Dallas Developers: Go Mixed-Use in 2019 or Go Home As Dallas Adds Thousands of New Residents Develo
When Dallas developer Craig Hall acquired a big parcel of land off a deeply rutted dirt road in Frisco in the late 1980s, he envisioned a place where he could build an upscale office park. Today, it's the fastest-growing city in the country -- and a symbol of the transformation of North Texas. StartFragment But at the time, not many people even bothered showing up to Hall's grand opening affair of the new park. Frisco, which only had about 6,000 residents at the time, was one
JPMorgan Chase files plans to extend Legacy West campus
About a year after wrapping up the first phase of its 1 million-square-foot regional office project at Legacy West, JPMorgan Chase & Co. plans to expand its campus. According to a report from the Dallas Morning News, JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) filed preliminary plans for the hub's second phase with Plano's planning and zoning department. Show Full Story The latest plans for the site propose a 7-story, 1,900-space parking garage, the Morning News reported. The current campus i
Frisco's tallest new tower tops out construction
Construction has topped out on Frisco's tallest new building. The 25-story SkyHouse Frisco Station apartment tower is being built on the west side of the Dallas North Tollway north of Warren Parkway. The 332-unit, luxury rental community will open in September 2019. It's a project of Novare Group, Batson-Cook Development Co. and Stockbridge Capital Group and started construction in February. Show Full Story The high-rise is part of the $1.5 billion Frisco Station mixed-use d
Apple is spending $1 billion on a new campus in Austin
New Delhi (CNN Business)Apple is putting more detail on its plan to create 20,000 jobs in the United States over the next five years. StartFragment The company said Thursday it will spend $1 billion to build a new campus in Austin, Texas. The city is already home to one Apple (AAPL) campus, a sprawling facility with 6,200 employees that is the company's largest outside its headquarters in Cupertino, California. [if lte IE 9]><![endif] StartFragment Apple's new Austin campus w
Amazon taps Fort Worth's Alliance Airport for regional hub, hundreds of jobs
Amazon will open a regional air hub at the Fort Worth Alliance Airport, creating hundreds of new jobs with the first airport project of its kind in the Amazon Air network, the company announced Tuesday. The new facility will be tailored specifically to Amazon Air’s larger-scale regional needs. Unlike other gateways and facilities within Amazon Air’s network, the regional air hub will include sortation capabilities and infrastructure to handle multiple flights daily, the Seatt
Dallas Suburb Looks to Strike Again While the Headquarters Iron Is Hot After Landing PGA Headquarte
With PGA of America planning to bring its corporate headquarters to Frisco, Texas, one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States, officials and real estate developers are gearing up to transform the Texas community into yet another magnet for corporations. The team behind the public-private partnership key in wooing PGA is hoping that a proposed 2,500-acre master-planned, mixed-use development called Fields – in a city that had been pitched unsuccessfully as a possib
PGA of America to Relocate Headquarters to Dallas Suburb From Florida Plans Include Two Championship
PGA of America, a sports organization with about 29,000 golf professionals, plans to relocate its headquarters from Florida to a proposed 600-acre development in the Dallas suburb of Frisco, Texas . The move follows approval Tuesday of a public-private partnership with the city of Frisco, land owner Hunt Realty Investments and other stakeholders. The proposed relocation, rumors of which began appearing in golf publications in March, is the culmination of a year-and-a-half rea
PGA of America HQ to anchor 600-acre mixed-use development in Frisco
It's official: The PGA of America will relocate from its longtime home in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., to Frisco, after a vote from Frisco City Council today approved a massive real estate and golf development. The golf professionals organization has agreed to move its headquarters as part of a public-private partnership with the City of Frisco, according to a release from the PGA of America. As part of the move, the organization will anchor a 600-acre mixed-used development amo
UPDATED: PGA of America could move headquarters to Fields property in Frisco
Updated 9:20 a.m., Dec. 3 Frisco will vote to bring the Professional Golfers’ Association of America headquarters to North Texas, according to meeting agendas for Dec. 4. “The PGA of America is pursuing an agreement for a transformational headquarters in Frisco,” a PGA spokesperson said in an email. “Until the process is complete, we will have no further comment.” The Karahan Companies President Fehmi Karahan confirmed in an email that the PGA is considering moving to the Fie
PGA of America to relocate national headquarters to Frisco, sources say
The PGA of America's move from West Palm Beach means major championship golf will return to North Texas for the first time in more than 50 years. FRISCO, Texas - The PGA of America will relocate its national headquarters to Frisco, with the deal for the move becoming official next week, sources tell WFAA Sports. The move also means major championship golf will return to North Texas for the first time in more than 50 years. A vote to approve the public/private partnership wil
