ABOUT
The Vision of Desert Color
Desert Color is a master-planned community built around connectivity, community, and sustainability. It is a place where you will find the best of everything that Southern Utah has to offer. Located alongside I-15 and Southern Parkway, Desert Color will be built atop a 3,350-acre lot east of the interstate. It will feature residences, shopping, dining, entertainment, commercial, retail, hospitality, and recreation.
Our Team
With over 140 years of combined experience and successes in their respective industry, the partners bring different strengths to the team and are committed to utilizing their best resources, talent, and expertise to create and develop Desert Color to become one of the nation’s premier resort and recreation master planned communities. Their collective expertise includes developing residential, commercial and retail real estate projects locally and nationally.
Desert Color is a long-term commitment that will grow thoughtfully and in harmony with St. George City, Washington County, and the region.
Desert Color has a preferred builder pool that will construct a variety of residential products: resort, traditional and active adult. Residence prices are $350,000 and up.
We do sell individual lots for buyers to design and build custom homes on. Please contact Matt Curtis at 435-216-2339 for pricing and availability.
Desert Color has a robust commercial/lifestyle center that will feature hotels, food and beverage, office, and a variety of retail. Desert Color has partnered with PEG Development and Woodbury Corporation to develop the commercial/lifestyle center.
Yes. Desert Color will feature interconnected community trails that will tie into the existing regional trails of the St. George Area. Desert Color submitted its master plan to the Dixie Municipal Planning Organization, which is part of the Five County Association of Governments. We are part of the planning process and we are committed to work with them as the project grows.
Yes. Desert Color has an HOA to help support the common core amenities, to ensure the consistency of development standards, and maintain property values.
Yes. Desert Color is more than a water-conscious development. It is a water conservation development with a vision and commitment to water stewardship. Desert Color is Utah’s first master planned community to be Localscapes certified.
Desert Color is working with the City of St. George, Washington County Water Conservancy District, and the State of Utah to manage existing water and explore ways to ensure that adequate supplies of water are available for future needs.
Visit this page to view Desert Color’s Water Stewardship Vision.
Water Stewardship
Community
Desert Color is working with the City of St. George, the Washington County Water Conservancy District, and the State of Utah to manage the water we currently have and to explore ways to make sure that adequate supplies of water are available for future needs by:
- Actively participating in local, regional, and state water planning and sourcing
- Saving culinary water for household uses by restricting outdoor water usage to secondary water sources
- Keeping water affordable for the end
- Utilizing water-saving technologies
Development
Through its development design, architecture, technology, and infrastructure, Desert Color could use up to 40% less culinary water than a typical development in Washington County by:
- Voluntarily implementing development-wide xeriscape landscaping standards
- Creating a separate secondary water storage and distribution system for outdoor irrigation and recreational needs
- Reducing the overall amount of land being used for irrigation by creating multiple parks and recreational amenities instead of large, individual private yards
Amenities
Desert Color’s decision to have a recreational water feature is driven by several significant considerations:
- Differentiation of Recreational Amenities in the Area: St. George has thirteen golf courses with number fourteen currently under construction. Feedback from focus groups in the community suggested that another golf course would be just “more of the same” and that St. George was looking for something to be a new, dynamic attraction.
- Conserves Water: According to the St. George Water Department, a recreational water feature with 2.5 acres of surface evaporation will use 11% less water than a 2.5-acre turf grass park. If the water feature uses chemical treatment evaporation technology, we could use even less water, as much as 24% less.
- Where is the Water Coming From? Desert Color’s recreational water will come from a private well. The water is “brackish,” not fit for culinary use, not currently being used and ends up flowing down stream.
- Put the Water to Work: This undesirable water will be cleaned and used to provide public and private recreational opportunities. It will be a new attraction and venue that will enhance economic development and generate revenue to local and state government. The stored water can also be used as a secondary water source for irrigation.
Contact or Visit
Desert Color
Location
Welcome Center & Information
820 West Akoya Pearl St.
St. George, UT 84790