Business View Magazine | November 2020

270 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2020 L ocated in the heart of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, the community of Colleyville, Texas, is known for its spacious neighborhoods, inclusive lifestyle, and small-town charm. With a population of 25,000, the city offers a unique living experience, working to uphold its core values of quality and excellence. Colleyville has its roots as a rural community in an area first settled in the 1850s between Big Bear Creek and Little Bear Creek in the central portion of northeastern Tarrant County. Soon after the town of Bransford was founded there in 1880, Dr. Lilburn Howard Colley, a veteran of the Union Army, and his wife, moved to the community. Over four decades, he became one of the best-known physicians in northeast Tarrant County and was widely recognized as a town leader in Bransford. Colley’s name became associated with a community that formed around a store opened by W.G. Couch, south of Bransford in 1914, and the surrounding area gradually acquired the name “Colleyville.” Today’s Colleyville is an upscale community with a mostly residential tax base – truly a city that is working for its citizens. As Mayor Richard Newton explains, “When the staff receive a phone call from any citizen, they respond that day. Period. Even if we don’t have an answer to their question immediately, they are going to get a call to let them know they are acknowledged, and they will get a follow-up.” Adrienne Lothery, Assistant City Manager, adds, “Our city’s way of interacting with our citizens reflects that kind of small-town, white-glove service.” With State Highway 26, known to locals as Colleyville Boulevard, running through AT A GLANCE COLLEYVILLE, TEXAS WHAT: A city of 25,000 WHERE: In northeastern Tarrant County, north of Dallas/Ft. Worth WEBSITE: www.colleyville.com , Quality lifestyle, by design