Summerlin is a 22,500 acres (9,100 ha) planned community under development by The Howard Hughes Corporation (an affiliate of General Growth Properties) in the Las Vegas metropolitan area of Nevada near the Spring Mountains and Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. Summerlin, named for Howard Hughes’ grandmother, Jean Amelia Summerlin, ranked as the country’s best-selling master-planned community for more than a decade by Robert Charles Lesser & Co. and continues to rank among the top ten best-selling communities in the country some 19 years after development first began. The community includes a variety of land uses, including: residential, commercial, recreational, educational, medical, open space, and cultural. As of January 2008, Summerlin's population was more than 97,500.
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