An 840-acre master-planned community taking shape near Godley, southwest of Fort Worth, has sold roughly 315 homes and completed about 275 of them as it pushes into its second and third phases of construction. Silo Mills, built by developer Terra Manna in partnership with Tabernacle Equity, is now adding two more homebuilders to its roster as it works through an estimated 1,800 remaining lots on its way to about 2,300 homes at build-out.
New Builders Join a Growing Lineup
Terra Manna, which is based in Dallas-Fort Worth, announced it would bring in additional builders to widen the kinds of homes available at Silo Mills, according to The Dallas Morning News. Perry Homes is set to build 47 homes on 50-foot homesites, while Taft Homes will offer 45 homes on 60-foot homesites, with both builders expecting to complete model homes by early 2027, per the same report. They join Bloomfield Homes and Chesmar Homes, which already offer homes ranging from 1,800 to 4,200 square feet. Bloomfield started selling homes in its newest phase after lots were delivered in February, the newspaper reported. Terra Manna developer Bret Pedigo told the Morning News that Silo Mills has left about 1,800 lots to develop and that homes across the community are priced from roughly $330,000 to $620,000.
Builder materials list a slightly different trio working the ground at Silo Mills: Antares Homes, Bloomfield Homes and Chesmar Homes, according to the community's own site. That same site describes the project as nestled between Godley and Joshua, west of the Chisholm Trail Parkway along Farm-to-Market Road 917, while the Morning News places the development within the extraterritorial jurisdictions of Burleson and Cleburne. Separate developer materials from 2021 pegged the project's eventual size at 2,500 home sites, a larger figure than the roughly 2,300 homes cited by Pedigo in the newer report.
A Small-Town Pitch Built Around One High School
Pedigo said Terra Manna relied on the strength and culture of the local school district when it picked the site near FM 917 within Godley Independent School District back in 2019, expecting the community feel to be well received. The developer wanted Silo Mills to have a more small-town feel in an area served by a single high school, according to the Morning News account. The community includes Pleasant View Elementary School, and students began attending that campus in January 2023, according to the Texas Observer, which reported that drilling waste had been spread across several hundred acres of land on which the school and the Silo Mills development now sit.
Beyond the school, Silo Mills has developed its first phase of homes and initial amenities, including a pool, beer garden and fishing pier, the Morning News reported. Pedigo said Silo Mills could seek to add more property to the development and that the surrounding area has room for grocers and neighborhood retail sites. Terra Manna anticipates roughly 12 to 15 more years of development on land it already owns, according to Pedigo's account in the newspaper.
Godley's Population Boom Behind the Build-Out
The growth tracks a dramatic shift for Godley itself. The town had just 1,441 residents in 2020 and had grown to about 5,093 residents by 2025, per U.S. Census Bureau estimates cited in the Morning News report. Godley ISD has felt that growth directly: district enrollment climbed by 821 students, or 37.6%, between the 2018-19 and 2023-24 school years, and by 191 students, or 6.8%, in the most recent year alone, according to Godley ISD.
As of September 2024, the district had 29 actively building subdivisions with more than 1,600 available lots, plus 19 future subdivisions holding over 16,400 lots in the planning stages, the district reported. Godley ISD projects enrollment will top 4,100 students by the 2029-30 school year and surpass 5,300 by 2034-35. New-home sales made up 64% of total home sales in the district in 2023, up 14% from the year before, the district noted, while a 2021 analysis from Prophet Equity found new-home construction activity in the area had more than tripled over the prior four years, with more than 300 annual starts.
How Silo Mills Compares to a West Fort Worth Rival
Silo Mills is not the only sprawling master-planned project reshaping the region. Brown Ranch, a 1,476-acre development crossing Tarrant and Parker counties, is planned for about 3,800 homes along with roughly 70 acres of commercial space, according to the Fort Worth Report. That project, set within Aledo ISD, calls for at least three amenity centers, 10 neighborhood parks and an interconnected trail system, with builders including Beazer Homes, DRB Homes, HistoryMaker Homes, Meritage Homes, Pulte Homes and Risewell Homes. Fort Worth plans to extend water and sewer service to the site, with a municipal utility district helping fund new infrastructure, the Report noted.
