Grapevine - Colleyville - Southlake | February 2022

Colleyville has been working on its commercial corridor beautication project for the last three years, Place 3 City Council Member Kathy Wheat said at a Nov. 16 City Councilmeeting. The city held its ground- breaking ceremony to construct two new towers at Main Street and Hwy. 26 on Nov. 16. The beautication project is broken into three phases. Phase 1 added decorative light poles, while Phase 2 encompassed a median and right-of-way beautication, according to the city’s website. Both phases are complete. Phase 3 is split into three sub-phases. The Main Street site at Hwy. 26 is the rst and features the new towers, lanterns, canopy trees and improvements to intersection corners, the website stated. A second construction site will be at John McCain Road and Hwy. 26. It includes a Colleyville identity sign, a tower element, stone walls, agstone and a native meadow. The third site of Phase 3 is at Little Bear Creek and Hwy. 26, according to the website. It will have a Col- leyville identity sign, a tower element, stone steps, ornamental trees and a future trailhead. “We want our business owners to feel that we iden- tify with quality—not just in the businesses we attract and the way that those businesses operate within exceptional buildings with architecture and landscap- ing, but we alsowant them to feel like they’re part of a community corridor that is exceptional,” Ducay said.

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redevelopments through key property purchases, Ducay said. For example, the city bought acreage at Colleyville’s northern and southern entrances. Colleyville City Council is still working on the concepts and ideas for those spaces, but Lindamood said businesses have already shown interest in both gateways. “We [bought] those [for] strategic purposes for the opportunity to control the development, to ensure that the quality was in keeping with what we wanted, but also to spur opportunity,” Ducay said.

start businesses right in the community. “One of the things that Colleyville’s very fortunate about is, evenwhenwe’ve had situationswherewe’ve had vacancies, our occupancy rates have maintained very strong numbers,” Ducay said. “We’re always over 90% occupancy in our retail, and that’s better than the national average.” Citywide redevelopment andbeautication The city’s economic growth has also come from

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