The commercial boom that has come through Providence Village has continued, and the town’s officials are taking steps to accommodate the growth in the area.
Infrastructure and residential development are taking place as new businesses enter Providence Village, creating a bright future for the developing city.
“It’s a symbiotic relationship,” said Becky Ross, Providence Village planning and community development manager. “Commercial [businesses] don’t want to build until there are enough residents, and residents may want to move unless there are [businesses] that they can get, so it’s a bit of a balancing act. Residential has been winning that for a while, and it's starting to even out.”
Over the last half-decade, the population of Providence Village has more than doubled, and as a result, multiple new businesses have been moving into the area, with one of the largest new commercial businesses being Sprouts Farmers Market, which opened its doors in September of 2025.
“It has done phenomenal business here,” Ross said. “The combination of Aldi and Sprouts has been a great way of letting the families in Providence Village know that we want them to have healthy food options right around the corner, and they’ve certainly taken advantage of it.”
The community is also seeing a host of other food options move into the area, including Auntie Anne’s, Jamba Juice, Foxtail Coffee and Black Rock Coffee.
'There are somewhere between 18 and 20 active commercial projects right now,” Ross said. “I’ve been doing this a long time, and the most commercial projects I’ve ever had in a year were eight, and we have at least 18 right now.”
Along with the food options, multiple nonfood options—Valvoline, Quick Quack Car Wash, Bright Montessori Academy, a veterinarian’s office called City Vet and Ivy Kids Early Learning Center—have moved in as well.
In conjunction with the commercial development, there have also been changes happening residentially, which town officials hope will encourage more families to stay in Providence Village long term.
“We had a very specific single-family home type for a very long time, and what we saw is that people would come in, get involved in the community, get a promotion at work and then move to a bigger house in another city,” Town Manager Brian Roberson said. “We've always wanted to have multiple housing types that people could move into, raise their kids and retire here and not have to leave.”
Some of the changes include townhomes in Providence Commons, larger single- family homes in Chatham Reserve and new amenities including green spaces and community gathering areas.
Ross highlighted Providence Square, which is under construction, as an example of a new community gathering area.
“It will have a gazebo that overlooks the water, and then we will have some open space on the other side, and it’ll have a nice walkable area with the lake in the center,” she said. “Eventually, our ducks will find it, and it’ll be a nice scenic location with a good mix of retail, restaurants and schools.”
Roberson spotlighted the addition of new public schools in the area as well, including Aubrey ISD’s Owens Middle School and Denton ISD’s Dorothy Martinez Elementary, both of which opened in 2025, and the construction of Aubrey ISD’s Elementary No. 5 and Denton ISD’s Mia Price High School.
As the number of commercial buildings, homes, schools and people increases, so too does the need for improvements to the city’s infrastructure to support them.
“There are so many things that go on behind the scenes and sometimes literally underground and most people driving by have no idea how much work goes into things like drainage,” Ross said. “It’s a huge deal.”
One major infrastructural improvement is the expansion of the Tom Harpool Regional Water Treatment Plant on Fishtrap Road.
“They got a permit a few weeks ago, allowing them to store water at the new lake,” Roberson said. “… Hopefully, the timing works out to where we’ll have a solid, reliable source of water that we can use on a daily basis.”
Roberson added that the regional lift station is building a pipeline that will manage and return wastewater back to the Harpool Plant for treatment.
The improvements include the city’s roads as well, with plans to expand FM 2931, FM 1385 and U.S. 377.
“Those are the big projects that we hope to see funded in the next legislative session,” Roberson said. “We worked with all the different cities touching those roads, and several months ago we made resolutions that all those cities adopted and shared support for those roads.”
City officials have also partnered with Denton County and the town of Cross Roads to update the intersections of Fishtrap Road.
“It’s a joint plan because it passes through all of our jurisdictions at different points,” Roberson said. “… The FM 424 intersection can be messy, and the Dr. Sanders [Road] intersection could be better. We don’t know when that’s going to start, but we’re in the planning stages.”
Despite all the changes to Providence Village, Ross emphasized that the city plans address as many needs as possible.
“We have some good residential and commercial development partnerships that are working towards the goal, and the amount of interest in the town is never ending,' she said. “… We just want our residents to know that some of the things they want we want them, too, and we’re doing what we can to make them happen.”
