Southlake is an attractive planned community between Fort Worth and the BIG DFW airport complex. Clean, tidy and organized, the town felt too new to everyone; so the developers determined to take a page out of Texas history and copy the design of the courthouse squares of our numbers county seats. If squeaky clean and too new, the concept is still attractive. The Tarrant County subcourthouse is at one end and the gazebo is at the other. Plenty of parking is surround by dozens of stores of the Crate and Barrel and Chico's variety with a Post Office and other stores on a nearby street.
I counted at least 5 restaurants so that you can rest a bit while shopping. There are also apartments above many of the shops and much housing walking distance away, a concept alien to most Texas cities and towns. A relatively easy commute to both Fort Worth and Dallas, Southlake is a very nice place to shop and live.
A center of activity for holiday events and concerts, the Southlake Square is really a very nice idea. My favorite store after Chico's (famous for travel clothing) has to be the Container Store, the place to find all sorts of clever storage ideas and gift-wrapping supplies. They have 19 different kinds of hangers!
Parking at the shop door is an idea whose time has returned. This convenience (and security) is one reason The Square is so successful.