1. Keller Independent School District
City: Keller, TX
Category: Education
Telephone: (817) 744-1000
Address: 350 Keller Parkway
Description: Here’s another of the rapidly growing school districts: Keller ISD‘s enrollment has more than doubled over the past decade and will likely grow from the current 30,000 students to 40,000 students in the coming decade. There are 35 campuses serving a 51-square-mile area including all of Keller and parts of Colleyville, Fort Worth, Haltom City, Hurst, North Richland Hills, Southlake, Watauga, and Westlake. There are 21 elementary schools, five intermediate and five middle schools, and five high schools.
2. Bear Creek Park
City: Keller, TX
Category: Parks & Recreation
Telephone: (817) 743-4050
Address: 400 Bear Creek Parkway
Description: A 44-acre space built around Big Bear Creek, this play space gives you a pond, two playgrounds, hike-and-bike trails, sandbox, picnic tables and grills, sand volleyball courts, basketball court, inline hockey rink, soccer fields, baseball fields, fire pit, drinking fountains, gazebos, pavilions, and a wild-scape garden with waterfall. Festivals and events are frequently staged at the park.
3. Keller Pointe Pool
City: Keller, TX
Category: Parks & Recreation
Telephone: (817) 743-4386
Address: 405 Rufe Snow Dr.
Description: A 16,970-square-foot aquatics center has it all—two pools, a hot tub, two lazy rivers, three vortex pools, three water slides, and two sets of water-playground equipment, with amenities divided between indoor and outdoor spaces. Water aerobics, scuba classes, swimming lessons, lifeguard training, and more are offered.
4. Keller Senior Activities Center
City: Keller, TX
Category: Relocation
Telephone: (817) 743-4370
Address: 660 Johnson Rd.
Description: With a gorgeous campus of Georgian redbrick buildings in the elite neighborhood of University Park, this private school with about 11,000 students offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools, specifically humanities and sciences; business; the performing, visual, and communication arts; engineering; education and human development; law; and theology. Additional campuses are in Plano and Taos, New Mexico. Of special interest is the statistic that SMU’s 10 libraries house the largest private collection of research materials in the Southwest; SMU was recently ranked in Forbes magazine as the 13th best university in the United States; and it houses a superior collection of Spanish art at the internationally acclaimed Meadows Museum. Founded in 1911, SMU is nonsectarian in its teaching. SMU’s athletic teams are the Mustangs.
5. Joli Petite Baby Boutique
City: Keller, TX
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (817) 741-6787
Address: 251 Town Center Lane
Description: There’s a design team that will make house calls to design your nursery, and custom baby bedding means you choose fabric and design and it’s made to fit your crib. There’s nursery furniture, including traditional and round cribs and cradles, too. Custom projects also include diaper stackers, toy bags, changing pad covers, window treatments, and more. Lines represented include Medela, Bratt Décor, Robeez, Kissy Kissy, 2 Red Hen, Bunnies by the Bay, and Caden Lane. Clothing and other accessories are sold, too.