{"id":357736,"date":"2026-07-01T20:37:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357736\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:37:38","slug":"stars-align-in-plano-3-billion-nhl-arena-entertainment-district-planned-for-willow-bend-plano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357736\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars align in Plano: $3 billion NHL arena, entertainment district planned for Willow Bend | Plano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The arena will host the Stars home games, practices and camps, along with \u201cother indoor sports, entertainment, cultural and civic events,\u201d according to the letter. Also planned is a surrounding \u201cmixed-use entertainment district,\u201d developed by current property owners Centennial.<\/p>\n<p>The $3 billion development will attempt to create a power play for the mall that some say has been skating on thin ice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at Willow Bend Mall now, it\u2019s basically dead,\u201d council member Rick Horne said. \u201cNow we have this opportunity to bring a top notch sports entity here, and it will continue to make the city vibrant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Council also approved a $15 million economic incentive agreement with Centennial that will assist with demolition of the mall and establish a new <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/dallas-fort-worth\/plano\/government\/2026\/04\/30\/visit-planos-new-tourism-strategy-to-prioritize-family-adventures-cultural-discovery\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visitor\u2019s center<\/a> at the development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The arena will host the Stars home games, practices and camps, along with \u201cother indoor sports, entertainment, cultural&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[49084,1115,2484,160,162,161,124613,48287,86424],"class_list":["post-357736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-american-airlines-arena","tag-dallas-stars","tag-nhl","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-shots-at-willow-bend","tag-willow-bend","tag-willow-bend-mall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357736","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=357736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}