Carrollton
“Kid-Friendly” Carrollton TX Real Estate
By The Buehlers and Associates

Named a national Kid-Friendly City, a Tree City USA, and Texas’ Safest City, Carrollton’s Texas neighborhoods are the cornerstone of her strength.  Add quality schools, infrastructure, shopping, medical services, civic opportunities, and a booming economy, and find that Carrollton homes and neighborhoods like Castle Hills and Coyote Ridge are abuzz with responsive citizens.  Carrollton TX real estate winds through 38 square miles of northern Dallas near Flower Mound real estate in a convenient setting brimming with parks and green belts where happy “kids” in all stages of life feel quite at home.

Beautiful parks and golf courses punctuate the tree-lined streets and embellish the riverbanks of Carrollton’s Texas real estate.  Over the decades, her citizens have generously bequeathed hundreds of acres of prime open space for public enjoyment.  The Crosby Community Center houses meeting rooms and classrooms, a boxing ring, gymnasium, weight room, handball and racquetball courts, game areas and hosts educational and leisure activities and classes.  The fabulous Oak Creek Tennis Center features a dozen lighted hard courts and serves as one of the premier full-service, tennis facilities in north Texas.

Included in the long list of well-maintained parks and lakes, bike trails and golf courses are glimpses of history.  The Perry Family from Illinois homesteaded 640 acres in 1844, building a house and farm, which as the A.W. Perry Homestead Museum provides a peek into life in north central Texas at the turn of the 20th century.  Another endowment, by the Bramblitt Family, is the Elm Fork Nature Preserve (ca. 1861), an undisturbed, 40-acre ecosystem given to the city.  The preserve offers an Interpretive Center with a nature-education library open for classes as well as trails through habitat fit for nine-banded armadillos, great blue herons, great horned owls, woodpeckers, and much more. 

What kids wouldn’t love to live in a city that allows teens to rule?  A committee of ten high school teens called The Youth Task Force is appointed by the City Council as a communications link between area teens and the Council.

Kids and parents also appreciate numerous excellent learning environments nurtured by both public and private institutions.  The Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District includes a diversified curriculum tailored to each student's needs.  By encouraging community involvement and parental support, the district is able to provide bilingual education, gifted education, fine arts, special education, English as a Second Language, vocational education, computer technology, business education, and advanced placement courses—along with co-curricular activities and athletics.  A long list of private and parochial schools also work to equip students with the lifetime-learning skills necessary for responsible future citizens.  The metropolitan area is also plump full of technical schools and institutions of higher learning, cultural avenues, and a cornucopia of opportunities.

The thriving city is geographically situated in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, an excellent location within the economic hub, near major highways, airports, rail freight carriers, and inside a Foreign Trade Zone.  By 2010, the new DART light rail service will be turning the city into a transportation bug for its 75,000-member workforce, 5,200 businesses, and 120,000 citizens.

Residents can access amenities in every direction.  To begin the list, there’s a collection of top-notch hotels catering to the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport about 20 minutes to the southwest.  The Grapevine Mills Mall wholesale outlet and entertainment complex and popular Lake Grapevine are directly to the west.  Refreshing Lewisville Lake is just 10 minutes north and Lewisville’s Vista Ridge Mall and cuisine for every mood and budget are just northwest of town.

The visionary city plans to transform itself over time from its suburban identity to a renaissance urban community.  Working together, the city government along with several community organizations and a wide variety of businesses and citizens are carving out that dynamic future, balancing tradition living with modern life and recreation with cultural options.  This medium-sized city offers the great blend of big-city flare and rural-Texas ambiance—a nurturing environment for growth and for kids.