The building on Trophy Club Drive that used to house Premier Academy has sat quiet for months. No cars in the lot most afternoons, no sign out front, no line of parents idling before pickup. For a while it looked like just another empty commercial building waiting for a tenant.
It isn't waiting for a tenant. The Town of Trophy Club is in the process of buying it, and what happens next says more about how this town grows than any new subdivision would.
Three Projects, One Pattern
Look at what Trophy Club has actually built or renovated over the last two years and a pattern shows up that's easy to miss if you only see one project at a time. The town isn't annexing new land for parks. It's finding new uses for space it already owns, or space someone else already built.
| Project | What Got Reused | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Harmony Park pickleball courts | Two bocce courts and a basketball court relocated within the existing 13-acre park | Opened Nov. 4, 2025 |
| Community Pool Complex renovation | Same footprint at 500 Parkview Drive, reworked rather than expanded | Reopened in time for Memorial Day weekend 2026 |
| New indoor recreation facility | Former Premier Academy building on Trophy Club Drive | Purchase underway; ~$225,000 of the town's ~$2.2 million budget earmarked for refurbishment |
Three separate town projects, three separate budget lines, three separate Town Council votes. Same underlying move each time: work with what's already standing.
The Pickleball Courts Didn't Need New Land
Harmony Park is a 13-acre multi-use park at the end of Indian Creek Drive, and it already had two tennis courts, two bocce courts, a basketball court, ten soccer fields and a playground before anyone talked about pickleball. When demand for dedicated pickleball courts grew, the town didn't look for an adjacent lot. It picked Harmony Park over two other sites on Aug. 12, 2024, then approved a construction contract not to exceed $1.12 million at its Jan. 13, 2025 meeting.
Building six new courts inside a park that was already full meant something had to move. The project relocated the two existing bocce ball courts and the basketball court to make room, according to the town's design partner, McAdams. Groundbreaking came Feb. 14, 2025, and the courts opened to the public on Nov. 4, 2025, complete with a paddle rack and QR code challenge system on three of the six courts. During the presentation on the project, Parks and Recreation Director Chase Ellis cited growing demand for pickleball facilities as the driver, not a shortage of park acreage.
The Pool Renovation Followed The Same Math
The Community Pool Complex sits at 500 Parkview Drive, and it's the same address it's always been. When the town decided the pool needed work, Council weighed two renovation options and picked Option 2, which added a kiddie play structure, an in-pool lounge shelf, expanded sun decks and new shade pavilions while eliminating the previously anticipated waterslide complex in order to remain within project budget. The town broke ground with contractor Fain Group on Sept. 22, 2025, and welcomed residents back to the newly renovated Community Pool Complex just in time for Memorial Day weekend in 2026.
No new pool on a new lot. The same pool, doing more.
The Next Rec Center Used To Be A Daycare
This is where the pattern gets easiest to see. The former Premier Academy building on Trophy Club Drive was a licensed childcare center until recently. Now the town has the former Premier Academy facility as a future Parks & Recreation programming and activity space, describing it as more than a building purchase and as a strategic investment in expanded recreation opportunities for residents.
The numbers give some sense of scale. The town has approximately $2.2 million available today to both purchase the building and make renovations prior to opening to the public, with an estimated refurbishment investment of approximately $225,000. Once open, the facility is expected to provide nearly twice the square footage currently available at the current MUD Annex Building, the space Parks and Recreation programming has been squeezed into up to now. The town's own estimate is that the building can accommodate programming for more than 100 children simultaneously.
Every dollar of that plan goes toward repurposing a structure that already exists, not pouring a new foundation.
Even The Rules Are Catching Up, Not Expanding Outward
The same logic shows up off the parks calendar entirely. Construction on the Bobcat Boulevard roundabout began July 20, 2026, with the stated goal of managing traffic that's already there rather than adding new capacity, and it's expected to run through early 2027.
In February 2026, the town adopted an ordinance overhauling how it regulates e-bikes, scooters and golf carts, the vehicles residents were already using around the neighborhoods before the rules caught up to them. The update repeals the old scooter-specific code section and replaces it with a broader Micromobility Devices article covering electric bicycles, motor-assisted scooters, pocket bikes, hoverboards and similar devices, while keeping gas-powered versions off limits. Kids under 14 now need a helmet on a micromobility device, and anyone 14 or younger riding in a motorized cart needs a seatbelt.
"Trophy Club is a community where families are active outdoors, and golf carts are a common mode of transportation in our neighborhoods," said Mayor Jeannette Tiffany. "These updates ensure that both micromobility users and golf cart passengers, especially children, are protected with clear, consistent safety standards."
Police Chief Patrick Arata framed the seatbelt requirement the same way, calling it "a common-sense step that helps prevent serious injuries" for a form of transport that was already common before the ordinance existed.
What This Means If You Already Live Here
None of this means Trophy Club has stopped investing in recreation. It means the shape of that investment has changed. If you're waiting to see a brand new park appear on some undeveloped lot near your subdivision, that's probably not how the next amenity shows up. It's more likely to look like what happened at Harmony Park and Trophy Club Drive: an existing building or an existing 13 acres asked to do more than it did five years ago.
That's worth knowing if you've lived here long enough to remember when Harmony Park was mostly soccer fields, or when the pool complex looked the way it did before 2025. The town is running out of open parcels to build new facilities on, so growth here looks like renovation, relocation and reuse rather than expansion. Watch the Town Weekly newsletter and the Parks & Recreation Board agendas for the next building the town eyes for a second life. Based on the last two years, there's a good chance it's already standing somewhere in town, just waiting for someone to notice it's empty.
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