The honest national picture: installed artificial turf runs about $5 to $20 per square foot, most residential lawns land between $8 and $14, and a typical 500 square foot yard prices out around $4,000 to $9,000. Those are published national ranges, not a Meadow quote, they exist so you can sanity-check any number you are handed, including ours.
What moves a specific yard up or down that range is concrete: how much old grass and soil has to be demoed and hauled, how deep the base needs to be, the turf's pile height and face weight, and how easy it is to get a trailer to the work. A small, open Meadow lot with straightforward access tends to sit toward the friendlier end. Quotes are free, so the real number for your yard costs nothing to find out.
The other half of the meadow math is what the install retires. A natural lawn on the South Plains is a standing commitment to watering, mowing, seeding, and patching, every year, forever. A turf yard converts that recurring cost into a one-time build, and manufacturers typically rate landscape turf for 15 to 20 years of service, which is a long time to not think about the lawn.
Distance deserves a straight answer too. Meadow sits in Terry County brush country, and the trip from Lubbock costs the same whether the crew installs one strip or the whole yard, so the strongest per-foot numbers here go to full conversions and bundled jobs, the lawn plus the play corner, the front plus the dog run. That math is worth seeing shown on a bid instead of buried, and checking it against the national ranges above takes about a minute.