MacDonald Highlands Four Seasons Towers & Fall Construction

Drive past the guard gate into MacDonald Highlands this month and you'll pass at least two active job sites before you reach your own driveway. It's easy to group all of it under one mental folder: "the Four Seasons thing." But that description is incomplete. MacDonald Highlands isn't running one construction project on one timeline. It's running three, on three separate clocks, and the newest one has just cleared zoning.

If you've been meaning to figure out what's actually happening to your neighborhood this fall, here's the version that accounts for all three.

The Public Notice and Council Vote

On August 18, 2026, the Henderson City Council voted on Ordinance No. 4169, a zoning change described in a public notice published in the classifieds section of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, rather than in a press release with renderings. The vote created a new subdivision inside the MacDonald Highlands Master Plan called Planning Area 29, covering 13.7 acres near the intersection of Mystic Rock Place and Rock Peak Drive in the McCullough Hills area. Mayor Michelle Romero and council members Carrie Cox, Jim Seebock, and Dan H. Stewart voted in favor. Nobody voted against it. Council member Monica Larson was absent.

Here's the detail that matters more than the vote count: the ordinance doesn't add 54 new homes to MacDonald Highlands. It transfers 54 residential units that were already entitled somewhere else in the master plan, in Planning Area 28, and relocates them to this specific 13.7-acre parcel. The overall unit count for the community doesn't change. What changes is where those units physically sit. Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo, the same architecture firm behind the Four Seasons towers, is designing it. Westwood Professional Services is the civil engineer. The plan calls for 19 ground-level villas plus two residential towers holding a combined 35 units, for a density just under four dwelling units per acre.

If you live anywhere near Mystic Rock Place or Rock Peak Drive, this is the project to watch for site work notices, not the towers you've already been driving past for two years.

Three Projects, Side by Side

The third row is the one worth sitting with. While the Four Seasons towers are still mid-timeline and Planning Area 29 has cleared zoning but not begun site work, the community's actual social hub already finished its own transformation. That's the amenity you can walk into tonight. The other two are still years, or at minimum months, from being usable.

What the Towers Actually Look Like From the Ground

The Four Seasons Private Residences have been a fixture of the skyline conversation in MacDonald Highlands since site blasting began years ago, but the pace has changed in a way that's easy to miss if you're not paying attention week to week. As of the most recent construction update from the development team in January 2026, crews are moving at approximately one floor per tower per week, a detail that matters because it's the first concrete signal of when the two towers will actually stop growing. At that pace, both the north and south towers are targeted to top off by the end of 2026, with owners able to move in starting mid-2027.

That's a meaningfully later date than what residents were told when the project first broke ground. Under its original name, Pinnacle Residences, the first tower was expected to open by the second quarter of 2025. After the Four Seasons rebrand, that slipped to late 2026. The newest projection, issued this January, pushes full occupancy for both towers to mid-2027. If you've been assuming this finishes sometime "next year" without a firmer date, mid-2027 is the number to actually plan around, whether that planning is about traffic patterns, gate access changes, or just knowing when the cranes come down.

What the Dining Announcements Say So Far

The dining plans have appeared differently in separate announcements. When the tower project was first announced under its Four Seasons branding, the signature restaurant was going to be Noble Heights, a steakhouse and wine bar built around ranch, farm, and sea-centric cooking. It came with real culinary pedigree attached. Elizabeth Blau and chef Kim Canteenwalla, the team behind Honey Salt and Buddy V's Ristorante, were named as the concept's creators, and Blau told the Las Vegas Review-Journal she wanted to bring their food to "the other side of town."

The most recent official update from the development, issued this January, describes the tower's signature dining differently: a culinary partnership with Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group. The earlier Noble Heights announcement and the January 2026 update name different partners. Until one of the towers actually opens a restaurant with a name over the door, residents should treat the dining concept as unsettled rather than assume the original 2022 announcement is still the plan.

What hasn't changed across every version of the announcement is that this restaurant, whoever ends up running it, was designed from the start to be open to the entire valley, not just tower residents. That's worth remembering when the doors eventually open. It won't be a private amenity locked behind a second layer of gate access. It'll be a public reservation, the same as any other Henderson restaurant.

What This Actually Changes Day to Day

For residents living closest to the existing tower construction, the loud, disruptive phase, the blasting and site excavation, is largely behind you. The project has been in vertical construction since the foundation work wrapped, which means what you're hearing now is crane and crew noise rather than the concussive site prep from a couple of years ago.

That's not true yet for anyone near Mystic Rock Place or Rock Peak Drive. Planning Area 29 just cleared zoning. Site work, if it follows the same pattern as the Four Seasons project did, will likely start with excavation and grading before any vertical construction begins. If you live in that pocket of McCullough Hills, the disruptive phase for you is still ahead, not behind.

Meanwhile, DragonRidge Country Club's clubhouse remodel is the one piece of all this that's already finished and usable. The ONYX bar, the two seasonal restaurants, the five tennis courts, and the Starbucks café inside the fitness center are open now, not "coming soon." If you've been waiting for something new to actually open in the community rather than just watching it get built, that's the one you can use tonight.

MacDonald Highlands this fall has three projects on different timelines: Planning Area 29 has just cleared zoning, the Four Seasons dining plans have a newer partner announcement, and the clubhouse remodel is complete. Knowing which is which is the difference between anticipating the right disruption at the right time and being surprised by construction you didn't see coming.

If you're weighing a move within MacDonald Highlands, curious what these overlapping projects might mean for your own property, or just want a straight answer about what's happening near your street, The Hellewell Home Group knows this community block by block. Reach out anytime you want a local read that goes beyond the rendering.

This article is general information, not legal, tax or financial advice. Consult a qualified professional about your situation.