Beautiful Living,
Beautifully Made.
Sundara Homes is a newly formed Texas residential builder, headquartered in Houston. We design and build both single-family and multifamily residences — homes that look as good in year ten as they do on opening day — and we stay involved long after the keys change hands.
Beautiful Living, Beautifully Made.
OUR STORY
How we got here.
Sundara Homes is a newly formed Texas residential builder. We were founded in 2026 in Houston by three industry leaders who together developed the Centenarian Village model — and who founded Sundara to bring Centenarian Village communities to life across Texas. The brief was simple, and impossibly hard: design a residential community where four generations could live together — not as a senior community with grandchildren visiting, not as a young-family subdivision with a mother-in-law suite tucked behind the garage, but as a single, walkable, intergenerational neighborhood where senior independent-living homes, family homes, build-to-rent residences, and a true mixed-use core all belonged to the same place.
To make that idea real, three deeply experienced operators came together — each from a different industry, each bringing exactly the expertise the model required.
Once the model was clear, the founders saw equally clearly that it needed an operator built specifically to deliver it — a residential builder that could hold all three disciplines together and execute the full master plan, not just a single product type. Sundara Homes was created to be that builder.
The name comes from ancient Tamil and Sanskrit, where it means beautiful. The brand promise — Beautiful Living, Beautifully Made — captures what the founders agreed Sundara would stand for: homes that are beautiful to live in at every age, beautifully made for the long arc.
Today, Sundara has a pipeline of more than 2,400 single-family and multifamily homes in active development across six Texas communities, headquartered out of our Houston office. Every Sundara home is upcoming. Every home draws on what the three founders have spent their careers learning.
We are a young company, but we are not building from a blank page — we are building from more than eighty combined years of technology, senior-living, and hospitality experience, applied for the first time to a Texas residential builder.
Our flagship project sits twenty minutes southwest of downtown San Antonio. Sundara Bluebonnet is the first full expression of the founders’ vision: 598 homes across four phases, a 10,000 sq. ft. clubhouse, 120 independent-living senior homes alongside 223 family homes and 156 build-to-rent residences and 99 duplexes — and a Phase 4 mixed-use core of hotels, urgent care, physician offices, and retail that turns the community into a place you do not have to leave for everyday life. Phase 1 delivers Q1 2027.
Five additional Sundara communities — Magnolia (Hillsboro), Larkspur (Jarrell), Paintbrush (Terrell), Sunflower (Taylor), and Camellia (Dayton) — launch across Texas through 2028.
We are not the largest builder in Texas. We do not intend to be. We intend to be the builder you tell your sister to call.
Venkat Gopi
Strategy & Capital
Thirty years in technology and five years as an alternative-investment fund manager. Built scaled platforms and structured retail capital into real estate investments at the scope Sundara Bluebonnet requires.
Jean Makesh
Senior Living Pioneer
Thirty years in senior living. Founder & CEO of The Lantern Group. PBS Next Avenue Top 50 Influencer in Aging. Pioneered biophilic, neighborhood-style design for memory-care residents internationally.
Shailesh "Sal" Patel
Hospitality & Operations
Twenty-five years in the hotel industry. Brings the discipline of designing, building, and operating hospitality — where every front-of-house and back-of-house detail compounds into the resident experience.
The Centenarian Village Model
Living Fully. Living Together.
Every Sundara community is built on the Centenarian Village model — a future-ready framework for walkable, mixed-use urban living designed to bring generations together around wellness, connection, and sustainability. The model is the original vision of Sundara’s three founders, born from their decades of work in senior living, hospitality, and technology. The model gives us our shape; the brand promise — Beautiful Living, Beautifully Made — gives us our standard.
The Founders' Vision
The Centenarian Village model emerged from what each founder learned in his own field — Jean Makesh’s three decades pioneering biophilic, neighborhood-style senior living at The Lantern Group; Sal Patel’s twenty-five years building hospitality experiences; Venkat Gopi’s thirty years building technology platforms. None of them, working alone, would have arrived at this model. Together, they kept asking: why are American communities still built as if a 30-year-old, a 7-year-old, and a 75-year-old all want different neighborhoods? Centenarian Village is their answer.
Five-Minute Living
Every Centenarian Village is designed around the five-minute walk. Groceries within five minutes. Coffee within five minutes. A doctor within five minutes. A park within five minutes. A neighbor of any age within five minutes. The model rejects the assumption — baked into half a century of American suburban development — that every errand requires a car and every neighbor lives behind a fence. Five-minute living changes the math on commute time, on health, on how often a child plays outside, and on how often a 75-year-old leaves the house.
Intergenerational by Design
The model holds that the strongest communities are not segregated by age. A Centenarian Village houses senior independent-living residents on the same streets as families with young children, on the same streets as students or young professionals, on the same streets as multigenerational households. The clubhouse hosts a yoga class at 7 a.m., a kids’ birthday party at 11, a book club at 2, and a community dinner at 6. The result is what aging-in-place specialists call “social infrastructure” — the daily, casual contact between generations that prevents isolation and builds belonging.
