Plans for a 500-acre residential development called Sage Meadows recently surfaced in Jonesboro.

Kent Arnold, a local real estate developer, and brothers Bob Troutt and Ed Troutt are the movers behind the project. The Troutts are assistant publishers of The Jonesboro Sun, which is owned by their family.

More than 2,000 residents are envisioned to live in homes carrying a minimum price tag of $110,000. More than 800 lots are expected to sell for at least $28,000 per homesite.

The village-style neighborhood will feature a semi-private 18-hole golf course. The 7,100-yard course will be built with Zoysia fairways, bent grass greens and Bermuda-dominated roughs.

The trio is shooting for May 1998 to open the course for play.

The property is just outside the Jonesboro city limits, near the southeast corner of state Highway 351 and Macedonia Road. The developers intend to seek annexation into the city in the coming weeks.

The development will mark the third golf course-driven residential project in as many years for Jonesboro. The back nine was recently completed at the RidgePointe Country Club development, and construction is under way on The Links apartment project, which will feature a 9-hole course.