Collin County’s explosive growth is impossible to miss \u2014 and Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson isn’t mincing words about what it means for his city.<\/p>\n
“I hope everybody who’s been watching the news this week understands that I wasn’t crying wolf,” Johnson told Dallas City Council Wednesday. “The wolf is not in this room, the wolf is up the tollway.”<\/p>\n
The warning came as two of Dallas’s professional sports teams \u2014 the Stars and the Mavericks \u2014 announced plans to relocate, joining a wave of big businesses already heading north.<\/p>\n
In McKinney, ribbon cuttings have become routine. Former Mayor George Fuller says that’s no accident.<\/p>\n
“We have spent decades preparing this county, this city, this area, this region for the type of growth we’re seeing,” Fuller said at Wednesday’s ceremony. “It’s not about being a wolf, it’s about being prepared.”<\/p>\n
That ceremony marked the opening of Shiloh Place McKinney, a new housing development with support services for single mothers.<\/p>\n
But the competition extends well beyond housing and corporate relocations. Rising off US-75 in McKinney, the Sunset Amphitheater is emerging as one of the most visible symbols of Collin County’s ambitions.<\/p>\n
At 20,000 seats, it rivals the size of the American Airlines Center in downtown Dallas, built specifically for live music.<\/p>\n
Supporters say it’s exactly this kind of investment that’s drawing people away from Dallas and into Collin County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collin County’s explosive growth is impossible to miss \u2014 and Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson isn’t mincing words about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[960,102,105,104,103,109,4376,115721,115722],"class_list":["post-323635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-collin-county","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-city-council","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-downtown-dallas","tag-eric-johnson","tag-george-fuller","tag-professional-sports-teams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323635","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=323635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}