Builder opens big new community at former mining site in Henderson

A homebuilding elephantine has opened a large caller assemblage astatine a cleaned-up erstwhile manganese mining tract successful Henderson.

PulteGroup announced that it held a expansive opening Thursday for Aries, its caller master-planned assemblage on the southbound broadside of Lake Mead Parkway astir 5 miles northeast of Boulder Highway.

Aries spans much than 1,100 acres, and 5 subdivisions are present unfastened for sale, with prices ranging from the $300,000-range to the $500,000-range, according to a quality release.

It volition besides diagnostic homes from PulteGroup-owned Del Webb, which develops 55-and-over communities.

Plus, Aries volition person parks with pickleball and soil volleyball courts, splash pads, play areas and BBQ pits, the builder said.

Aries occupies the erstwhile Three Kids Mine site, which produced manganese for the U.S. authorities betwixt 1917 and 1961, according to the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection.

During that time, manganese ore was chiefly utilized for the operation of ships and tanks during World War I and World War II, the part reported.

Overall, the redevelopment task country spans 1,146 acres, but among that, lone 410 acres comprised the “impacted area” of the erstwhile mine, according to the division.

The estimated cleanup costs came to astir $257 million, the part reported, adding that the contaminants recovered astatine the tract included arsenic, lead, petroleum hydrocarbons, dioxins and asbestos.

Anthony Molloy, manager of redevelopment, economical improvement and tourism for the metropolis of Henderson, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal successful June that each the remediation enactment had been completed.

There was nary biology contamination anyplace connected the erstwhile mining site, helium noted, adding the lone cleanup enactment near astatine the clip was to haul disconnected discarded rock.

City records amusement plans for upwards of 3,000 homes connected and astir the erstwhile Three Kids Mine site.

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Contact Eli Segall astatine esegall@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-383-0342.