The Southlake Master Plan needed to allow for growth and change over a 30-year period, yet needed to feel like a whole place upon the completion of the first phase.  For this reason, the town square was chosen as the form around which the overall master plan would be organized.  The first phase was constructed to a height of two stories in an “office over retail” format that provides for roughly equal amounts of each use.  The office tenants provide a weekday daytime population, which helps to support the retail use. Restaurants bring additional daytime patrons to Town Square as well as evening customers, which has been of great benefit to the retailers.  The developer and the city have worked together to sponsor events such as evening concerts, weekend festivals, and parades.  The inclusion of the City’s new town hall (which also contains county offices and functions) on a central site fronting onto the town square solidifies Town Square as the center of Southlake’s civic life.  This use adds additional daytime and evening (city council and other related meetings and hearings) population to the streets and public square. The now annual 3rd-of-July celebration attracted 20,000 residents and visitors last year.