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Zuri means beautiful.

Calm shells. Whimsical souls.

Houston's first attainable 3D-printed community. Five streets. Eighty homes. Eighty stories. Take yours slowly.

Birds-eye aerial view of Zuri Gardens — 80 homes across five streets, with the future park, pond, and bayou trail
What to expect
Your Zuri journey, step by step.
Calm. Linear. We save your place at every step.
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Discover
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Pre-approval
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Down-payment help
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Choose your street
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Walk a model
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Welcome home
The Zuri Promise

Four things we hold ourselves to.

Most homebuilders want to sell you a unit. We want to give you a neighborhood worth living in. These are the rules we hold ourselves to — every email, every walk-through, every call.

01

Calm by design.

Minimalist interiors. Natural light. Finishes that age well. Timeless on purpose.

02

Built by robots.

3D-printed concrete walls on the first floor. Traditional framing above. Resilient, efficient, visibly modern.

03

Rooted in community.

Bayou trail at your back door. STEM high school next door. A working farmer across the street. You move in connected.

04

Attainable, period.

High $200s list. $40K–$80K in stacked down-payment assistance. Effective price: $200K–$240K. Within reach of the working median.

The Streets

Four streets. Four meanings.
You're choosing more than a lot.

Zuri means beautiful. Each street carries its own meaning in Swahili, its own color story, its own ritual. You don't live at an address. You live on Hami. You live on Nia.

Hami
HAH-mee
The Protector
Great Hami Lane
Bold florals. Front-stoop benches. The street that watches out for the rest. Phase I.
Nia
NEE-ah
The Purpose
Energetic Nia Drive
Where the Model lives. Geometric powder bath. Where most journeys begin. Phase I.
Amali
ah-MAH-lee
The Hope
Amali Way
Sunrise palette. The first-time-buyer street. Adopt-a-Bed plaques in brass.
Lela
LEH-lah
The Poetic
Lela Court
Twilight blues. Quiet by design. The contemplative street.
Look Inside

Minimalist, inside and out.
The rest of the home.

Every Zuri home is minimalist on purpose — exteriors and interiors both. Clean lines. Natural light. Finishes that hold up. Kitchen, bedroom, patio — and the community, from above.

The Neighborhood

You don't just move into Zuri.
You move into a corner of Houston that already has a soul.

Three things make this address rare. We didn't build them. We're just lucky enough to sit at their intersection.

GARDENS · TRAILS · SCHOOLS · 13.2 ACRES
ACROSS THE STREET

Soko Mornings
with the farmer across the street

A working farmer lives across the road. She grows. We pot. The kids carry harvest home in repurposed terra cotta. We call it Soko Mornings — soko (SOH-koh) is Swahili for market. First Saturday of each month, on the lawn.

Saturdays · 9–11 AM · Open lawn · No RSVP required
BEHIND THE COMMUNITY

Sims Bayou Trail

A walking trail wraps the back of Zuri Gardens — herons in the morning, cyclists at dusk. Forty acres of green that doesn't have your name on it but feels like it does.

~ 100 ft from your back fence · Houston Parks
NEXT DOOR

Sterling Aviation High

A STEM-focused high school sits next door. Future engineers and aviators learn beside the first robotically-built homes in the city. The proximity is poetic and we didn't plan it.

HISD · STEM · Public
TEN MINUTES AWAY

Houston Botanic Garden

132 acres of themed gardens on Sims Bayou — culinary, coastal prairie, global. A short bike ride along the trail. The botanic name we couldn't have planned but feel lucky to share.

Open daily 9–5 · ~ 10 min by car · ~ 30 min by bike via the trail
The Two Homes

Calm shells. Whimsical souls.

Both homes share the same minimalist architectural language — clean lines, calming interiors, generous light. What's different is the powder bath: each home's wildcard tied to its street's identity.

Zahara kitchen rendering — modern minimalist with tile backsplash and waterfall island
PLAN ONE · ZAHARA

Zahara

Swahili: blossom, flower · 1,360 SF · 2 bed · 2.5 bath
  • Square footage1,360 SF
  • Bedrooms · Bathrooms2 · 2.5
  • Wall systemHybrid · printed 1st / framed 2nd
  • OutdoorCovered side patio
  • Powder bathWhimsical, custom-designed
YOUR PRICE WITH ASSISTANCE $200K – $240K
List from the high $200s. Most Zuri buyers stack $40K–$80K in down-payment assistance — your real number is calculated in your portal.
See your real number →
Azizi kitchen rendering — elevated finish package with tile backsplash and pendant lighting
PLAN TWO · AZIZI

Azizi

Swahili: precious, valuable · 1,360 SF · 2 bed · 2.5 bath
  • Square footage1,360 SF
  • Bedrooms · Bathrooms2 · 2.5
  • Wall systemHybrid · printed 1st / framed 2nd
  • OutdoorCovered back patio
  • FinishesElevated package
YOUR PRICE WITH ASSISTANCE $200K – $240K
List from the high $200s. Most Zuri buyers stack $40K–$80K in down-payment assistance — your real number is calculated in your portal.
See your real number →
Financing, Beautifully

Down-payment assistance, in plain English.

