The Badlands Redevelopment and What It Means for Queensridge Homeowners in 2026 Market Intelligence | Queensridge & The Preserve, Las Vegas, NV 89145

The Badlands Redevelopment and What It Means for Queensridge Homeowners in 2026
Market Intelligence | Queensridge & The Preserve, Las Vegas, NV 89145

If you own a home in Queensridge, follow the Queensridge real estate market, or are considering buying in this community, the Badlands Golf Course redevelopment is the most significant land-use story affecting this neighborhood in its entire history. Here is a clear, factual account of what happened, what has been approved, and what it actually means for property owners right now.

The Background: From Golf Course to Legal Battle
The Badlands Golf Club was a 27-hole desert-links style course that once surrounded large portions of the Queensridge community. It was a defining feature of the neighborhood -- homeowners who purchased lots backing the fairways paid premiums for those views and that open space buffer, and the course gave the broader community a maintained, landscaped landscape at its center. The course closed in 2016 after its ownership transferred to EHB Companies, the developer behind Tivoli Village and One Queensridge Place. EHB sought to develop housing on the 250-acre site. The City of Las Vegas, responding to sustained opposition from Queensridge residents, blocked development -- and EHB sued, alleging the city had effectively taken its property by denying development rights. The resulting legal dispute became one of the most expensive land-use battles in Las Vegas history, ultimately producing a settlement in which the city agreed to pay EHB over $223 million in total damages.

What Was Approved: The Lennar Plan
To resolve the settlement, the City of Las Vegas sold the 250-acre Badlands property to Lennar Homes for $350 million. The Las Vegas City Council voted 6-0 in February 2025 to approve Lennar's development plan for the site. The approved plan calls for approximately 1,480 residential units across a mix of product types: roughly 560 single-family detached homes, plus townhomes and condominiums. No structure in the development may stand taller than 45 feet, and density is capped at no more than eight homes per acre. The plan dedicates 98 acres -- nearly 40 percent of the site -- to parks, landscaped trails, and recreational amenities. The development will operate as a completely separate community with its own HOA and its own four gated entry points. It will not be incorporated into Queensridge's existing HOA or gate structure.

Lennar has named the community The Preserve, with an anticipated opening year of 2028. Dirt work on the site began in 2026. Lennar has stated that single-family homes in The Preserve will be priced in the millions based on current market conditions, while townhome and condominium product will carry different price points. Specific floorplans and official pricing have not been publicly released as of early 2026.

What Queensridge Residents Are Concerned About
The community opposition to this development has been substantial and consistent. At a January 2025 meeting between Lennar representatives and nearly 200 Queensridge-area residents at the Veterans Memorial Community Center, concerns centered on four main issues: traffic impact on already-congested corridors around Rampart and Alta, school zoning capacity given the additional residential units, the impact on property values from adjacency to multi-family product like the condominiums, and the physical construction disruption that will accompany years of development activity on land that many residents have looked at as open space since 2016.

On the traffic and infrastructure side, Lennar has committed to traffic and drainage studies as pre-construction requirements mandated by the city approval. A drainage system upgrade is explicitly part of the development plan, addressing flood risk in what is a desert wash environment. On the property value question, the development is designed to sit at a lower elevation than existing Queensridge homes -- a deliberate design choice to preserve sightlines for current residents -- and a physical green space buffer with a wall will separate the new community from the existing Queensridge perimeter.

What This Means for Buyers and Current Owners
For current owners with homes that backed the former Badlands Golf Course, the reality is already reflected in the market: those homes have been pricing at a modest discount compared to comparable homes without that adjacency, precisely because buyers have been uncertain about what would eventually be built on that land. With the plan now approved and a known builder, known product type, known density cap, and known timeline, that uncertainty begins to resolve. Whether the resolved picture -- 1,480 units of Lennar product opening in 2028 with a separate gate and a green space buffer -- is net positive, net neutral, or net negative for adjacent home values is a question that depends heavily on individual lot position, view corridor, and how the finished Lennar product ultimately prices relative to Queensridge.

For buyers considering Queensridge now, homes that back the former Badlands site are worth evaluating specifically and individually. Some of those positions will be well-buffered and ultimately unaffected by the new construction. Others are more directly impacted. Understanding which is which requires walking the specific addresses, reviewing the site plan, and having a frank conversation about what the long-term picture looks like.

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