Neighborhood · São Paulo/SP
Tamboré
The discreet half of the pairing west of São Paulo: it was born from the same farm as Alphaville, but bet on the large lot — and only began building towers in the 2000s.
The neighbourhood’s story
The land is the Fazenda Tamboré, belonging to the Álvares Penteado and Ulhôa Rodrigues families. It was from there that the five hundred hectares sold in 1973 for the Alphaville project came — and it was Tamboré SA itself, created in the 1960s to plan the occupation of the remaining land, that opened the neighbourhood’s first residential development in the late 1980s, over 1.8 million square metres, with lots starting above a thousand metres. It worked so well that Tamboré 2 and Tamboré 3 followed, and later Shopping Tamboré, today the largest commercial complex in the region. The difference in temperament from its neighbour lies right there: Alphaville had already gone vertical in the 1980s; Tamboré only began its verticalisation in the 2000s and remains a land neighbourhood before being a building neighbourhood. Split between Barueri and Santana de Parnaíba, it shares its shops, schools and business centre with Alphaville — including the failed 1990s attempt to break away and become a single municipality together with its neighbour.
Lots on a scale that Greater São Paulo no longer produces. The land was subdivided just once, and what exists today changes owner — not size.
Tamboré: the same ground as Alphaville, with more lot and less tower. A farm subdivided half an hour from São Paulo.
The surrounding area
- Clubs: each residential development functions as its own club, with clay courts, a pitch, a jogging track and a clubhouse within its walls; the sporting infrastructure of Alphaville, starting with the Alphaville Tênis Clube, is a few minutes away.
- Schools: the Colégio Presbiteriano Mackenzie Tamboré, with extensive green space and three international programmes, and the Alphaville campus of Mackenzie and UNIP for higher education; the Escola Primeiro Passo keeps a 10,000 m² campus in the neighbourhood dedicated to early childhood, and the whole international school network of Alphaville is next door.
- Dining and lifestyle: Shopping Tamboré, an open-air concept mall, and Iguatemi Alphaville; the restaurants and services of the neighbouring business centre serve both neighbourhoods.
- Parks: the greenery is internal — native forest preserved within the residential developments themselves, and the boundary with the Jaraguá Mirim reserve, at one of the highest points in the region.
In the Fragata archive
There are 3 developments from the portfolio in the neighbourhood (the backlinks panel lists them all): Tamboré 1, Tamboré 2 and Tamboré 3.
