{"id":280368,"date":"2026-05-05T22:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/280368\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:12:08","slug":"att-to-more-than-double-footprint-with-1-4b-hq-in-dallas-suburb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/280368\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&T To More Than Double Footprint With $1.4B HQ In Dallas Suburb"},"content":{"rendered":"

AT&T\u2019s new $1.35B global headquarters in Plano<\/a> is set to have more than twice the amount of space of its current 1M SF Whitacre Tower building in Downtown Dallas<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n Courtesy of AT&T\n <\/p>\n

\n Rendering of AT&T Plano headquarters campus\n <\/p>\n

The Plano Planning and Zoning Commission approved four items related to the global telecommunications titan\u2019s planned headquarters on Monday. Among those was a preliminary site plan that shows AT&T\u2019s campus will have\u00a02.3M SF of building space, a 280-foot cell tower, a daycare center, parking garages and a pedestrian bridge, The Dallas Morning News reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

AT&T announced plans in January to move<\/a>\u00a0its headquarters to the 54-acre campus at 5400 Legacy Drive. It\u00a0is targeting an initial move-in date during the second half of 2028, AT&T CEO John Stankey<\/a> said at the time.<\/p>\n

Other items approved by the commission were two requests to update site boundaries, as AT&T wants to add parts of adjacent lots to the campus. Another item sought a zoning change to \u201cplanned development\u201d for the portion with the tower, as it will have\u00a0an enclosed communications antenna.<\/p>\n

All items were approved unanimously and will next go before the Plano City Council<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Commission member Ben Alali compared AT&T\u2019s planned antenna structure to an iconic part of Dallas\u2019 skyline, calling it a miniature version of Reunion Tower<\/a>. AT&T\u2019s tower will feature the company\u2019s logo in addition to the antenna.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It will be more than 300 feet from nearby residences and won\u2019t be allowed to flash or strobe overnight. The tower also needs to be approved by the Federal Aviation Administration<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stankey called the tower \u201ca foundational part of the campus\u201d\u00a0in a LinkedIn post<\/a>\u00a0last week\u00a0sharing renderings of the company’s new headquarters. He said it will deliver \u201cworld-class cell coverage\u201d to the campus and the surrounding neighborhood.<\/p>\n

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\n Rendering of AT&T’s antenna tower in Plano\n <\/p>\n

The new headquarters campus is expected to help AT&T attract and retain top talent, Stankey said in his post.<\/p>\n

The global telecommunications titan required all office employees to return in person<\/a> five days\u00a0a week at the beginning of last year. The Plano location is expected to offer a shorter commute<\/a> for a majority of AT&T\u2019s personnel, a company spokesperson said in January.\u00a0<\/p>\n

AT&T\u2019s lease at Whitacre Tower in Dallas runs through the end of 2031, the DMN reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Plano officials approved a pair of economic development agreements<\/a> for AT&T in February offering $20M in financial incentives and a 65% property tax rebate for 25 years on improvements made at the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AT&T\u2019s new $1.35B global headquarters in Plano is set to have more than twice the amount of space…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[6861,103385,49867,160,18650,162,161,86302],"class_list":["post-280368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-att","tag-ben-alali","tag-john-stankey","tag-plano","tag-plano-city-council","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-plano-planning-and-zoning-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280368","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=280368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}