Grapevine - Colleyville - Southlake | August 2025

Development

BY GABBY BAILEY & CODY THORN

Southlake mayor unveils new public library plans During an address to the Southlake Chamber of Commerce on July 24, Mayor Shawn McCaskill announced the city is working on plans to build a public library that will also encompass a veterans memorial. The breakdown The new library and memorial would be off Byron Nelson Boulevard across the street from Rocken- baugh Elementary School, McCaskill said. The land where the library will be built, called the Parkwood site, already is city owned. “We have our city library in the basement, basically, of town hall. They do a great job with the space they’re provided, but parking is a challenge,” McCaskill said. He said that for years there have been plans to move the library to its own freestanding location. The veterans memorial was already planned, with

Dig World to come to Grapevine Mills Dig World, a construction-themed adven- ture park, announced July 16 that it would be opening a location at Grapevine Mills. The gist Guests can operate real, full-size construc- tion equipment, engineered with modifica- tions that make it safe for kids to use. The estimated opening is spring of 2026, according to a news release. It will be located in the southwest corner of the mall.

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McCaskill making the announcement Nov. 10, 2024. The timeline The original plan was to break ground on the veterans memorial in 2025. With the addition of the library, McCaskill said the timeline for the library and memorial to open would be “a couple years” from now. “I think [it’s] more than a year away from breaking ground, then another year and a half or two years after that before the door is open,” he said.

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