Local developer Bitterblue Group/Denton Communities is winding down its overall residential development in Shavano Park and now focusing on marketing commercial properties inside the North Side city.

The Shavano Park City Council on Feb. 28 received a local development update from Daryl Lange, founder and managing broker of Bitterblue Group, Denton’s umbrella company.

Lange provided information on Huntington at Shavano Park, a residential neighborhood east of Northwest Military Highway, and Pond Hill Garden Villas, a garden home neighborhood west of Northwest Military.

Lange said all 128 existing lots in Huntington are contracted, and construction on a fifth unit of home development in Huntington will be finished this March.

Lange said all 39 garden homes in the Pond Hill Garden Villas Unit 1 development are contracted with construction on another 19 homes in Pond Hill Garden Villas set to start in April or May.

“Everything is basically completed there,” Lange said of Pond Hill Garden Villas Unit 1.

Lange also provided information on commercial developments at Shavano Ridge, in the De Zavala Road/Lockhill Selma Road area and near the Pond Hill Garden Villas.

Lange said Bitterblue/Denton is preplanning the development of an 8.7-acre small retail/office space at Lockhill Selma and Indian Woods Street, wrapping it around the Walmart Neighborhood Market.

“We’re doing drainage studies, utilities and retention work there,” Lange said off the 8.7-acre lot.

According to Lange, four neighboring commercial pads along Indian Woods and De Zavala are either under development or having a contract pending with a tenant.

Lange said a car wash is in the works at one of the aforementioned commercial pads along De Zavala.

“It’s good to see development along Indian Wells,” Lange said.

Lange also said preplanning is underway for a 2.2-acre small retail/medical development at the De Zavala/Lockhill Selma intersection.

Bitterblue is developing two small tracts of land totaling 6.83 acres between Pond Hill Road and Loop 1604 for commercial use immediately west of Northwest Military, Lange said.

Lange also said his firm is developing four other commercial spaces totaling more than 7 acres between Collins Circle/Pond Hill Road and Loop 1604, immediately east of Northwest Military.

According to Lange, a Bill Miller Bar-B-Q restaurant is planned for development next to an existing Whataburger along Collins Circle/Pond Hill Road at Loop 1604.

Additionally, a Generations Federal Credit Unit is being developed next to an existing Starbucks at Loop 1604 and Northwest Military, Lange said.

Bitterblue is pre-planning three commercial development tracts totaling 24 acres immediately south and east of Collins Circle/Pond Hill Road and the Lynd Co. corporate office, inside Loop 1604, Lange said.

Lange said the larger of three tracts, in the development that he calls Pond Hill East could accommodate a small hotel and restaurant, something that can generate sales tax revenue for Shavano Park.

“We have significant drainage that we need to work through here,” Lange said. “This is a complicated piece of land.”

Lange said his firm is also developing a 2.5-acre commercial tract inside Loop 1604 between the Shavano Park Senior Living community and Huntington West office building.

Additionally, Lange said his company is developing several small commercial lots between Loop 1604 and Napier Park, a residential street near Blattman Elementary School.

According to Lange, eight of the Napier Park commercial lots have been sold; a ninth has a sale pending.