AT&T announced Monday that it’s officially moving its global headquarters from Downtown Dallas to Plano in the next three years. <\/p>\n
AT&T President and CEO John Stankey said the decision came after a year of deliberation and was made to invest in the company’s employee experience. <\/p>\n
The new headquarters is planned to be built at 5400 Legacy Drive, which would be in proximity to Plano’s popular shopping and food district, Legacy West. <\/p>\n
Stankey said the new headquarters will span across 54 acres of land and the location provides “the necessary room 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.”<\/p>\n
AT&T’s headquarters had been in Dallas since 2008. Despite the move, the company said it still believes the DFW Metroplex is the right place to continue to thrive. <\/p>\n
Dallas mayor and city manager release statements on the move<\/p>\n
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson and City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert shared statements on AT&T’s decision to move from the city. Both acknowledged the move was a sign that the company needed more space and a reflection of the company’s shift in culture. <\/p>\n
“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,” Johnson said. “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.”<\/p>\n
Johnson went on to highlight some of the city’s recent economic accomplishments, including the incoming new Goldman Sach’s campus and new financial sector.<\/p>\n
Bizor Tolbert echoed Johnson in saying how Dallas has been a great city for businesses and praised the city’s successes. <\/p>\n
“Business leaders have praised our successes in our urban core, which include expanded police presence and our remarkable success relocating people experiencing homelessness. But 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 years ahead,” she said in statement. <\/p>\n
The target date for AT&T’s new space is slated for the second half of 2028, company officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AT&T announced Monday that it’s officially moving its global headquarters from Downtown Dallas to Plano in the next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[49479,102,160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-111409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-atampt","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-plano","11":"tag-plano-headlines","12":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}