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The 330-acre project combines offices and company headquarters, more than 1,000,000 square feet (90,000 m) of retail including La
Frontera Village, three apartment complexes and specialized retail, banking and a medical rehabilitation hospital. The project also includes Williamson County's only
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Development also built the first office building, a 200,000-square-foot (19,000 m) multitenant building called 301 Sundance. Additional multi-tenant office buildings would be built by Koontz-McCombs of San Antonio, and Simmons Vedder of Austin. An additional six story building was
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purchased the first two office buildings, called
Frontera Vista I and II, in July 2011, moving their world headquarters to Round Rock and occupying 200,000 square feet (19,000 m) of office space with approximately 875 jobs, and a projected 10,000 room nights in area hotels.
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which was filmed in July and August 1973 in a dilapidated farm house on the La
Frontera property (located on what was originally Quick Hill Road). Twenty-five years later, in 1998, the house was cut into seven pieces and moved to
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A separate additional 50,000 square feet (5,000 m) retail center was developed by
Waterstone Development (of Austin), as well as numerous restaurant and bank pad retail sites were sold by the development
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among other corporate clients. The hotel was built by and is owned and operated by
Winegardner and Hammonds, Inc. of Cincinnati, Ohio, a hotel operating company.
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Austin development partners Don Martin and William S. "Bill" Smalling (1952-2009) along with William V. "Bill" Boecker were the developers of La Frontera.
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Winegardner and Hammonds in 1998 also purchased the final 2-acre (0.81 ha) site out of the original 330 acres, for a future additional hotel.
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a first for the county and an important component of Round Rock's and Williamson County's economic development efforts.
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full-service hotel, the Austin North Marriott which provides space for large conferences, meetings and banquets -
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