On December 27, 1956, a new town was born. That’s the year when Dallas lawyer J. Glenn Turner, founder of the Circle T Ranch, led his neighbors in the effort to incorporate their properties into a new town, The Town of Westlake. The Town extended all the way from the western banks of the newly filled Lake Grapevine to present day Keller.

Mr. Turner and insurance magnate Troy Post soon drew up plans to develop the northern portion of the Town into a planned community. But Mr. Turner sold the ranch to Bunker Hunt in the early seventies and other developers fostered the planned development. Known as Trophy Club, the residential development was disannexed from Westlake, and the remaining Townspeople set about keeping and preserving their rural lifestyle. The beginning population of around 200 residents remained constant until the turn of the century.

In 1988 Maguire Partners opened a major corporate campus for IBM in the eastern part of the Town. Designed by internationally acclaimed Mexican architect, Ricardo Legorreta, and known as Solana, it established a high standard for future development. In the nineties, Fidelity Investments built its regional headquarters campus in the central part of Westlake, and Daimler Chrysler added its corporate campus on the west side. GlenWyck Farms and Vaquero soon followed with quality residential communities. Then First American relocated its corporate offices to Solana.

In 2001 Westlake sought and received the first Open Enrollment Charter School ever awarded to a municipality in Texas, and today operates one of the premier schools in the state…Westlake Academy, an IB World School.

50 years after its founding, The Town of Westlake has become one of the premier communities in Texas. Offering the highest development standards in the metroplex with no local property tax, Westlake is still as bucolic as ever ---even with its significant development.