Cypress Creek Lakes Community News

School cafeteria food sure isn’t what it used to be! These days Cy-Fair ISD students are given a wide variety of tasty and nutritious options each lunch period to encourage them to feed their bodies, which turn feeds their minds.

Join the Cy-Fair ISD Food Service Department, along with students, parents, and faculty at the Annual Food Tasting on Thursday, February 9, from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm at the Berry Center.

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If you need a picture taken, Cypress is now a community with no shortage of skilled amateur photographers at your disposal.

33 Cy-Fair ISD students recently earned awards at the 2011 Association of Texas Photography Instructors (ATPI) Fall Contest on Saturday, November 12.

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The Texas Legislature has made significant changes to the requirements for homestead exemptions.

These affect all types of homestead exemptions, not just the regular homestead exemptions. The changes also affect over-65 exemptions, over-55 surviving spouse exemptions, disability exemptions, and the 100% Disabled Veteran exemptions (all of which are considered homestead exemptions). Any new applications as of September 1 must comply with all requirements.

Effective September 1, 2011, in order to qualify for a residential homestead exemption you must provide HCAD with a copy of either your Texas driver’s license or Texas ID Card. This address must also be the same as the address on your vehicle registration. Attach a copy of your vehicle registration receipt to your homestead application.

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The Memorial Hermann Mischer Neuroscience Institute has been in the news frequently over the past few months, leaving some wondering what is the connection between Mischer Development Company and this world-class medical facility.

As part of their commitment to the community and their support of healthcare and research, in 2005, the Mischer Family invested in the neuroscience program at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center. The result was the Mischer Neuroscience Institute (MNI), a comprehensive neurological and neurosurgical program that brings together a team of world-class clinicians, researchers and educators whose insights and research findings are transforming the field of neuroscience. The Institute is built on a foundation of long-term collaboration between Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center and The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, and patients come to MNI from around the world for treatment of rare and common diseases of the brain and spinal cord.

Part of the 11-hospital Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, the Mischer Neuroscience Institute is the largest and most comprehensive neuroscience program in Texas. They currently perform more neurosurgical procedures than any other hospital system in Houston and are nationally recognized for leading-edge medicine. MNI is consistently ranked among quality benchmarking organizations as a leader in clinical quality and patient safety. The Institute was the first center in Texas and one of only a few institutions in the country to fully integrate neurology, neurosurgery, neuroradiology and neurorehabilitation through comprehensive, specialized treatment centers and close collaboration between all involved disciplines.

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Mischer Development, known for its successful communities in the Houston market for 65 years, is revolutionizing the way people shop for homes. Cypress Creek Lakes, Mischer’s community in Northwest Houston, is the first to offer Columbus Community Navigator, a web application that provides a better way to search for homes.

Columbus, unlike most table-based systems, displays available properties on a hand-drawn map that sits on top of the Google Maps API. The map can be viewed at a number of different zoom levels, from the entire community at once down to a very small section of lots. This gives home shoppers a bird’s eye view of the community, showing the home’s location in proximity to the community’s lakes, schools and other amenities as well as giving them a feel for the community’s innovative master plan.

Site visitors are finding the system very user-friendly and like the fact that they can sort the home information and pinpoint a specific house on the map based on what is most important to them -- whether it be price, builder, square footage or other criteria. Once a home has been selected on the map, more details can then be displayed, giving the user a complete description as well as a photo gallery of the home. The details screen also provides a contact form to get in touch with the sales person for more information or to schedule a time to view the home. To see the interactive map visit http://www.cypresscreeklakes.com/homes.

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Cypress Creek Lakes has a new entry monument now under construction at the north edge of the community’s frontage on Fry Road. The new monument, designed by the highly-acclaimed KGA DeForest Design Landscape Architecture team, will create a new front door for this 1,600-acre northwest Houston master-planned community.

The marker has been designed so that the feature will step down along the shore of one of the community’s lakes and connect to the community’s main fountain feature through a series of smaller markers.

Mischer Development’s Marketing Director, Randy Corson, said this new entry is a result of comments conveyed to the developer from the community’s builders, residents and local real estate agents. “We regularly survey our homeowners and meet with our builders and Realtors and we really do listen to their suggestions and comments,” said Corson. The suggestion that Cypress Creek Lakes current entry feature did not match the grand scale and scope of the community is one that Mischer Development took seriously.

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North Cypress Medical Center’s Cardiac Rehabilitation Center is now nationally recognized by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR) as an accredited Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation center.

The AACVPR reviews individual facilities for adherence to standards and guidelines that are developed and or published by the AACVPR and other professional societies.

This recognition makes North Cypress Cardiac Rehabilitation Center the only certified program in the Cypress Fairbanks area. The medical center helps patients recovering from heart attack, heart surgery, angioplasty and stable angina and programs at their center include individual exercise, education and support for lifestyle modifications.

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Gexa Energy headquarter relocation to Cypress

By JAMES RIDGWAY, Jr.

Gexa Energy will move its Houston operations, including its in-house customer care center, to the Centre at Cypress Creek, a newly renovated space on the former HP campus located on Highway 249 near Beltway 8.

Ivan Madrigal, director of revenue assurance and quality at Gexa Energy, said the move will bring several economic benefits to the local communities.

"We'll be filling occupancy vacancies, bringing a 300 plus workforce, and hiring immediately for several openings both now and as we continue to grow," Madrigal said.

Madrigal himself recently relocated to the cypress area in anticipation for the company's big move.

Gexa will be transitioning from a 50,000 square foot facility to 65,000. By January, Gexa Energy is expected to occupy most of Centre at Cypress Creek's four-story complex.

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Do cities have a future? Pessimists point to industrial-era holdovers like Detroit and Cleveland. Urban boosters point to dense, expensive cities like New York, Boston and San Francisco. Yet if you want to see successful 21st-century urbanism, hop on down to Houston and the Lone Star State.

You won't be alone: Last year Houston added 141,000 residents, more than any region in the U.S. save the city's similarly sprawling rival, Dallas-Fort Worth. Over the past decade Houston's population has grown by 24%--five times the rate of San Francisco, Boston and New York. In that time it has attracted 244,000 new residents from other parts of the U.S., while older cities experienced high rates of out-migration. It is even catching up on foreign immigration, enjoying a rate comparable with New York's and roughly 50% higher than that of Boston or Chicago.

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