rural character that drew a lot of people to San Antonio in the first place.

One piece of the road network is already finished. FDOT accepted the SR 52 realignment work from Uradco Place to west of Fort King Road in July 2024, with signals operating at Mirada Boulevard, Curley Road and Prospect Road. Curley Road itself remains two lanes. Whether it gets widened before the bulk of these 9,500 units are built is the question that will decide how the next five years feel from behind the wheel. Pasco County has not announced a construction schedule for the widening or for the future school site.

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