A local district judge ruled the annexations in violation of state law, and the properties returned under Westlake jurisdiction.

[6] In 2000, the radio program This American Life featured a story about the battle to disband the town in the face of development by Ross Perot, Jr.

[12] The Town of Westlake has quickly established itself as a Financial Service Industry Cluster within the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

The Plaza at Solana, built in the 1980s and designed by famous architect Ricardo Legorreta, was the first of its kind for the DFW Metroplex.

At its inception, the Solana Business Park housed the IBM Corporation with more than 1,000,000 square feet of office space.

Today, The Plaza at Solana contains a variety of over 30 businesses and a few restaurants that brings in a daytime population of over 3,000 employees.

Currently, the Westlake Town Hall and municipal court is located in the Solana Terrace portion of the business park.

In January 2017, a fast-growing agency and franchise announced plans to relocate its corporate headquarters from Irving, TX to the Solana business park in Westlake.

The company signed a lease for 62,000 square foot in office space at Solana, which recently completed a $70 million renovation.

By reinvesting and amenitizing the Solana Terrace space for the multi-tenant complex, Glenstar managed to improve occupancy rates from 45% to 75% in three years.

[14] In November 2021, Boston based Albany Road/TXRE properties bought the Solana Plaza office and retail buildings.

Fidelity Investments is a 1,129,853 square foot facility consisting of two buildings nestled behind a dense landscape of trees.

Entrada is a mixed-use project in the Town that runs along Highway 114 East meant to emulate a village in Catalonia.

The Schwab project includes a $315 million, 1,160,000 square-foot regional campus in Westlake that ultimately will bring 5,000 jobs to the North Texas within 10 years.

The Schwab campus will be on the Westlake-Roanoke border, just north of JT Ottinger Road and west of Turner Lake.