DTX-GCS: Impact 9/22/2025

For the month of August, the Grapevine, Colleyville and Southlake area experienced a year-over-year increase in the number of homes sold, growing from 151 homes sold in August 2024 to 175 homes sold in August 2025. Check out data on these and other year-over-year real estate trends including:

• Number of homes sold
• Median home sales price
• Average days on the market
• Homes sold by price point

Katy Lemieux and Valerie Walizadeh opened their independent bookstore, Talking Animals Books, two years ago with a dream and a crowdfunding campaign.

The store has found success as the first independent bookstore in Grapevine. Lemieux and Walizadeh said their store sells books and provides a third space, or a place separate from home and work where people can freely gather and socialize.

What’s special about it: The Talking Animals Books is located at Grapevine’s historic downtown in a building that used to be a bank. A teller’s station is now used as a reading nook for children who visit the store. The walls along the staircase leading to the second floor of the store describe an incident where Bonnie and Clyde's gang once robbed the bank.

Polly Plumbing is now open for business, with a location in Keller.

During the Celebrate Southlake event Sept. 6, owners and Southlake residents Polly and Haven Brady had a booth to promote their plumbing business, which opened Sept. 8.

The details: Services provided include plumbing, drain, gas line work, water heaters, and water filtration and softeners, according to their website.

The coverage area for the company will include Keller, Southlake, Westlake, Trophy Club, Colleyville, Grapevine, North Richland Hills and Flower Mound, Polly Brady, who is the CEO of the company, said.

Work provided can be residential or commercial, Polly Brady said. One of the first service calls was replacing 1,000 feet of gas lines in a local church.

Quote of note: “I was really tired of the home service industry and the customer experience that I was receiving and I just wanted to make it right,” Brady said.

Denton County commissioners approved the $2.1 million purchase of the Ponder Volunteer Fire Station at a Sept. 9 meeting as part of an effort to improve emergency services to unincorporated areas, according to a news release.

The gist: Proceeds from the sale will fund 24/7 staffing for emergency services at the Ponder fire station through October 2028, the release states. Denton County will lease the fire station to the Ponder Fire Department for $1 a year, according to county documents, and provide an ambulance to serve the town’s emergency response zone, per the news release.