Living in Crescent Hills

Crescent Hills sits off Cross Hollow Road on Cedar City's west side. That road is not a quiet side street: it carries traffic between Highway 56 and Interstate 15 at Exit 57. That is part of why the neighborhood reaches the rest of town so directly.

Alex Meisner Construction broke ground on Crescent Hills in 2017 and was the subdivision's only builder. Over the years that followed, they built more than 250 homes, and the neighborhood has since sold out. There are no more lots and no more new homes from the builder. That is the biggest thing to understand before you compare it to a newer west-side subdivision that is still building. What you are shopping here is a settled, finished neighborhood, not a construction zone.

It looks like what it is, a single-builder subdivision, and a consistent one. You see one company's design style across ten-plus floor plans, built street by street rather than put together by many developers over decades. That sameness is a real trade. You get more even construction quality and a finished street look, but less of the mixed look you would find in an older Cedar City neighborhood with many builders.

Every home in Crescent Hills came from Alex Meisner Construction's own plan book, and that book was wide. Documented floor plans include the Dayton, Sonoma, Hayward, Seneca, Dover, Godfrey, Willow, Madison, Espresso, and Dawson. They run from roughly 1,412 square feet up to the two-story Seneca at about 2,128 square feet. Most are three bedrooms and two baths with a two-car garage, and several offer a third-car option. A number were built with a basement, which adds real square footage beyond the main-floor number on a listing.

The subdivision is sold out, so there is no builder starting price to quote anymore. What matters now is resale. Recent closed and active listings I have tracked span roughly the high $400,000s to the mid $600,000s. The gap comes from square footage, whether the basement is finished, garage size, and general condition. A smaller plan without a finished basement and a larger plan with one can be six figures apart, even on the same street.

I look at every Crescent Hills listing by its plan name and finished square footage, not the bedroom count alone. Two "three-bedroom" homes here can differ by 400 or more square feet, depending on which plan they started from.

Crescent Hills is part of the Iron County School District. West-side neighborhoods in this part of Cedar City are generally linked to North Elementary (grades K-5). The middle and high schools most often tied to this side of town are Cedar Middle School and Cedar High School.

The district is changing which elementary schools serve which streets for the 2026-27 school year, and it is adjusting middle and high school boundaries for 2027-28. So an assignment that looks settled today can change before your closing. Check the current assignment for any specific address with the Iron County School District rather than assuming it from this page or a listing. For outside school data, GreatSchools and Niche both publish numbers you can weigh yourself. I do not rank schools on community pages.

Crescent Hills has crossed a line that a lot of Cedar City subdivisions have not: the builder is finished. Alex Meisner Construction sold the last lot and has since moved its active projects to other communities around Cedar City and Enoch. That is a different spot in the market than a subdivision that is still filling in.

For buyers, every home you look at here is a resale, so you are judging the finishes, the upkeep, and any updates a prior owner made. You are not comparing a new home built before it had a buyer against a decade-old floor plan of the same name. The neighborhood's overall look and feel will not change much year to year, because there is no more land to build on.

For sellers, it cuts both ways. In a subdivision that is still building, resales compete against fresh builder incentives and model-home staging. Here you do not, which can work in your favor. But you also do not have a builder's marketing budget bringing buyers to the area, so your pricing and presentation have to carry more of the weight on their own.