SOUTHLAKE—Granite Properties recently announced that it's bringing a big project to Southlake. The Plano-based firm will develop a seven-story, 160,733-square-foot office building adjacent to Southlake Town Square (SLTS). GlobeSt.com's Anna Caplan recently caught up with Granite's director of development/construction, David Cunningham, who has been working with the city of Southlake for a number of years to bring the project to fruition.

GlobeSt.com: How did Granite's involvement with the project come about?

Cunningham: We have targeted a Southlake presence for over 10 years, and have always preferred to be co-located in the Southlake Town Square because of its rich amenity base. SLTS is the heart of activity for this area, and we have talked with Cooper & Stebbins many times over the years about being the class A office partner in Town Square. The recession and the massive Highway 114 road construction project which started in 2009 shut Southlake off for five years, so we are just now back to where we were in 2007 when we were last working on this project.