ENTRADA GROWTH Developer Mooreland Construction has announced a number of plans for the 85-acre mixed-use Entrada development.
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Those projects included a 3,000-seat amphitheater, a hotel and convention center, a town hall, a wedding chapel, single-family homes and villas, restaurants, retail stores, and a movie theater. At the time, former city o cials voiced concerns about an apartment complex that was later pulled from the plans and expressed fears about what the development would do to the rural atmosphere in Westlake. Town Council Member Clif Cox also expressed uncertainty about the project in 2013. “I’m concerned about the perceived impact on the town,” Cox said in a Community Impact article in May 2013. “[Westlake] is kind of quiet, kind of sleepy.” More than nine years since the project received clearance from Westlake, there are fewer than 12 businesses within Entrada. Phase 1 of the project included the infrastructure work of water, sewer and roads. Phase 2, which will include the retail portion of the $500 million devel- opment, has seen delays and questions from the council about what will happen. “We are positive [about the direction] but
Mike Beaty, the developer, announced he has lined up three restaurants to ll spots in Westlake.
Walters Wedding Estates will operate The Chapel at Palacios, which will hold up to 200 guests when it opens.
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cautiously optimistic,” Westlake Mayor Sean Kilbride said. A slow start Je ory Blackard of the Blackford Group and Meh- rdad Moayedi of Centurion American originally pre- sented the plan for the Entrada project in December 2012. It then received approval from town council in April 2013. Blackard had experience developing a European-inspired mixed-use development as he created Adriatica Village in McKinney in 2006. When the land was purchased for the Entrada development, it was zoned for use as o ce space before being changed to mixed-use. That was one of the rst delays in getting the project started,
according to Beaty. A $26.3 million public improvement district was started and funded in 2015 to help with the infra- structure of the proposed development that covered roadwork, parking garages, canals and ponds. A year after that was initiated, the administrator of the dis- trict, MuniCap Inc., was removed after the town of Westlake found it had a liation with the developer. Council then became the district’s administrators. Another delay in the project came because hand- laid stone and cast cement were to be used during construction. Beaty noted that caused a delay because the developer could not just pour con- crete and use molds of rocks to accomplish the desired appearance. There are hand-placed rocks
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