A Mix of Asset Classes
A Centenarian Village can include any of the following — single-family homes, duplexes, apartments, build-to-rent residences, senior independent-living and assisted-care homes, student or workforce housing, boutique hotels, urgent care and physician offices, organic grocery, dining and retail, wellness studios, data centers and remote-work hubs, and a defining ribbon of green: parks, walking trails, sensory gardens, and meditation spaces. Not every village contains every asset class — the mix is calibrated to the parcel and the local market.
Holistic Wellness, Built Into the Ground Plan
Wellness in a Centenarian Village is not a building you visit. It is the way the village is laid out. Yoga lawns and meditation gardens at the central greenbelt. Walking and jogging trails that connect every cluster of homes. Outdoor amphitheaters and gathering spaces calibrated for community programming. Sensory gardens designed for residents at every age and ability. The clubhouse is the indoor expression of the same principle: a 10,000 sq. ft. building at Sundara Bluebonnet that holds a fitness center, a library, a ballroom, an arts and crafts studio, and the social hub that turns neighbors into a community.
Sustainable by Design
Centenarian Villages are built to LEED-aligned standards, with EV charging, solar power, green roofs, water harvesting, and energy-efficient systems integrated from the master plan forward — not retrofitted later. The model treats sustainability as economic resilience: a community that produces some of its own power, captures some of its own water, and reduces its own commuting load is a community more resilient to energy shocks, drought, traffic congestion, and the broader uncertainties of the next thirty years.
A Post-Pandemic Idea
The Centenarian Village concept matured in the years immediately after COVID — a period that exposed exactly the vulnerabilities the model was designed to address. Isolation. Car dependence. Healthcare deserts. Communities that fell apart the moment commuting stopped. The Centenarian Village answers each of these by design: proximity living, embedded healthcare, multi-generational support systems, and walkable green space. These are not just neighborhoods. They are life-supporting ecosystems built to remain livable through whatever the next thirty years bring.
A Self-Reinforcing Local Economy
The asset-class mix is also an economic-resilience mix. Senior-living residents create stable long-term tenancy and anchor wellness and healthcare retail. Student and workforce housing drive consistent demand. Multifamily adds density, balances the demographic mix, and stabilizes cash flow. Retail and hospitality attract spending from outside the village. Data centers and remote-work hubs root the community in the digital economy. Green infrastructure preserves long-term property value. The result is a community that is economically self-sustaining across decades.
Centenarian Villages are Active Connected Living Communities — places where people across generations live in harmony, engage meaningfully, and access everything they need within walking distance.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
Beautiful Living, Beautifully Made —
what it means in practice.
Our brand promise isn’t a tagline. It’s the way we make every decision.
Beautiful Living
What we design for: We design for the moments people actually have, at every age. Sunday breakfast at the kitchen island. Homework at the dining table. A porch swing on a March evening. A pickleball match with a neighbor at 7 a.m. A primary closet you can both stand in at the same time. A grandparent across the street who can walk to the clubhouse without crossing traffic. Most builders sell square footage; we design for life lived inside it.
Beautifully Made
What we build with: We build for the Texas thirty-year. Class 4 hail-rated shingles. Post-tensioned slabs in expansive-soil zones. Resilient HVAC sized to a 102-degree July, not a 75-degree spec sheet. Freeze-protected exterior plumbing that actually survived 2021. ENERGY STAR throughout. The boring engineering choices that quietly make the rest of the home work, year after year.
A beautiful home that isn’t beautifully made is a photograph. A beautifully made home that isn’t designed for living is a warehouse. We build for both, every time.
Our Operating Principles
Five rules we don't bend.
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Build like it's your own family's home.
Every Sundara site has a quality superintendent with stop-work authority. We don’t pass flaws to the next stage and hope no one notices.
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Tell the truth, even when it's inconvenient.
If a lot backs up to a busy road, we’ll tell you. If our delivery date slips, you’ll hear it from us first — not from a missed deadline. Trust compounds. Spin doesn’t.
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Design for thirty Texas summers.
South Texas weather is unforgiving. Roofs, HVAC sizing, framing, insulation, irrigation — every spec is chosen for what it’ll look like in 2056, not in the model home photo.
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Stay after the sale.
Our customer care team is in-house, based at our Houston headquarters, and staffed by full-time Sundara employees. The person who answers your call in year five works in the same building as the person who sold or leased you the home in year one.
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Concentrate, don't spread.
We build in four Texas metros — not thirty. We know every community we have. We don’t believe a builder can be excellent in fifty markets at once.
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OUR TEAM
The people behind Sundara.
