Southwest & Mountain's Edge
Typical home prices$$–$$$$$350k to $1.5M
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Rhodes Ranch
Guard-gated, golf, in Spring Valley town since 1996
Jim Rhodes's company started Rhodes Ranch in 1996 on about 1,450 acres in the southwest valley, roughly between Sunset Road/I-215 and Pebble Road and between Fort Apache Road and Durango Drive. It is built around the Rhodes Ranch Golf Club, a public course designed by Ted Robinson that opened in 1997. Residents have two guard-gated entrances, on Durango Drive and Fort Apache Road. After Rhodes's company went bankrupt in 2009, Dunhill Homes and then Century Communities (from 2014) continued building.
Photo: Daniel Kovachev, Public domain; Photo: Daniel Kovachev, Public domain
History of Southwest & Mountain's Edge
The southwest valley stayed rural much longer than the rest. A railroad stop called Arden grew up there in 1905 for gypsum miners, and the name Enterprise shows up as early as a 1918 school district. On December 17, 1996, Enterprise became an unincorporated town after residents petitioned the county to keep their semi-rural character and avoid annexation by Henderson.
That same year Jim Rhodes acquired land from the Bureau of Land Management for Rhodes Ranch, on the southwest edge of Spring Valley. Its golf course opened in November 1997. Other builders later finished the community.
Most of the growth came after 2000. Focus Property Group's Mountain's Edge, about 3,500 acres, began selling homes in 2004 and became one of the fastest-selling master plans in the country. Enterprise went from about 14,700 people in 2000 to more than 221,000 in 2020. Its oldest standing structure is a 1926 water tower, and UFC Apex opened there in 2019.