North Denton is on track to get a splashy new neighbor: Wildhaven, a proposed 740-acre luxury resort that would mix a private club, equestrian arenas, restaurants, and a roughly 100-room hotel with 152 high-end homes starting around $1.5 million. For a city already in growth mode, the scale and price tag put this among the most ambitious projects floated inside Denton in years.
Florida-based An Ki Land Development LLC is pushing the project under the Wildhaven name and says the first phase could start within the next year, according to the Dallas Business Journal. Plans call for a private club, on-site dining, equestrian facilities, and about 152 homes priced from roughly $1.5 million to more than $3 million, which firmly plants the neighborhood in the luxury bracket.
State corporate records list An Ki Land Development LLC as registered in Sarasota, Florida, with managers Logan Breen and Lawrence Hersom named on the filing, according to the Florida Division of Corporations. The company lists a Sarasota mailing address and filed its most recent annual report in April 2025.
Denton’s development boom
Wildhaven is arriving in the middle of Denton’s transformation into a hotbed for large master-planned communities. Hillwood’s $10 billion Landmark community and the newly under-construction Cole Ranch project are already reshaping the city’s growth map. Timelines and details on those projects have been laid out by the Houston Chronicle, which has tracked the regional surge in big-ticket residential development.
What Wildhaven would include
Concept materials for Wildhaven lean heavily into lifestyle and leisure rather than traditional mass-market housing. Plans call for a boutique hotel of about 100 keys, a private members’ club, curated restaurant options and multiple equestrian rings, along with trails and open space woven through the site. The master plan’s residential side, with 152 homes and several marketed at more than $3 million, would put Wildhaven in a premium tier for the Denton area, not exactly starter-home territory.
Project imagery and descriptions also credit design firms involved with the concept, signaling that the developer is working to sell not just houses, but a branded ranch-resort experience aimed at buyers who want space, amenities and room for horses.
Timeline, approvals and next steps
For all the glossy renderings, a project this size still has to run the usual local-government gauntlet. Wildhaven will need preliminary plats, site-plan review, and public hearings before any dirt can be turned. That permitting process is outlined by the City of Denton, which details submittal requirements, staff review, and opportunities for public input on large developments.
Local impacts and questions
With its luxury price point and equestrian focus, Wildhaven is likely to trigger familiar questions in Denton: how traffic will be handled on surrounding roads, what the strain on utilities might look like, and how a private-club resort neighborhood fits alongside existing communities and school zones.
Past debates over big master-planned projects have raised similar concerns, including transportation impacts, tax revenue projections, and how much open space gets preserved. Hillwood has published analyses that show how those conversations tend to unfold around large-scale developments and the tradeoffs cities weigh when they chase growth.
For now, Wildhaven remains a concept that will come into sharper focus as formal filings and plats land at City Hall, according to the City of Denton. Upcoming project documents and any scheduled public hearings will be the best chance for nearby residents to scrutinize maps, drill into timelines, and pore over traffic studies before the resort-neighborhood hybrid becomes a reality on the ground.
