The latest version of Entrada, a $500 million mixed-use development planned in Westlake, includes a lake with stores on one shore creating a "retail harbor," and vineyards used as landscaping along Hwy. 114.

The 85-acre development at FM 1938 and Solana Boulevard near Solana Business Park received zoning and preliminary plat approvals from the Town Council Monday night, when a revamped plan was presented. The development no longer includes apartments, which drew residents to meetings to protest earlier this year. Instead, the several hundred residences in Entrada will include villas.

Developer Jeffory Blackard of McKinney showed the council basic renderings of the development Monday, along with slides of villages in Spain reflecting the architecture he plans to replicate.

The concept is similar to Blackard's Adriatica in McKinney, a mixed-use development that replicates parts of a Croatian village. His aim is to create a community feel by mixing homes with retail in a pedestrian-oriented village environment.

Besides residential and retail, Entrada is to include hotels, possibly an independent living center, chapels, a cathedral and a central plaza.

Blackard is partnering with developer and property owner Mehrdad Moayedi of Carrollton on Entrada. Both men, together and separately, have developed North Texas subdivisions involving thousands of homes over the years.