CVS Pharmacy and Primrose School are the first two commercial businesses to get approval to be built in Entrada, Westlake’s first mixed-use development. This week Town Council approved site plans for the companies, which will be architecturally unique to fit Entrada’s Spanish village design. 

Mayor Laura Wheat asked representatives from both CVS and Primrose if they had ever seen a development style like this and both smiled and said “No,” acknowledging that the architecture standards are far higher and more complex than found elsewhere. 

From the tile roofs to the pave stone streets, Entrada will reflect the feel of a Catalonian village. This upscale live-work-play center will include retail, restaurants, hotels, entertainment, office and medical space, water features, an amphitheater, conference center uses and about 300 single family detached homes, villas, and town homes. 

Wheat stressed the importance of successful design and quality construction for these first buildings in the development. 

“It’s critical… you are really setting the standard,” the mayor said. “This really will work to define what this development will be going forward.” 

Infrastructure construction began about a year ago at the 85-acre site, located at S.H. 114 and F.M. 1938. Funding for the public infrastructure is from Public Improvement District bonds, which will be paid for by the property owners. Completion of the CVS and Primrose is expected by the end of 2016.