M Terra · Projects

Proof in the Ground

From a 45,000 SF floodplain pad to 40-foot holes in downtown Austin to 15 acres of commercial and 40 acres of residential site work, the work speaks for itself.

Selected Work

Where We've Moved Dirt

The View on the Square, San Marcos

San Marcos, TX · Founding Project

The View on the Square

500-bed, 207,000 SF, six-story student housing. M Terra's founding project, on a site partially within the floodplain: a 45,000 SF pad excavated 6 feet, re-compacted, and rebuilt with a 5-foot engineered overbuild in certified lifts.

  • 45,000 SF pad
  • 6 ft over-excavation
  • 5 ft overbuild
  • Floodplain site
Austin projects. The next three are inside the city, on sloped and elevated lots, not flat open ground. Each required work most site contractors aren't equipped to do: deep shored excavations and site-built retaining walls on tight urban lots. At Westline, that included a full subterranean storm water system.
Setting the concrete storm water retention reservoir underground at Westline

Clarksville, Austin, TX

Westline

16 luxury residences, 3 detached homes and 13 townhomes, at 1406 W. 9th Street beside West Austin Neighborhood Park. An in-city hillside site cleared of prior structures. M Terra excavated and built the subterranean water collection system: a 60 × 25 × 20-foot concrete storm retention reservoir and a separate 15 × 15 × 20-foot rainwater collection tank, set 32 feet underground, with the piping to tie them in. Retaining walls and utilities were sequenced around tight access and changing elevations.

  • 32 ft below grade
  • 60×25×20 reservoir
  • 15×15×20 rainwater tank
  • Hillside infill
Building a site-specific underground retaining wall in a shored excavation

Old West Austin, TX

The Colorfield

10 luxury condominiums on the 1.2-acre former HOPE Outdoor Gallery site at Castle Hill, designed by Alterstudio to preserve views of the Capitol. Steep-slope excavation, shoring, site-built retaining walls, and storm water management on one of central Austin's most recognizable hillsides.

  • 1.2 acres
  • Steep slope
  • Shoring + retaining
The Emma Browning, Manor Road, Austin

3219 Manor Road, Austin, TX

The Emma Browning

146 apartments in a five-story building, completed in 2024. A dense in-city multifamily site with minimal laydown and deep utility work, coordinated around a crowded vertical schedule.

  • 146 units
  • 5 stories
  • Dense infill
Site preparation on a commercial development

Liberty Hill, TX · Williamson County

RT-29 Development

Full site development for a 15.1-acre multi-use commercial center at 9000 West SH-29. Nearly 13 acres inside the limits of construction: building pads for about 80,000 SF of footprint, a large parking field, and roughly 272,000 SF of drives and walks, about 352,000 SF of new impervious cover in all.

  • 15.1 acres
  • ~80,000 SF of pads
  • ~352,000 SF impervious
Site prep and pad building on open acreage

San Antonio, TX

Large-Acreage Developments

A 40-acre residential development and a 16-acre development in the San Antonio area: mass grading, road cuts, multiple pad builds, and utility extensions across tracts planned for phased build-out.

  • 40 acres residential
  • 16 acres
  • Roads + pads

Contact

Bring Us Your Site

Serving the Waco, Austin, Bastrop, and San Antonio corridor. Send your civil plans and geotech report. We'll return a scope, a schedule, and a number.

Dan McReynolds · (254) 723-7658
Rudy Torres · (512) 317-2178
info@iconxbuilders.com
605 Austin Avenue, Ste. 1, Waco, TX 76701

M Terra, LLC · Site preparation and utilities · A wholly owned subsidiary of IconX Builders