Was just here last night, it’s 5 min from us. There’s nothing to do here except take a small walk. Cavalier is fantastic food. The community is for retired people, and it’s much higher priced. Everything in TX can be pretty until 100 degree weather hits

I live in Corpus Christi. The village he built here is nice, looks the same but is not quite as big. It has a chapel and a working lighthouse. I wondered where the idea came from. Pretty cool.

Drove by here many times. Was always Gobsmacked by how beautiful it is.

29 күн бұрын

but at the end of the day its all just still apartments with a pretty facade.. slaves to the system pay their rents to the big LLCs who are getting richer by the day while the renters lose their money

I like Texas bucket list videos on KZread from the imperial county California 🇺🇲🇺🇲

I like it. God bless him for trying to do something positive for people beyond a roof over their head.

As a native Texan and someone that grew up in Dallas, when I first started watching this piece I thought to myself you have got to be kidding…. But the further I got into the video I changed my mind. It’s not about faux European look, but the fact that the developer realized the village needed a florist and then subsidized that florist. That is impressive to me. In general I believe most people involved in real estate are nothing more than greedy parasites but this developer may be trying to change that

I love that place! And there is going to be another one in Corpus? Fantastic!

Another awesome episode of the Texas Bucket List with Shane I've been to McKinney several times and never knew this village was there but I'm glad to hear about it Thanks Shane.🇺🇲🤠👋🇺🇲

Yessss love the video!!! Good job both Mr Blackard and Texas Bucketlist!!!

He mentioned Croatia, Europe in general. Built, adapted to people. All the streets, to walk into town,without feeling like they are. It’s very nice.

It’s a beautiful place it’s my favorite place to go.

Make stone architecture great again.

That is an amazing village but that cobblestone road really tests how quiet your car is. You'll hear EVERY creak in your car and it's suspension. LOL

love fresh flowers

Wish i would have known y'all were there, i live just across the street.

I lived in FloMo (Denton Cnty) since 2010 and I’ve never heard of this development (then again, I’ve never really ventured further than Downtown Dallas and Fort Worth, Highland/University Parks, South Lake, Coppell, Plano and Frisco)

Good day to all.

This exact idea, but maybe having a car parking area outside of the village would be great. It's still very road and car centric, but one step in the right direction.

They started something like this in, Georgetown Tx….the layout was kind of Italian, a beautiful design, there was a lake and an amphitheater and a building that looked like a church. The plans came out before Covid, well, it’s 2024 and apartments and condos have gone up, but all the other stuff that was shown in the original plans are nowhere to be seen. Maybe latter on, but now it’s just another apartment complex thats prettier than the rest of the other apartments going up everywhere in and around town. This place in McKinney look pretty nice. Something different.

Wonderful concept!

Very cool.

I hope he does a project in Houston!

I've been waiting for him to build the village in corpus for seven years already...

Bro took SIM City to a new level.

Sounds like a 15 minute city to me.

And the The Guitar Sanctuary is there if you enjoy live music..

Does it have a grocery store? I grew up in small town Texas and the grocery store, drug store, florist, etc made our small town community

@RGJ770

7 күн бұрын

There’s a grocery store across the street.

I like Jeff 👍

yall dont need to add any music in the background

Much better than the soulless, generic subdivisions that are so pervasive today

He figured out that we Americans design our cities wrong based on zoning and parking requirements.

Hmmm 🤔 my x bought a house there and just sold it, said it got too big to fast . They are moving to Oklahoma, cheeper

Should get together with Mate Rimac and build his factory there…and another village 😅

All future real estate should be built this way even though I doubt big corporations will allow for it since it siphons money and influence away from them.

@garyjackson3531

5 күн бұрын

They can make more money on a master planned community than a simple housing development.

I wonder if he speaks Serbo/Croatian and if he has roots there.

Yep it’s really nice but very expensive !!!!!!

Poundsbury, inspired by King Charles was the first of the planned villages. Then came Seaside, Rosemary Beach, Alys Beach, Schooner Bay....and many more. Hats off to you, Sir! It is the way most of us can connect again.

