Firewheel Area Homes and Information
Among majestic tall trees, rolling hills, beautifully landscaped grounds, and three golf courses, are the numerous neighborhood villages of Firewheel. Garland’s first and finest master-planned community, Firewheel features first-class family amenities, golf-resort lifestyle and exceptionally built homes.
Conveniently located in Garland, just a stone's throw from President George Bush Turnpike (Highway 190), Firewheel offers easy accessibility to numerous employment, recreational and retail centers, including the beautiful new Firewheel Town Center. Children will experience an excellent education on-site and at nearby schools in the highly-rated Garland Independent School District.
Residents at Firewheel enjoy abundant first-class amenities including several pools, community centers, parks, playgrounds and ball fields. There's plenty of room for friends and family to gather, play and savor a luxurious lifestyle unmatched in the area.
Firewheel area Communities include The Retreat at Firewheel, Stonegate, IronGate,The Fairways at Firewheel, The Greens at Firewheel, Firewheel Estates, Fairway Lakes, Fairway Vistas, The Meadows at Firewheel Estates, Firwheel Farms, The Oaks at Stoney Creek, Hills at Breckenridge, Catlewood, Castlewood Estates, Springfield, Hilltop Meadows, Hills of Firewheel, Creek Hollow Estates. Find houses mls listings, information on home buying home selling homes and condos for sale around Firewheel area and if you have any questions please Contact Real Estate Agent Ian Berger for professional assistance.
Firewheel Mall and Town Center
Firewheel Town Center is a 785,000 square foot open-air regional shopping mall in Garland, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. The mall is located on the northeast corner of President George Bush Turnpike and State Highway 78. The mall opened on October 7, 2005. Although "coming soon" signs first appeared in 1984, actual construction did not begin until late 2003. It was completed in 2005 and is owned by the Simon Property Group. Unlike a traditional mall, Firewheel Town Center was designed in the new urbanism style. Similar area shopping centers include Southlake Town Square and The Shops at Legacy.
The Firewheel name comes from the nearby Firewheel Golf Park, which in turn is named for a flower that grows naturally in the area.
Firewheel Golf
The Bridges
The Bridges is the newest of our courses, with three different, unique nines: The Masters, The Champions, and The Traditions. -
- all three boast bentgrass greens. The sculpted fairways are lined with oak and pecan trees, with a pair of creeks meandering throughout. Golfers agree, any choice of nines provides the skillful golfer with a solid test.
Here are a couple of head pro Matt Macmellon's favorite holes: "Number one at Champions is a 520-yard par-5, with water all down the left side of the fairway and fairway bunker down the right side, so you must place your tee shot pretty carefully. It's a reachable par-5 -- but the second shot is difficult. The green is elevated, with a creek on three sides, and there's a big stand of trees on the right side of the green so it makes for a difficult second shot. Be careful and favor the left side of the green complex.
"The Masters' eighth hole is a 550-yard par-5 that plays uphill. Off the tee, you look at fairway bunkers all up the right side and out-of-bounds left, so be careful. There's a very deep bunker on the left side of the fairway 80 yards short of the which you definitely want to avoid. The green slopes hard from left to right.".
The Lakes Course
The Lakes Course is the toughest 18 of all, stretching 7134 yards from the tips -- a tight, difficult test with carries over ten lakes, and plenty of big-faced bunkers, too -- it has a slope rating of 139 from the gold tees.
Says head golf professional Matt Macmellon, "The first hole is a 440-yard par-4 -- with a creek that crosses the narrow fairway at about 230, the tee shot doesn't leave much room for error. You've got to choose -- either got to hit it long and straight to carry over the creek, or lay up short of it, and if you do play short of the creek, you're looking at 240 yards to the green. If you succeed in carrying the creek, you've still got 185 yards in to a small, well-undulated green.
"Number 18 is an excellent finishing hole, 558-yard par 5 with a blind tee shot.
There's a pond down the left hand side of the fairway, so you really have to place your tee shot well, keep it on the right side -- but watch out for the three bunkers on the right side of the fairway. Most players will lay up with their second shot to leave about a 115 yards in. Then you're faced with a short iron into a very narrow, deep green that's cut back into a stand of trees with a creek on the right-hand side.
The Old Course
The par-71 Old Course -- it plays from 7054 to just about 5500 yards in length, depending which set of tees you play from -- is 
probably the user-friendliest of all our golf courses. Winding over gently rolling terrain, through peaceful woods and over slow-moving streams, the Old Course features wide, forgiving fairways and roughs.
Tees are 419 Bermuda, greens are Champion Bermuda.
Let head professional Matt Macmellon take you through some of the best holes on the Old Course: "The ninth hole is a tight 552-yard par-5 -- the shot from the tee is quite narrow, and unless you hit an exceptional drive, you'll probably have to lay up short of the creek running across the fairway about 140 yards short of the green.
"Another exceptional hole is 18, a 400-yard par-4 -- the key here is to hit a good drive, because the fairway bends 90 degrees to the left at around 215 yards out, and if you hit it a little bit too far, the trees will block your way to the green. From the tee, hit an iron or fairway wood, which will leave you about 185 yards to a small green screened by trees on both sides -- there's quite a bit of slope from back to front on that green."