What is being built at Tech Ridge in St. George?

Tech Ridge is a 180-acre mixed-use development on the mesa that used to be the St. George municipal airport, and it is being built out over about twenty years.

That timeframe is the single most important fact about it, and it is the one that gets lost. The developer’s agreement with the city requires construction of at least 378,000 square feet every five years (St. George News). This is not a project that finishes and then you know what you bought next to. It is a project you live alongside.

What is actually there now

Offices first. PrinterLogic, a software company based in St. George, occupies the first office building on top of the mesa. That building is the reason the project exists in the form it does — the city’s pitch was to attract technology employers and the talent that comes with them.

The first commercial building beyond that broke ground in July, a shared headquarters for Eagle Gate Title and Red Mountain Title, which the project treated as the start of a commercial phase rather than a one-off.

Roads are in and they matter more than the buildings for most residents. Cloud Drive now connects Indian Hills Drive with Black Ridge Drive, and Tech Ridge Drive runs across the mesa linking the north and south ends. If you have lived in St. George for a while, that connection changed how this part of town moves.

Recreation is also real rather than planned. The 333 concrete steps known locally as the Dragon’s Tail now have an adjacent paved trail for walking and biking, and the plan extends the trail system around the whole mesa. Does St. George have good trails sets that in the context of the wider network.

What is approved but not built

A 199-unit apartment complex on 4.9 acres between Donlee Drive and Tech Ridge Drive, just south of Black Hill View Park. It is planned with close to 400 parking spaces split between a surface lot and a five-level garage. The City Council approved it in August 2025 on a 4-1 vote, including a requested reduction in the parking count, and reporting in February 2026 described construction as expected to start later in the year.

I want to report the opposition accurately, because it is relevant to anyone buying nearby. Neighbors objected on height and traffic, and the five-story element drew specific concern. The council approved it anyway. That is a normal municipal outcome and it is also a signal about how density decisions have been going on this mesa.

Beyond that, the approved plan runs to townhomes and condominiums, with 2,400 residential units approved across the project in total.

The long-term plan, stated plainly

Component	Approved at full build-out
Office	About 1 million square feet
Retail	About 260,000 square feet
Hotel	About 600 rooms
Residential	2,400 units
Minimum pace	378,000 square feet every five years

That is a substantial amount of density on 180 acres, and it is worth looking at as a block rather than one approval at a time. A buyer evaluating a house near the mesa today is evaluating a neighbor that will keep changing for roughly two decades.

What this means if you are buying nearby

Three honest points, and they do not all run the same direction.

Employment base is a genuine positive. One of the fair criticisms of St. George has been that the economy leaned heavily on construction, tourism and retirement. A deliberate attempt to add office employment changes the mix, and a more varied local economy is better for property values over a long hold than a narrow one. That is the real argument for this project and it is not marketing.

Density and traffic are a genuine cost. Two thousand four hundred residential units, 600 hotel rooms and 260,000 square feet of retail generate trips. The roads have been built to carry some of that, and the neighbors who objected to the apartment complex were not being unreasonable. If you buy on a street that feeds the mesa, your traffic in ten years will not be your traffic today.

Uncertainty is the thing to price. A twenty-year agreement with a five-year minimum is a floor, not a schedule. What gets built, in what order, and what it looks like is going to be decided in council meetings you can attend. I would not pay today for the finished version of this.

How to check it against a specific address

What you want to know	Where to get it
What is approved on a given parcel	St. George City planning and zoning
What is in front of the council now	Planning commission and council agendas
The governing development agreement	St. George City, as a public record
What neighbors have been told	Recent public hearing notices
How the streets feel at peak	Drive the access roads at the school and commute hour

The last row is the one I insist on with clients. Drive Donlee Drive, Tech Ridge Drive and the connecting streets at the hour you would actually use them, not midday when a showing is scheduled. Mesa-top roads with limited access points behave differently under load than a map suggests.

And read the agendas. This is the rare case where a buyer can see the next few years coming, because it will be decided in public, in writing, in advance. How do I choose a neighborhood in St. George covers how I would weigh this against everything else on your list.

Who should look here and who should not

Look if you want to be near an employment center rather than a subdivision, if walkable trail access from your door matters to you, if you are comfortable with density and would rather have amenities close than quiet, or if you work in a field the project is trying to attract.

Think harder if quiet is near the top of your list, if you are sensitive to construction noise over a long period, if you are buying a long-hold home and want a settled neighborhood, or if you are at the edge of your budget and cannot absorb the chance that the area develops differently than you hoped.

For buyers relocating from a larger metropolitan area, I would add one thing. This is the most urban thing happening in Washington County, and it is still modest by the standards of a real city. If density is what you are fleeing, this mesa is not where I would put you. Buying a home in St. George from out of state is where I have written the candid version of that adjustment.

The short version

A 180-acre mixed-use project on the old airport mesa. Offices open, first commercial building under way, 199-unit apartment complex approved over neighbor objections, and 2,400 residential units plus a million square feet of office approved at full build-out over about twenty years. Verify by parcel at the city and drive the access roads at peak.

I am Kelsey Earl, a Realtor with Keller Williams South Valley, and for any house near a long-horizon development I pull the agreement and the current agendas before a client writes, because this is one of the few situations where the future is genuinely on the public record. If you want that done on a specific address, send it to me.