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This Monday AT&T officials have announced that the telecommunications company will be relocating its headquarters from Dallas – where the company has been based since 2008 – to Plano, Texas.
AT&T plans to move its global headquarters from Dallas to Plano over the next three years. The company plans to build a 54-acre campus at 5400 Legacy Drive, off of the Legacy West shopping and food district and The Shops at Legacy.
The decision comes after months of specular and a year of deliberation, according to company CEO and President, John Stankey. Stankey stated that the new campus would provide requisite space to “cost effectively consolidate all Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex administrative space, including our three largest locations in Central Dallas, Plano, and Irving, and create a corporate campus designed for collaboration, innovation, and engagement”, said Stankey.
Stankey also stated that investment in “our employee experience” and modernization of the company’s workforce drove the decision.
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson had this to say of the company’s move:
“Our city’s unique economic strengths are what attracted AT&T to our urban core in 2008, and Dallas has become a global economic powerhouse since then,” said Johnson.
“But as we worked to retain AT&T, it became clear that its current leaders preferred a large horizontal, suburban-style campus rather than the skyscrapers that define our city center.”
Dallas City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert also weighed in on the company’s move:
“Ultimately, this was a decision that came down to AT&T’s desire for a new horizontal location with significant acreage for development. AT&T’s transition will be gradual, and the company will remain part of our city’s fabric in the year’s ahead”.
AT&T plans to relocate its headquarters to Plano by the second half of 2028.