By the 1990s, lots of people were moving in and businesses were popping up along Southlake Boulevard, but something was missing: a downtown. In 1996, the firm of Cooper and Stebbins approached the city with a bold shopping-center concept called Town Square. The city and the developer worked long and hard to make it a reality. The first phase of Town Square opened in 1999. Its centerpiece, Town Hall, became home to city offices previously located in the fire station building on Carroll Avenue, as well as to Southlake’s library (residents had been borrowing books from Grapevine). Town Square’s second and third phases opened in 2006. Today, commercial and residential growth continues in a big way. But it’s the people, not the growth, that made the city what it is. It’s the people who walked incorporation petitions door to door in 1956. They’re the ones who over the years have attended innumerable meetings of the city council and of citizen’s advisory groups, coming together to voice both suggestions and concerns. It’s the teachers and school board members and volunteers who molded an exemplary school district from a small school that got no respect. And it’s old friends and new who helped one other, whether at church, in their neighborhoods or through the chamber of commerce or various civic clubs. Ask anyone who’s lived in Southlake for more than a few decades, and they’ll tell you it was the people who made Southlake. And that continues today. More history of Southlake Texas.
Tax Rate for the City of Southlake is .4620 per $100 value, Tarrant county rate is .629857 per $100 value and Carroll isd is 1.415 per $100 Total Tax Rate is 2.506857 per $100 value
|
