Since 2015 · Greater Houston
The plan outlives everyone who drew it.
Lasting communities start with thoughtful land development.
Currently in Development
Sterling Traditions
A 587-acre community in Dayton, Texas, planned for 1,800 homesites and delivered in phases to five national and regional homebuilders.
We take the long position on land.
Benson Development acquires residential land in the Greater Houston region, carries it through entitlement and horizontal construction, and delivers finished homesites to the builders who will sell the homes. We are not a fee developer and we are not a homebuilder.
Portfolio
Nine communities, and the shape of how we grew.
Benson Development began with single neighborhoods and the relationships they built. The work since has been larger tracts, longer horizons, and communities planned as whole places.
Harris and Brazoria County subdivisions
The firm's first communities were single-neighborhood subdivisions in Tomball, Alvin, Angleton and Richwood — projects small enough that we knew every lot line personally. This is where the working relationships with builders, engineers, districts and city staff were built, and those relationships are what the later work runs on.
Multi-phase, multi-builder
Moving east along the US-90 corridor into Liberty County meant larger tracts, several builders on a single project, and district financing as a normal part of the capital stack rather than an exception. Sterling Traditions is the firm's first community planned end to end as a single place — 587 acres, 1,800 homesites, a five-builder roster, and an amenity program funded as part of the plan rather than promised for later. Further master-planned communities are in acquisition and entitlement.
Builders & Brokers
Looking for lots in the Houston market?
Takedown schedules, lot mix and community collateral are available on request.
Our Approach
Development is a sequence, not a transaction.
A community is decided long before the first lot is sold. It is decided in the drainage study, in the development agreement, in the district structure, and in the twenty acres someone chose not to build on.
Benson Development was founded in 2015 to take residential land positions in the Greater Houston market and see them all the way through. We control the property, we carry the entitlement risk, and we build the horizontal infrastructure — then we deliver finished, ready-to-permit homesites to the builders best suited to the community.
What we hold ourselves to: a plan the city would defend in a public meeting, an amenity program that is funded rather than promised, and a phasing schedule a builder can staff against.
The Sequence
From contract to community
Acquisition & Underwriting
Off-market sourcing and broker relationships, feasibility, market study, and the capital structure — contract, option or land bank — that matches the entitlement runway.
Due Diligence
Title and survey, environmental, geotechnical, wetlands and floodplain, minerals, existing leases and utility capacity. Nothing closes on assumptions.
Entitlements
Zoning and PUD applications, development and utility agreements, park credits and public meetings. We staff our own entitlement work rather than outsourcing the relationship.
District Finance
MUD, PID and TIRZ formation and reimbursement — the mechanism that funds water, sewer, drainage and roads without loading the whole cost onto the lot price.
Land Planning & Design
Land use, lot mix, amenity programming and design guidelines, developed with the builder partners who will actually sell the homes.
Horizontal Construction
Platting, clearing, detention, utilities, paving and amenity construction — phased against the takedown schedule and tracked draw by draw.
Builder Delivery
Lot closings, architectural review, model park coordination, and the marketing runway that gets the first homes sold.
Community Turnover
HOA formation and transition, amenity completion and long-term maintenance structure — the part that determines how the place ages.
Company
Family owned. Rooted in tradition.
A Texas family building Texas communities — the same people, the same standards, from the first neighborhood to the largest.
Benson Development LLC is a family-owned company, founded in 2015 to develop residential communities across Greater Houston.
The firm started with single-neighborhood subdivisions in Tomball, Alvin, Angleton and Richwood. It now takes on larger multi-phase communities with their own amenity programs, district financing and builder rosters.
Leadership
Who you will be dealing with

Will Benson
Will founded Benson Development in 2015 and drives the firm's investment and development strategy across Greater Houston. He has held principal ownership in residential and commercial real estate projects, served in senior management at a civil engineering firm, and managed facilities for a global oilfield services company. Earlier in his career he worked in industrial park development and in city government on planning and economic development. He holds a degree in Political Science from Texas A&M University and has served on Planning & Zoning, Economic Development and credit union boards.

Katie Benson
Katie co-founded the firm and oversees its financial operations — capital structure, lender relationships, project accounting, and company assets from acquisition through disposition. She brings principal ownership experience in real estate development alongside earlier management roles across marketing, accounting, procurement and contract management. She graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in Business.

Peyton deGroot
Peyton supports land acquisition and development across the firm's active projects — underwriting and due diligence, entitlement coordination, development finance, and day-to-day project management with engineers, consultants and district counsel. He graduated from the University of Houston with a degree in Economics and a minor in Entrepreneurship.
Contact
Get in touch
- Office
- Onyx One
17225 El Camino Real, Suite 444
Houston, TX 77058 - Admin@bensondev.com
- Phone
- 832-353-4606