A "suburb" of sorts north of Ft Worth on TX-114 west of Grapevine.
This started out as a bunch of houses surrounding a golf course.
It's now a city for the well-to-do who probably consider themselves lower middle class to mid-middle class by north Texas standards. Don't kid yourself.
It's all residential.
Most cities have a 70/30 split: 70% residential and 30% commercial, based on property taxes, and the like.
Trophy Club, TX?
That city's split is 99/1. Ninety-nine percent residential, and 1% commercial.
To say the least, they are screaming for more commercial.
And it's going to be restaurants. To start.
A few weeks ago I mentioned that the metroplex (DFW) is unofficially estimated to have a population of 7.5 million with light rail connecting Ft Worth, Grapevine, DFW, and Dallas.
It is officially forecast that by 2050 the metroplex will have a population of 50 million. Growth will shift from north of Dallas (McKinney, Frisco, and Plano) to north of Ft Worth. Roanoke will be the center of that population growth. The crossroads at TX-114 and I-35W now have a huge outlet mall, the Texas Motor Speedway, and a Buc-ee’s. And an airport. And a BNSF intermodal complex. And a GE facility manufacturing BNSF locomotives.
The Sunday edition of The Dallas Morning News:
Trophy Club has 13,500 residents and only 12 residential lots are left in the whole town. The town cannot grow geographically; it is surrounded by other incorporated jurisdictions.Trophy Club, geographically, is all the bigger it's going to get.
One of the first restaurants the city snagged is one of our favorites: Meat U Anywhere, barbecue.
The second was Bread Winners Cafe; we've not been there.
Trophy Club bought plots of land along TX-114 and offered them to developers with tax breaks for commercial development. The most recent: HG SPLY Co.
We haven't been there but will go there tomorrow. May says she has too many errands today to go to HG SPLY Co.
What's the average size a sit-down restaurant? I don't know. Maybe, 5,000 square feet.
HG SPLY Co: 28,000 square feet with a section that caters to Sophia, 5 years old, and a section that caters to me. LOL
HG SPLY CO. opened five days ago.
Whoo-hoo!
No wonder Texans rank high on the "heavy" list.
Disclaimer: I often make typographical and factual errors. It is hard to separate fact from opinion on this blog. I would write exuberantly about any location where I live, or have lived, or am likely to live someday in the future.
By the way, if you've read this far, a word of advice worth hundreds of dollars.
Trophy Club.
The city is a sought-after location for police and law enforcement. Over the years, the police department has grown to be one of the biggest on a per capita basis in the area.
99 /1 split. Ninety-nine percent residential / one percent commercial.
Where does most crime take place?
On commercial property. Sure, there are some home burglaries and some domestic disputes, but when you get right down to it, crime is also a 99 / 1 split: 99% of crime is committed in commercial / government public areas; 1% is committed on private property.
What does that mean?
The cops in Trophy Club are really, really bored.
It is guaranteed that if you drive through Trophy Club you will get picked up by the local police for any infraction, no matter how trivial. Rolling through right-turn-red-lights is probably high on the list.
Just saying.
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