For years the shorthand for a Colleyville Friday night was a drive somewhere else. Southlake Town Square for dinner. Grapevine Main Street for a walk. The town itself was where you slept, not where you gathered.

This summer that changed at two specific addresses. One is the block behind City Hall, where a $6 million park opened at the end of June. The other is a single strip-center parcel on Colleyville Boulevard that has quietly become the densest food-and-drink stop inside city limits. If you already live here, the interesting question is no longer where to go for the evening. It is which of these two poles you point the car toward.

The block behind City Hall is doing real work now

The old Heroes Park was a modest memorial off Piazza Lane. The new one, unveiled June 26 during Stars and Guitars, is a different kind of civic asset.