Houston has layers of help available. Most people don't know they qualify. Your real number is almost always lower than you think.

The Zuri Down-Payment Stack

Houston buyers can stack down-payment-assistance programs ranging from $5,000 to as much as $80,000 — depending on income, family size, and a few certifications you can complete in a weekend. Your concierge runs the math live, in one twenty-minute call.

ASSISTANCE RANGE
$5K – $80K
Stacked across city, county, and state programs based on your profile. Yours is calculated, not guessed.

Programs may include: City of Houston down-payment assistance, Harris County HOME, TSAHC My First Texas Home, SCORE, employer-assisted housing benefits. We map the eligible ones to you, not the reverse.

PREFERRED LENDER

Mission Mortgage

Your dedicated Zuri loan officer at Mission Mortgage knows every assistance program, every credit nuance, and the path that gets you to the closing table fastest.

Connected · Pre-approval live in your portal
Print Theater

You don't just buy a wall.
You watch it become one.

Your home is printed in concrete, layer by layer, by robotics and the team running them. Most builders hide the build. We turn it into your favorite show — and we'll put a seat with your name on it next to your printer.

  • The First SeatYour name on a chair the first day your printer starts. Family can come. We'll have coffee. Bring whoever you'd like there for it.
  • Saturday WorkshopsBring coffee. Watch your neighbor's home become real. Stay for harvest tables on the lawn.
  • Your Weekly Time-LapseSaturday at 9 AM, your phone buzzes. A 30-second video. Your walls, growing.
  • Print PartiesWalls finish? We throw your block a party. You're invited even if it's not your house.
Saturday Mornings
9AM
Time-lapse, in your inbox, every week through your build.
Move-In Day

Closing day, as it should feel.
An experience, not a transaction.

Title paperwork is signed the day before. On move-in morning, your print crew is on the porch. Your name is already on the door. Inside, your First Night Kit is waiting.

The First Night Kit.

A home should feel lived-in the second you walk in. So we set the small things before you arrive — and we leave the parts that matter.

THE COMMUNITY TRADITION
The Eighty.

Every Zuri homeowner signs the same card on move-in day. When the 80th family moves in, every household receives a copy. Eighty names. One neighborhood. A small reminder that you arrived together.

Crystal · Daniel · Cynthia · Ahmad ·
INSIDE YOUR KIT

Your First Night, Curated

  • a
    Candle, lit on arrivalScented for your street (Hami = bergamot, Nia = cedar)
  • b
    The Eighty CardSigned by every homeowner before you. You sign it next.
  • c
    Handwritten note from your blockFrom the families who moved in first. By name.
  • d
    Playlist, already playingCurated by your concierge from your survey answers
  • e
    Seed packetFor your Adopt-a-Bed plot. Plant something. We'll mark it.
After You Move In

The first year, by design.

Most builders disappear at closing. We stay. Here's what your first year looks like — every check-in is scheduled and pre-funded as part of your closing.

30
DAY THIRTY
The Settling-In Visit
Your concierge brings coffee. We walk the home together. Anything off, we note. Anything missing, we fix.
90
DAY NINETY
First Saturday Invite
You're invited to your first Soko Morning as a resident. 90 minutes, coffee, music, small things outside together. Vibe, not chore.
180
DAY ONE-EIGHTY
Join the Wahami
Want to be one of the community's stewards? HOA credits, monthly perks, no labor required. Wahami means protectors. Belonging, not obligation.
365
ONE YEAR
Your Print Anniversary
Card in the mail. Hand-painted tile from the print crew. Optional dinner on the lawn for all the homes printed that month.
Begin, when you're ready

Pour a coffee.
Tell us your name.

Twenty minutes with your Zuri Concierge. No PowerPoint. No pressure. We'll walk you through where you are, where the home of yours is, and what your real number looks like.

Or simply (832) 734-9874 inquiries@zurigardens.com

Updates from the field.

One email when something real happens — a wall printed, a model open, a new plan released. No spam.