mixed-use development

Wilks Development Partners with Frisco EDC on Firefly Park Development

by | Apr 25, 2024
Firefly Park is slated to feature 3 million square feet of Class A office space, 400,000 square feet of upscale retail, dining, and entertainment, along with 1,200 hotel rooms, 230 townhomes, 1,970 mid-rise and high-rise residential units, plus many other "world-class" amenities.
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Lincoln Plans One of Most Significant Dallas Mixed-Use Projects ‘Since The Crescent’ in Uptown Dallas
by | Mar 27, 2024
Lincoln Property Company is poised to launch a landmark development in the heart of Uptown Dallas. The four-acre project will merge premier office space, luxury living, high-end retail, a five-star hotel, and green space.
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Huge Knox Street Mixed-Use Project Gets Construction Start in Dallas
by | Dec 6, 2023
The high-rise Knox Street project sits on a four-acre site adjacent to the Katy Trail and Highland Park. Once completed, it will feature a luxury hotel and condominiums, a 27-story multifamily building, nine floors of offices above two stories of retail and restaurants, and a half-acre park connected to the Katy Trail.
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McKinney’s Historic Cotton Mill District Slated for Mixed-Use Development
by | Nov 29, 2023
Texas-based multifamily investment firm Presidium plans to make McKinney's 113-year-old Cotton Mill part of the city's future—with 1,200 apartments and 200,000 square feet of office and retail.
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Historic Cedars Corner Building in Dallas Gets New Life–and Becomes Home to These Black- and Women-Owned Businesses

by | Apr 3, 2023
In 1923, the building was home to the Newland Hotel and a Piggly Wiggly grocery story in The Cedars neighborhood directly south of downtown Dallas. Now known as Cedars Corner, its first floor is an incubator of sorts for a distinctive collection of Black and women-owned businesses committed to bringing life back to the historic space. Meet the owners and see what they're cooking up.
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Grand Prairie Entertainment Corridor Attracts Bass Pro Shops, BigShots Golf, and More
by | Dec 21, 2022
The EpicCentral Corridor in Grand Prairie includes new mixed-use development Mayfield Groves, which has landed three anchors to add to the city's entertainment district.

City Manager Steve Dye said the city welcomes the new businesses "as we continue to selectively build out our EpicCentral corridor along State Highway 161.”
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Frisco’s New Firefly Park Development Gets Dream Hotel As Anchor
by | May 25, 2022
Slated to break ground next year, Firefly Park will add "a significantly different, cool vibe to Frisco," says the city's mayor. Developer Kyle Wilks of Wilks Development hired Amsterdam-based UNStudio to develop the master plan in collaboration with Sasaki Associates.

That European influence is showing up in the 230-acre project's walkable, park-laden layout—and in the architecture's future-forward look. The Dream Hotel will be designed with hints of the region, with a design philosophy “both surreal and contemporarily chic."
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Extreme Sandbox in Sachse Lets You ‘Play with a 26-Ton Excavator for Fun’
by | Jul 27, 2020
The heavy-equipment entertainment company featured on Shark Tank is moving its only Texas site to The Station in Sachse in September. Here's a look at what you can expect.
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Monarch City Ready to Take Mixed-Use Development Into the Next Century

by | Oct 22, 2019
Howard Hughes' massive 261-acre project in Allen is rising from what used to be grasslands. And, much like its namesake butterfly, soaring growth could drive the area's economy for decades to come.
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ThriftBooks’ Dallas Used Book Fulfillment Center to Become Its Largest in the Country
by | Jul 16, 2019
By tripling the facility’s size and adding new automation tech, ThriftBooks says it will be able to process 50 million books a year in Dallas.
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CityLine: A Development That’s Built to Last
by | Jan 1, 2016

With CityLine, KDC and its design and construction partners aren’t just developing a
master-planned community for today—they’re keeping tomorrow very much in mind. That means a commitment to sustainability....

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CityLine: A Multifamily Home Run
by | Jan 1, 2016

Thousands of workers will converge upon CityLine when State Farm and Raytheon move into their new office buildings in 2015. Some will have just a short walk to work, with residential options conveniently located on site....

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CityLine Plaza: The focal point of the initial phase will be CityLine Plaza, a centrally located urban plaza designed by the Office of James Burnett, the landscape architect of Dallas’ Klyde Warren Park. The natural looking landscaped plaza will offer open space for outdoor concerts and festivals, shaded gathering spots for meetings or meals and walkways for pedestrian experiences.

CityLine: A Place to Walk About

by | Jan 1, 2016

Most cities grow in random fashion, evolving bit by bit over time. Imagine having the opportunity to design a community for more than 16,000 people—from scratch. That’s exactly what a collaborative team of designers have had the opportunity to do with CityLine. They’ve been able to consider pedestrian traffic flow and how the different components should best interact....

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State Farm at CityLine: Kind of a Big Deal
by | Jan 1, 2016

In April of 2012, execs from State Farm got in touch with their longtime North Texas real estate brokers, Randy Cooper and Craig Wilson of Cassidy Turley, to talk about a top-secret expansion the company was considering....

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CityLine: Building a City Within a City
by | Jan 1, 2016

It’s hard to appreciate of the size and scope of CityLine without a little perspective. Consider that in 1940, a century after Richardson was first settled, the small town was home to just 740 people....

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