Wonder how Sulphur Speings is going to take the village,they hate growth and aren’t the best people to adjust to this style of living

@bmiles4131

27 күн бұрын

It’ll just be a fancy housing development. Businesses will grow outside of it and maybe kill the main-street area. I was going to retire out in the country there, now it will be too expensive. Have to go further out in the country I guess.

It’s pretty but I don’t think Texans have the same mentality as people in Croatia. There are shops and restaurants and doctors offices but in the actual housing area you don’t even see people walking around or congregating. I think the main difference is Texans basically live in their cars. Everywhere we need to go requires driving. So it’s very hard to get that village feel. Just my two cents.

It looks like apartment complexes with a little church thrown in. Flower Mound has something like that too. Not “European Village” in any shape or form.

@1BobsYourUncle

27 күн бұрын

Ok Karen…

Its not really a true village when its packed full of corporate apartment buildings and the both the residents and shops all pay rent to some big LLC

@garyjackson3531

5 күн бұрын

Run along Democrat. The adults are talking.

Did I miss something?? He said he realized that everything he had been developing was segregating and he wanted to build a village that did not separate people by income levels. A village where everyone could come together share wisdom, ideas, political views blah blah blah Kumbaya. These home prices don't show any kind of disparity. Someone please educate me. Thank you.

@KASVENTURES

12 күн бұрын

Of course. Inside Adriatica village is an apartment complex for those of us who can’t afford a house here but want to live here. Rent is not the cheapest in the area, but it’s not crazy expensive either. I’ve been living here for 3 years and I love it! I have neighbors that are teachers, Amazon workers, college students, nurses, etc… you should come visit. We have a video on Adriatica village in our channel in case you want to check it out

Apartments are the only thing they are building now in Texas. It’s so sad.

@garyjackson3531

5 күн бұрын

Not true.

Nope...small area...Too many people.

@SK-lf1cr

Ай бұрын

lol,you ever head of high density areas? 😂😂

I'd move there just to forget for a moment that I really live in one very politically screwed up state where believing that all life is precious means you have to carry a gun on you like Jesus did....

@garyjackson3531

5 күн бұрын

What are you prattling on about? Jesus told his followers who didn't have swords to sell their cloak and buy one. If guns had existed, you better believe Jesus would have had one. This is the United States of America. Keeping and bearing arms is a Constitutionally guaranteed and protected Basic Human Right. If that bothers you, you are free to leave.

@rvasquez8057

5 күн бұрын

@@garyjackson3531 Ah, spoken like a True Loving American Christian. Sorry, I forgot all that turn the other cheek, love thy neighbor, I tell you, If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink; But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be the sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men, the Lord will reward you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, all that was just meaningless Bible Babble. Jesus would have been strapped with an AK and Glock and blown the heads of all those folks who doubted him. Jesus was just another Charles Whitman waiting in a tower.... You must be reading from the New Texan Bible version..... Peace Be With You Brother, or Else.....

I lived there for a year its a shithole

@TeutonicTribe

15 күн бұрын

You might be right but as someone curious here who chanced upon this vid, your opinion is a bit shit itself w/o giving a few reasons why.

Sold out.... totally non-discreet advertising....

The last thing they want to see is low income people living in Adriatic. I will buy into his village dream when Section 8 housing is built in the community and it's proves successful.

@torreyweaver

Ай бұрын

The properties on the bank across from Adriatica are million $. There's really no room in this area to build anything new.

@bonesandbells

Ай бұрын

It's relative "low income" in that area for their $1,698/mo. 1 bedroom apartment. Larger and recurring profits with these apartments than selling houses for the developer.

@micmousebg

Ай бұрын

I hope they never build any Section 8 near where I live.

29 күн бұрын

Section 8 is a plague that's forced on society because the system is broken

@thomasbrogan8036

28 күн бұрын

@bozomonster 🤮

Another joke project. It’s so small and its surroundings are already fully developed. So this basically already complete

@SK-lf1cr

Ай бұрын

You are in the Middle of McKinney 😂😂 that’s to be expected

29 күн бұрын

I call em Lipstick projects... they look really nice but at the end of the day they are nothing more than overpriced apartments for the slaves of the system, who continue to get poorer while the owners get richer

The village would be twice as beautiful with gardens and landscaping. Architecture is only half the equation.