$52M Filing Plans 329 Apartments on Pearland's Smith Ranch Road

A limited liability company registered to a Manhattan office tower has filed a $52.0 million project registration with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation for a 329-unit apartment complex on Smith Ranch Road in Pearland, the earliest public paper trail for a sizable rental project in Brazoria County.

RG SMTH RANCH LLC registered TABS2027004334 on Oct. 23, 2026, for new construction of a four-story, 329-unit multifamily residential development totaling 305,792 sq ft, including a clubhouse, fitness center, leasing office, co-working space, mail room and pool area. The filing lists the site as “0 Smith Ranch Road,” Pearland, TX 77584, a placeholder street number that typically precedes final addressing on raw land.

Why it matters

A TDLR registration is the earliest statewide signal that a large private project is moving, usually weeks ahead of a city site plan or building permit. The filing adds a sizable rental project to Pearland, a largely single-family suburb south of Houston, even as the registered owner’s identity stays masked behind a single-purpose LLC, RG SMTH RANCH LLC. A public search for that LLC and the project name turned up no matching developer brand, so the record is reported here on the strength of the TDLR filing alone.

The numbers

• $52.0 million estimated cost, per TDLR TABS2027004334, registered Oct. 23, 2026.
• 329 units across four stories, 305,792 sq ft total.
• Owner of record: RG SMTH RANCH LLC, registered to 1221 Avenue of the Americas, 21st Floor, New York, NY 10020, contact Philip Croker.
• Design firm of record: Meeks + Partners Co.
• Estimated construction window: Dec. 1, 2026 to Jan. 31, 2029.

What’s next

With a roughly 26-month construction window penciled to a January 2029 completion, the records to watch next are a City of Pearland site plan or plat filing and a Brazoria County deed naming the land seller. Developers tracking the Houston region’s southern suburbs should watch Texas Secretary of State filings tied to the Smith Ranch Road address for whether RG SMTH RANCH LLC’s parent ever surfaces by name. More on the broader metro’s pipeline is on the Houston market page.