Talk To Scott

There are really three parts to College Hills: the original College Hills Subdivision, which was built for the most part in the 1950’s, College Hills South( built in the ‘60’s), which is wedged in between Loop 306 and the Red Arroyo, and College Hills West ( built in the “70’s), which is basically all of the streets that spill out onto Southwest Boulevard between Sunset Mall and Sherwood Way. Nice neighborhoods one and all.
Below are 10 things that you might want to know about College Hills but were afraid to ask.
• What in the pluperfect heck was the developer thinking when he named the streets? I mean I get it. All the streets are named after colleges. Someone who is familiar with the old Southwest Conference will feel right at home—except he left out Texas. Come on, this IS Texas! I mean how does SMU get in there but not Texas?
• How can you exclude Texas and add Harvard and Yale? What the heck? I mean the developer jumped up the IQ of the entire neighborhood when he added Rice. Tulane didn’t hurt either. Everyone knows that Louisiana is just extreme East Texas. For the life of me I can’t understand why he thought he had to add in the Ivy League.
• College Hills South streets are different. I guess the new builders ran out of colleges and chose a tree motif. Tanglewood, Hemlock, Oak Forest, etc. are the streets names that come to mind.
• College Hills West has another name among realtors—Pickettville. The entire subdivision was built by Freeman Pickett, who put up street after street on what was the southwest end of San Angelo in the 1970’s. Mr. Pickett’s floor plans still work today.
• College Hills is a great location. It is close to everything: mall, the university, HEB, Sherwood Way—San Angelo’s new entertainment area.
• Houses are affordable. Most of the homes are less than $150,000. The average guy and his family can live there.
• Good schools. Bowie and Crockett Elementaries service the area. THE SCHOOL DISTRICT DIDN’T FORGET THIS WAS TEXAS!!!! None of the streets are very far from Glenn Middle School, which Bowie and Crockett students attend. Ok, I know John Glenn is from Ohio, a pretty serious lapse, on the part of San Angelo Independent School District, but he is an American that we can all admire.
• Love the trees. I think that one of the neat things about our town is our trees. These neighborhoods are ones that would make the Arbor society proud. Lots of shade for our San Angelo summers.
• Good resale. I have owned houses on A&M, Oxford (after which I lost my Texas accent), University, and Inglewood and did well on each sale. I think that most people have to think about that. I did and it worked for me and my family.
• Oops, almost ran out of things and had to cut this one reason short. Great area for college students. Close to Angelo State University. It would be a terrific place for parents who are looking to get a house for their student to live in while in college. The math on that is really easy. Would you rather your money go to the dorm or to something you own and have a chance to built equity in? Easy choice, plus there is a tax write-off.
Special town, San Angelo, Texas—with special neighborhoods.