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The Retreat amenity center at Goodland featured in Dallas Business Journal

2 min readBy Southland Team
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Southland Consulting Engineers is excited to see The Retreat Amenity Center at Goodland featured in the Dallas Business Journal. Our team provided civil engineering and permitting services for this addition to the Goodland community, and we appreciate Provident for the opportunity to be part of it.

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Southland's broader role at Goodland

In addition to The Retreat amenity center, Southland collaborates closely with PRA and other consultants to continue bringing the Goodland 5,000+ acre master-planned vision to life — in partnership with the City of Grand Prairie. Goodland is one of the largest master-planned community efforts in DFW, with the long-term capacity for 10,000+ homes plus retail, healthcare, schools, and meaningful employment within the community.

Our engineering involvement spans many aspects of the project:

  • 📌 Major Thoroughfare Plan (MTP) and Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) updates for master road, water, and sewer improvements
  • 📌 Certificate of Convenience and Necessity (CCN) coordination with multiple jurisdictions — including the careful work of aligning service-area boundaries with multiple water and wastewater providers
  • 📌 Detailed design of residential phases, amenities, and overall infrastructure
  • 📌 Entitlements and infrastructure to service the future data center campus at Goodland

Why this scale of work matters

Master-planned communities of 5,000+ acres are rare in DFW and require sustained, multi-year civil engineering across every phase. Decisions made at the master-plan level — thoroughfare alignments, regional detention, utility CCN boundaries, data center power and water demand — cascade through every parcel that gets built. Getting these foundational engineering decisions right is what makes the community buildable for the next generation of residents and businesses.

It's been a rewarding challenge to bring creative engineering solutions to a community of this scale and ambition. Read more about Goodland Parkway opening in south Grand Prairie, and the broader Goodland development story in The Dallas Morning News.

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