The 3,000-acre community is located at Blue Diamond Road and Buffalo Drive in the southwestern Las Vegas Valley. Plans include 500 acres of parks and trail systems, four elementary schools, two middle schools and a high school. Areas have been set aside for commercial development.

Amenities consist of a 20-acre picnic area, a tennis complex, a performing arts amphitheater, a skate park, two baseball diamonds, and two multi-use fields. Additionally, there is a 20-acre exploration park and a Western-themed play park with an animal garden, a water tower, slides, a tee-pee climbing net, and a native American archeological digging area.

The Mountain's Edge development utilizes indigenous landscaping with Mojave yucca, creosote brushes and acacia shrubs. Greey Pickett Partners of Scottsdale. Arizona served as the landscape architect. Roughly 3,200 plants are being moved and restored as part of the project's natural environment. An aged stone wall and Mission-style tower flanked by olive groves will line the Mountain's Edge entrance.
"This is going to be a Tuscany-themed development, emphasizing Old World charm," Ritter says. "There will be open space and pedestrian paseos that run throughout the project, linking school and park sites with wide sidewalks along the roadways allowing pedestrian access in and around the project."

Twenty-two builders are active within the community, which will comprise 12,500 homes at build out. They are:

Amstar, Astoria, Avante, Beazer, Chartered, Concordia, Desert Wind, D.R. Horton, Greystone/Lennar, Juliet, KB Home, Kimball Hill, Meritage/Perma-Bilt, Pardee, R/S Development, Stanpark, Storybook, Toll Bros., Trophy, US Home/Lennar, Warmington Nevada and Woodside. Base prices start from $300,000 to $800,000

An estimated 32,500 people could live at Mountain's Edge upon its build-out in 2011.