Sundara Homes was founded in 2026 by three industry leaders who together developed the Centenarian Village model and founded Sundara to bring that vision to life across Texas. Each brings a distinct discipline — and together, they bring more than eighty years of combined experience in technology, senior living, and hospitality to the residential building business.
Founders
Venkat Gopi
Co-Founder & CEO
Thirty years in technology and five years as an alternative-investment fund manager. Venkat leads strategy, capital, and overall operations at Sundara. His career spans building scaled technology platforms and structuring retail capital into real estate investments — exactly the combination required to underwrite, finance, and deliver master-planned communities of Sundara Bluebonnet’s scale. Venkat is responsible for ensuring that what gets designed and promised actually gets built.
Jean Makesh
Co-Founder & Chief Living Officer
Thirty years in the senior living industry. Jean is the founder and CEO of The Lantern Group, the Ohio-based assisted-living and memory-care company internationally recognized for pioneering biophilic, neighborhood-style design for residents with Alzheimer’s and dementia. He has been named one of PBS Next Avenue’s Top 50 Influencers in Aging, has authored two books on Alzheimer’s care, and has presented his work to heads of state and Nobel Laureates at international forums. At Sundara, Jean leads design philosophy, the multi-generational programming model, and the senior independent-living standard for every community we build.
Shailesh “Sal” Patel
Co-Founder & Chief Hospitality Officer
Twenty-five years in the hotel industry. Sal brings the operational discipline of hospitality — front-of-house experience, back-of-house systems, brand standards, service consistency — to Sundara’s clubhouse, amenity, and Phase 4 mixed-use core. The 10,000 sq. ft. clubhouse at Sundara Bluebonnet is designed and programmed under Sal’s leadership, as is every community manager team across the Sundara portfolio. Sal believes a residential community lives or dies on the daily details: how the pool deck looks at 7 a.m., how a maintenance request gets answered, how a resident is greeted at the front desk.
Operations
Saravanakumar (Saravana)
Project Operations Manager
Coordinates project management across Sundara’s Texas portfolio. Saravana maintains the cross-project tracking and reporting that gives leadership real-time visibility into every Sundara community in active development — from pre-development entitlements to construction milestones to delivery readiness. Before Sundara, Saravana led digital transformation and project-platform implementations across multi-entity organizations.
Shabnna Babu
Office Manager & Administration Lead
Leads office administration and entity operations for Sundara across our Houston headquarters and Texas community sites. Shabnna oversees vendor coordination, governance and entity filings, and the day-to-day administrative infrastructure that keeps the company running. Before Sundara, Shabnna held administrative and compliance roles across multi-entity real estate and investment organizations.
In Partnership With
K7 Capital Partners
K7 Capital Partners is a strategic investment partner to Sundara Homes. K7’s capital and real-estate expertise help bring the founders’ Centenarian Village vision to scale across Texas. Sundara remains independently led, founder-controlled, and is the originator of the Centenarian Village model. The relationship with K7 reflects the fact that a model of this scope — seven asset classes integrated into one walkable master plan — requires committed retail capital to deliver. K7 brings that capital. Sundara brings the vision and the build.
Memberships & Certifications
In Progress
Texas Real Estate Commission
Texas Association of Builders
Greater Houston Builders Association
Greater San Antonio Builders Association
Home Builders Association of Greater Austin
ENERGY STAR® Certified Builder Partner
National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC)
Where We Build
Four Texas Metros, One Standard.
Our Headquarters
Houston Metro
Sundara is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Our first Houston-area community is Sundara Camellia in Dayton, Texas — 30 miles east of downtown Houston in Liberty County, along the US-90 corridor and the expanding Grand Parkway. Launching late 2028. The Houston metro is the second-largest new-home market in the country, with strong long-term migration and infrastructure tailwinds, and Dayton is one of its most accessible entry points.
Our Flagship
San Antonio Metro
Where our flagship community is taking shape today. Sundara Bluebonnet in Lytle, Texas is a 598-home master-planned community with Phase 1 deliveries in Q1 2027. We chose San Antonio for the flagship because it is the most stable major Texas market, with the migration tailwinds, the affordability, and the corridor positioning we needed for a project of this scale.
Metro
Austin Metro
Two upcoming communities: Sundara Larkspur in Jarrell, TX (30 minutes north of downtown Austin) and Sundara Sunflower in Taylor, TX (in the path of Samsung’s $17 billion semiconductor fab). Both launching 2028. We focus on the suburbs — where land is still reasonable, schools are strong, and buyers can find real value within 25 to 30 minutes of the Tesla, Samsung, and Apple campuses.
Dallas–Fort Worth Metro
DFW Metro
Two upcoming communities: Sundara Magnolia in Hillsboro along the I-35 corridor between DFW and Waco, and Sundara Paintbrush 30 minutes east of downtown Dallas in Terrell. Both launching 2028. DFW is the largest housing market in Texas — and one of the largest in America — and it has been the fastest-growing region of our buyer database since launch. We are building where our buyers told us to.
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