Multi-family residential planned across from Marble Falls hospital
This ranchland on Texas 71 across from Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Marble Falls will be a 57-acre development with multi-family housing, retail space, a hotel, medical offices, and more. Staff photo by Dakota Morrissiey
A 57-acre development is in the works for the empty ranchland across Texas 71 from Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Marble Falls. It will consist of dozens of multi-family living units, retail space, a hotel, medical offices, and more.
H&H Ranch got phasing approval from the Marble Falls City Council on Tuesday, Oct. 8, and could break ground in early 2026.
The project also means improvements to that stretch of Texas 71—including a stoplight, restriping, wider lanes, and turn lanes—and a connecting road to the Gregg Ranch subdivision farther south.
Developer Darrel Sargent believes the area surrounding the Texas 71-U.S. 281 intersection is the future of progress in Marble Falls. H&H Ranch will sit on the west side of the major convergence, directly across from the hospital at 810 Texas 71.
“That intersection is the biggest in the Hill Country,” Sargent told DailyTrib.com. “It will be the primary driver of all retail.”
According to the approved plan, work will be done in two phases. Phase 1 could begin in January 2026 and Phase 2 in 2027 or 2028, depending on the progress and success of the first phase.
Phase 1 consists of building multi-family residences, a hotel, and possibly a self-storage facility. A new road, Buck Run, will be built to service the development. It will extend from Texas 71, across the highway from Baylor Scott & White Boulevard, and eventually connect to Gregg Ranch. The first phase also includes restriping a stretch of Texas 71 and installing conduit to service a future traffic signal in Phase 2.
Phase 2 consists of building medical offices and other commercial retail space along the highway. A traffic signal will be installed at the Buck Run-Baylor Scott & White Boulevard-Texas 71 intersection and turn lanes will be added to the highway. An existing small bridge over Texas 71 will be widened along with the stretch of road approaching the development from the west.
The project is two years in the making, with final platting approved. The phasing plan approval was the last step before the Texas Department of Transportation signed off on the development and the necessary changes to Texas 71 to accommodate them.