Nine new apartment buildings just got permitted in one afternoon at Easton Park, the 2,700-acre master-planned community in far Southeast Austin — 312,422 square feet of residential construction, filed as a single block of 35 permits on September 25. According to ATX Things' review of city permit records, the buildings sit on Hillock Terrace in the Bluff Springs neighborhood, on land still owned by Brookfield Residential's local development arm. Here's what the filings actually show, and what's already built nearby.
What exactly got permitted?
The City of Austin issued 35 separate building permits on September 25, all to the same contractor, all at the same two addresses: 8920 and 8921 Hillock Terrace. Pulled directly from the city's permit data and cross-checked building by building, they break down to:
| What | Count | Combined size |
|---|---|---|
| Apartment buildings | 9 | 312,422 sq ft |
| Clubhouse / fitness building | 1 | 9,065 sq ft |
| Detached garages | 7 | 12,849 sq ft |
| Carports | 14 | 13,230 sq ft |
| Trash enclosures | 4 | 832 sq ft |
Each of the nine residential buildings runs three stories on the site plan, ranging from 33,676 to 35,745 square feet apiece. The contractor of record on every permit is Clark Wilson Builders INC., an Austin-based general contractor that describes itself on its own site as having built more than $1 billion worth of multifamily real estate.
Every one of the 35 permits lists an identical $1,000,000 total valuation — city permit systems often stamp a placeholder or minimum-fee figure at the intake stage rather than a real construction cost, the same pattern that's inflated other permit-based estimates before. Treat that number as a filing artifact, not the project's actual price tag; the real construction cost isn't public yet.
Whose land is this, and what's Easton Park?
The property belongs to Carma Easton LLC, a Brookfield Residential entity — city site-plan records list Chad Matheson as the owner contact. Carma Easton LLC has held the Easton Park land since 2011, when Brookfield Properties (which bought Carma Developers, a Calgary-based land company, in 1987) restructured it under that name. The civil engineering work on the multifamily filing is stamped to Carlson, Brigance & Doering Inc., the same firm behind the two prior site-plan versions of this project, filed in November 2024 and January 2025 before this final version.
Easton Park itself is Brookfield's 2,700-acre community in the Bluff Springs area, about 12 miles southeast of downtown — one of the largest active master-planned developments in Austin, with room planned for roughly 14,000 lots at full build-out. It already has more than 350 acres of parks and 13 miles of trails, anchored by Skyline Park, a 21-acre hilltop green space with a real view back toward downtown.
Skyline Park at Easton Park
Free""There is a life-size wind chime on top of a hill that you can see downtown Austin from! Beautiful views!" — Lacey Hykel, Google review, Skyline Park
That review isn't hyperbole about the new construction — it's about the park two-thirds of a mile from where these nine buildings are now going up, and it's a reasonable preview of what a resident here will actually be able to walk to.
How many apartments, and is this the neighborhood's first multifamily project?
No. It's Easton Park's second. Elina, a 349-unit, 345,494-square-foot community built by Hines, opened its first units in February 2025 a short drive away — a nearly identical footprint to the Lot 4B-1 project now permitted. City records don't disclose an exact unit count for the new buildings (permit filings track square footage and construction type, not floor plans), but using Elina's real ratio of roughly 990 square feet per unit as a rough guide, 312,422 square feet works out to somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 apartments — an estimate, not a confirmed count.
There's also Ariza Easton Park, an existing apartment complex at 8001 E William Cannon Dr. with its own clubhouse and game room, and The Union, Easton Park's original 14,000-square-foot community amenity center with the resort-style pool most residents already use. The clubhouse in this new 35-permit filing is a separate, smaller building serving just the new buildings — not a replacement for either.
Why it matters if you live nearby — or are looking to
Bluff Springs and the rest of ZIP 78744 have been one of the more active corners of the city's permit data all year. Public filing counts pulled from Austin Local Team — our sister site's public-records search — show 2,132 construction permits issued across the ZIP in the past 12 months, including 137 new residential buildings, alongside 1,156 active development projects and 15,331 logged 311 service requests. That's the backdrop this new multifamily filing lands on: a ZIP code that was already building fast before these nine buildings existed on paper.
Austin Local Team is a sister site of Austin Texas Things, brokered by All City Real Estate, ltd. Co. (TREC #9003633). It's a home search built on the same public-records database this article draws from — every listing carries the permits, site plans, and TDLR filings around it, the same way this piece pulled them for Easton Park. It's not an automated valuation tool and doesn't rank neighborhoods; it's counts of public filings, same as here.
For scale, ATX Things' own September Development Report — pulled from the same city and TDLR data — found $793.1 million in new construction registered across metro Austin in a single 30-day window (as of Sept. 2, 2026). A 312,422-square-foot apartment filing doesn't move that citywide number much on its own, but it's exactly the kind of record that compounds quietly in a fast-growing ZIP code until a neighborhood looks different than it did two years ago.
Want to check what's been filed near your own address? Zabalist's public permit search covers every address in Travis, Williamson, and Hays counties — the same database this article pulled from — free, no account required.
It's warm enough right now to feel like construction weather won't quit — 94°F this afternoon, feels like 97° — but Open-Meteo's forecast has a real front behind it: highs drop to the low 90s Thursday, then into the low 80s by Friday with a strong chance of thunderstorms, the kind of stretch that turns a September jobsite into a mud pit for a day or two. Worth knowing if you're one of Clark Wilson Builders' subcontractors on this one.
What locals should know
- 35 permits, one project. All filed September 25, 2026, at 8920–8921 Hillock Terrace, contractor Clark Wilson Builders INC.
- 312,422 square feet across 9 buildings — plus a clubhouse, 7 garages, 14 carports, and 4 trash enclosures.
- The land is owned by Carma Easton LLC, Brookfield Residential's Easton Park entity, not by Clark Wilson Builders — the contractor is building, not developing, this one.
- No public unit count yet — city records don't require it at the permit stage; Elina's ratio a mile away suggests roughly 300 apartments, not a confirmed figure.
- This is Easton Park's second apartment community, after Elina (Hines, 349 units, opened Feb. 2025).
We're watching for the certificate-of-occupancy filing that will eventually confirm a real unit count and opening date — follow @austintexasthings for the update when the buildings top out.
FAQ
What is Easton Park? A 2,700-acre master-planned community developed by Brookfield Residential in the Bluff Springs area of Southeast Austin, about 12 miles from downtown, planned for roughly 14,000 lots at full build-out.
Who owns the land where the new apartments are being built? Carma Easton LLC, a Brookfield Residential/Brookfield Properties entity that has held the Easton Park land since 2011.
How many apartments will these nine buildings have? City permits don't disclose a unit count. Using a comparable nearby project's real square-footage-per-unit ratio as a guide, it's roughly in the neighborhood of 300 units — an estimate, not a confirmed number.
When will they open? No completion date or certificate of occupancy has been filed yet. The permits were issued September 25, 2026, and construction is presumably just beginning.
Is this the same company as Ariza or Elina, the other Easton Park apartments? No. Ariza and Elina are separate, already-open communities from different builders. This is a new, third multifamily project — built by Clark Wilson Builders on Brookfield-owned land — still under construction.
Related: What's Been Filed in Mueller This Year covers the same kind of permit-record deep dive in a different fast-growing Austin neighborhood. Earlier today's edition, Renting or Buying in Travis Heights or Zilker?, walked through central Austin's public records — this one heads southeast, to a neighborhood that's still mostly on paper. For the full citywide picture, see Austin's September Development Report and Austin Country Club's 13-permit filing day, and Before You Tour a House in Austin for how to run this same lookup on any address.
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