West Village proper has 88 retail, restaurant and entertainment tenants within 244,000 square feet (22,700 m2) and contains approximately 3,600 residential units.

[1] It also contains a 240,000 square feet (22,000 m2) office building that previously served as the headquarters of The Richards Group.

[2] West Village, opened in 2001, was built on an undeveloped assembly that was cleared in the 1980s for a large, master-planned urban community to be known as CityPlace.

The name West Village is completely an attempt to link the development to the urban neighborhood in New York City.

The Katy Trail, a noted Dallas running and biking corridor, is within a block of the development.