What's Next for Southlake's Old Dragon Stadium

🏟️ What's Next for Old Dragon Stadium and Southlake's Library

🏛️ Four Grapevine Landmarks Are Getting a Facelift

🚗 Keller Weighs Garage Condos for Luxury Cars

❤️ Local Favorite: Three Decades of Dinner in Old Town Roanoke

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🏟️ What's Next for Old Dragon Stadium and Southlake's Library

Two of Southlake's biggest community projects are back in front of the City Council on Tuesday, Nov. 17. It's a discussion, not a vote: city staff wants direction before both projects go into planning for next year's capital budget.

The first is the Parkwood Project. In June 2025, the council picked the 12.7-acre city-owned Parkwood property as the preferred home for a new public library, a Veterans Memorial and an all-abilities playground. At its summer workshop this June, the council said it wanted to look at other ways, and possibly other places, to deliver some of those pieces, so staff will bring alternatives for each one.

The second is Old Dragon Stadium at 2400 N. Carroll Ave., home field for Carroll's first three state championship football teams in 1988, 1992 and 1993. The city finished buying the nearly 15-acre property from Carroll ISD in August to keep it for community use. Staff will walk through the site's current condition, a few near-term improvements for the 2027 budget and how residents should be brought into planning its future, which would start next fiscal year.

No final plans or funding are up for approval yet. The meeting starts at 5:30 PM at Town Hall, 1400 Main St., and this is one of the last items on the agenda.

Read the staff memo in the Nov. 17 council packet (large PDF) → | Read the Fort Worth Report's story on the stadium sale →

🏛️ Four Grapevine Landmarks Are Getting a Facelift

Some of the most familiar storefronts on Grapevine's Main Street are about to look a little more like their old selves. Grapevine Economic Development has picked the first four projects for its new Historic Grapevine Commercial Façade Program, a pilot that matches up to $10,000 per project to restore buildings that are at least 50 years old. The grants are paid from sales tax revenue.

Here's what's getting fixed:

The catch is that restorations have to use or copy the original materials and building methods as closely as possible, which makes them trickier than a typical update. The program plans to take a new round of applications in 2027.

Read Grapevine Economic Development's announcement →

🚗 Keller Weighs Garage Condos for Luxury Cars

A different kind of garage could be coming to Keller Parkway. On Tuesday, Nov. 17, the City Council holds a public hearing on rezoning about 5.6 acres on the east side of North Pate Orr Road, just north of Keller Parkway, for a project called Garages of America.

The plan calls for a three-story self-storage building with about 610 units, plus two buildings of privately owned garage condominiums, 42 units in all, and a clubhouse. The developer describes the condos as gated space for high-end and luxury vehicles; owners could do light cosmetic work on their cars, but no one could live there. To fit the narrow site, the request asks for a third story on the storage building (still capped at 35 feet), 6.7% open space instead of the usual 15% and landscape buffers of 2 to 3 feet where 10 is normally required.

Planning and Zoning recommended approval 7-0 on Oct. 27. The city mailed 46 notices to nearby owners and had received one letter of opposition. The meeting starts at 7 PM at Keller Town Hall, 1100 Bear Creek Parkway.

Review the Nov. 17 council agenda → | See the city staff's presentation on the project →

❤️ Local Favorite: Three Decades of Dinner in Old Town Roanoke

❤️ Local Favorite: The Classic Cafe | 504 N. Oak St., Roanoke

The Classic Cafe opened in Old Town Roanoke in May 1993 with a simple goal: a world-class menu in a casual, relaxed room. More than 30 years later, it's still on Oak Street, and the restaurant says it has served neighbors from Roanoke and Trophy Club to Westlake, Keller and Southlake along the way.

The menu leans on fresh seafood, premium steaks and pastas that change with the seasons, plus a few old-school favorites like jägerschnitzel, coq au vin and a chicken-fried beef tenderloin with cream gravy. Fried lobster bites and baked brie are popular ways to start. There's a full bar with craft cocktails, and live classical guitar plays in the bar on Friday and Saturday nights. It's open for dinner Monday through Saturday and closed Sundays, with curbside pickup and local delivery too.

The Classic Cafe | (817) 430-8185

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