{"id":357765,"date":"2026-07-01T21:02:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357765\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T21:02:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:02:30","slug":"plano-officials-greenlight-dallas-stars-arena-at-willow-bend-plano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357765\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano officials greenlight Dallas Stars arena at Willow Bend | Plano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The arena may be used for other indoor sports, entertainment, cultural and civic events, per <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/dallas-fort-worth\/plano\/development\/2026\/06\/02\/plano-officials-to-consider-dallas-stars-arena-at-the-shops-at-willow-bend\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previous reporting<\/a>. The city and DSE are also collaborating to add new public transportation options for the venue and to add future initiatives for youth sports education, small business engagement and other community-focused efforts in Plano.<\/p>\n<p>The incentive agreement with Centennial will help cover costs of demolition of the \u201cinline space of the mall, theater, Dillard\u2019s and The Crayola Experience,\u201d according to city documents. It will also help develop a new 6,500-square-foot visitor\u2019s center.<\/p>\n<p>The demolition is expected to cost $25.3 million, with Equinox, Crate &amp; Barrel, the Neiman Marcus building, the mall\u2019s 65,000-square-foot restaurant district and parking structures to remain, Plano Economic Director Michael Talley said.<\/p>\n<p>Demolition of the mall is expected to begin in early 2027, Talley said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The arena may be used for other indoor sports, entertainment, cultural and civic events, per previous reporting. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[19044,1115,160,18650,162,161,117399,2486,28744,117398,86424,84652],"class_list":["post-357765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-city-of-plano","tag-dallas-stars","tag-plano","tag-plano-city-council","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-plano-tirz-6","tag-stars","tag-the-shops-at-willow-bend","tag-tirz-plano","tag-willow-bend-mall","tag-willowbend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357765","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=357765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}