“City by the Lake” With a Regional Shopping Destination
The Colony has about 23 miles of Lewisville Lake shoreline inside its city limits, which is where its “City by the Lake” nickname comes from. The 2020 census counted about 44,500 residents. Along SH-121, Grandscape, a 400-acre development anchored by Nebraska Furniture Mart with tenants like Topgolf and Scheels, has turned the city into a regional retail and entertainment destination.
So our work here has two sides: busy retail, restaurant and entertainment businesses that draw shoppers from across North Texas, and quiet lakeside neighborhoods and HOAs. A1 Security Gate & Intercom serves both.
Retail and Restaurants Near Grandscape
High-traffic retail areas bring crowds, late nights and large parking lots. For stores and restaurants along SH-121 and in the surrounding centers, we design camera coverage around where problems actually happen:
- Entrances and registers for identification and transaction review.
- Stockrooms, back doors and loading where most internal loss happens.
- Parking lots for vehicle incidents, slip-and-fall claims and after-hours activity.
- Bars and patios for incident review in restaurants and entertainment venues.
Staff and storage doors can move to card or phone access control so you never collect keys from departing employees. Most complete commercial doors run about $3,000–$3,500 including professional-grade hardware, installation and programming. Video records on site with phone viewing for owners and managers.
Commercial camera installation
Lakeside Neighborhoods and HOAs
For neighborhoods along the shoreline, we install and service community entry gates, cellular or app-based call boxes, and access control on pools, clubhouses and trail gates. Boards manage residents from a web portal instead of reprogramming codes.
Entertainment and Event Traffic
Entertainment venues and event spaces near Grandscape see crowds that peak in the evening and on weekends. For those businesses, we focus on entrances and queues, cash and bar areas, emergency exits and parking, and we set up multiple user roles so managers, security staff and owners see what they need. Exit doors on access control still allow free egress, which matters even more when a building is full.
Homes
For homeowners in The Colony, we install wired video doorbells, cameras on driveways, side yards and back patios, and driveway gate operators, with local recording and no monthly fee per camera for core features. For lake-view homes, we choose outdoor-rated cameras and test night views over open water, where glare and darkness can trick cheaper cameras.
Permits
The Colony requires alarm permits for monitored and audible alarm systems, with separate residential and business fees, and sets its own rules for gates and access-controlled exits. We confirm current requirements before installation. See our permits guide.
Properties We Secure in The Colony
Retail & Entertainment
Entrance, register, stockroom and parking cameras.
Restaurants & Bars
Patio, bar and back-door coverage with phone viewing.
Lakeside HOAs
Entry gates, call boxes and amenity access.
Homes
Doorbells, cameras and driveway gates.
Working With A1 in The Colony
- Site walk, scheduled around business hours for retail and restaurants.
- Written estimate listing each camera, door and gate.
- Installation with minimal disruption to customers.
- Training for managers and owners on the app.
- Support with a 1-year parts and labor warranty, $180 service visits and 24/7 emergency service.
Why The Colony Chooses A1
- Experience with high-traffic retail and restaurant sites.
- Texas DPS Private Security license B31188501, insured.
- Gates, cameras, access control and intercoms from one team.
- Local recording and multi-location viewing.
- We take over systems other companies installed.