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Westlake

Fast-Growing Westlake Sprinting Toward Potential 2026-27 Residential Buildout

Climb into a big green ATV and head out in any direction from Seminole Pratt Whitney Road, which bisects the 4,192-acre City of Westlake, and you’ll find yourself bumping and rocking over land cleared for houses, businesses and a...

Westlake Council Votes To Keep 2024 Millage Rate Unchanged

The Westlake City Council voted Tuesday, July 11 to hold the line on residential property taxes for the upcoming fiscal year, keeping the tax rate at 5.1 mills, the same as the current year. The decision comes despite the fact...

Westlake’s Council Not HAPPY With Home Assistance Program

The City of Westlake has $2.5 million sitting in its Housing Assistance Purchase Program Yearly (HAPPY) trust fund to help first-time and lower-income homebuyers, and no way to use it. City Manager Kenneth Cassel and council members agree on the...

Minto Releases New Homesites In The Woodlands Of Westlake

Minto Communities has released new homesites for its Indigo Collection of home designs at the Woodlands of Westlake, the newest single-family neighborhood available for sale in the Westlake master-planned community. The collection offers eleven floorplans that will be built on...

New Westlake Publix Expected To Be Driver For Further Growth

The large and long-awaited Publix supermarket, which includes a pharmacy and liquor store, is open in the Westlake Plaza on Seminole Pratt Whitney Road, but growth in the City of Westlake isn’t taking a breather. At the Westlake City Council’s...

Magazine Ranks Minto Communities Among Top 50 Builders In U.S.

For the second time in as many months, Minto Communities USA has been recognized among the top 100 builders in the U.S. Minto ranked 45th on Builder magazine’s 2023 annual Builder 100 list — up from the 55th position...

Developer Minto Introduces Two New Single-Family Floor Plans At Westlake

Minto Communities USA, the master developer and primary builder in Westlake, is introducing two smaller floor plans that will give homebuyers on a budget a lower-cost option for a single-family home. Both plans will be released for sale June...

Westlake Works With SID To Develop Vision For 50-Acre Park

Members of the Westlake City Council and the Seminole Improvement District (SID) Board of Supervisors met in a joint workshop Wednesday, April 26 to begin shaping the vision for a planned 50-acre park off Seminole Pratt Whitney Road. The site,...

Minto Opens Sales In The Woodlands Of Westlake

Minto Communities USA, the master developer and primary builder in Westlake, has opened sales for the Woodlands of Westlake. The new neighborhood will include 164 homesites at build out, many with water views. The Woodlands is located on Town...

Minto Opens Final Phase Of $22 Million Adventure Park In Westlake

Minto Communities USA has unveiled its newest amenities in the community of Westlake. The award-winning developer/builder has completed construction of the final phase of its $22 million resort-style Westlake Adventure Park, the centerpiece for social gatherings and activities at...

HAPPY, ‘Heroes’ Help Westlake Boom, While Keeping City Safe

The City of Westlake and its major developer/landowner Minto have positioned it as a place where those who run toward danger can find affordable homes and feel safe and appreciated. That has paid off in robust home sales and...

Westlake Council: Public Art Requirement Off To Impressive Start

James Business Park is “setting the bar incredibly high” for all businesses that will follow Westlake’s first Art in Public Places project, agreed members of the Westlake City Council, who approved the design at their Tuesday, March 14 meeting. “I’m...

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New PBSO Captain For The Acreage, Groves And Westlake

In the early 1990s, when Robert Sandt first trekked through the palmetto scrub of what is now part of...