Branson Meadows is a part of a 400 +/- acre land assemblage we have been working with to locate the ¼ mile Model. As it is improved development ground, we would like to purchase as much land as possible, up to $40 million for packaging and sales of transit villages. Estimated return to investors, if we just wholesale the land, is $64 million. However if we develop one of the Villages for $30 million in additional capital, an additional $35 million profit is estimated. The only village we may want to build is the Retirement Village because it is driven by presales, built in modules and marketed to the 77 million “Baby Boomers” soon to retire. We are offering to take a 25% profits interest for management and the funders own it all.

Branson Meadows is the largest parcel of undeveloped but improved land inside the city limits and lies strategically between the 5 mile Entertainment District loop shown in dotted red line above and the 7 mile future Loop connecting to downtown and the proposed Convention Center.

We met with the owner of adjacent land to the east. It is bounded by SOH parkway on the North and the river road on the south. It is raw land with no roads or utilities. They do not have a price on it at present. I have suggested to them that they get it appraised and then we discuss a purchase. If we appraised it first, I think a $1.12 psf price might be possible with a prompt closing. What ever the price, this would give us about a 400 acre assemblage that could appeal to national developers. A Smartskyways loop as shown below, will link this property  to the entertainment district, Branson Meadows and downtown. Such a loop would be about 2.5 miles. It’s costs of $37.5 million could be paid for with Tax Increment Financing (TIF) and just approval for this loop should increase the land value above $5 psf. The 247 aces on the east side could be planned for a series of attractions as shown above that could exceed one billion dollars of development potential. This large site combined with a local loop that connects to 12 million planned visitors on Route 76 could attract many national development companies

By installing this 1mile, we create the equivalent of being on Route 76 where the action is and to downtown, and in fact most of the town. People visiting or owning property at Branson Meadows would not have to drive their car and yet are accessible to everything. This AGT extension creates an opportunity to recast Branson Meadows as a series of   “Transit VILLAGES”. This project represents an opportunity to show how real estate is impacted by AGT access.  At the same time, the AGT system gives instant access from the Entertainment District to the Villages for pedestrians. Each village can also have a golf cart pathway collecting and distributing passengers to their final destination. It is our contention this will significantly increase the values of these properties.

There are many features built into this plan to attract the pricing. It has most of the retail and recreation services needed in the middle along a 25’ wide Pedestrian Mall that connects to the AGT station. It also has a golf cart pathway around the loop street that connects to the AGT station. Users can just leave the golf carts at selected points when they are finished for someone else to use. If the golf cart strays more than a few feet from this path it will quit running, so people wont take them home.

174 Room hotel (optional purchase) At this writing, this hotel can be purchased for $2.5 million ($15,000 per room). A local marketing company will guarantee up to $1,000,000 in room rentals per year for a piece of the ownership.  Hotels in Branson started as small mom and pop places with cheap rents about 15 years ago. As the tourism traffic has grown, larger hotels and national chains have been building bigger and more expensive lodging. Now to build a hotel on the strip, it requires that existing building be torn down or go elsewhere. This hotel can be acquired for  substantially less than replacement costs. It comes furnished and has a pool, lobby, adequate parking spaces and no restaurant. It is currently in operation.