{"id":3776,"date":"2025-10-14T23:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3776\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:13:08","slug":"retail-space-in-planos-coit-marketplace-expanded-following-council-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3776\/","title":{"rendered":"Retail space in Plano\u2019s Coit Marketplace expanded following council decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tCoit Marketplace is set to add more retail space following approval of a rezoning request.<\/p>\n

The details<\/p>\n

Plano City Council voted 7-1 to approve the request at an Oct. 13 meeting<\/a>, with Mayor Pro Tem Maria Tu voting against the request.<\/p>\n

The decision came after the Planning and Zoning Commission split<\/a> 3-3 on motions both to approve and deny the request at its Sept. 15 meeting, resulting in no recommendation to council.<\/p>\n

The request rezones 4.5 acres on the western side of Coit Marketplace<\/a> from regional employment to regional commercial, allowing additional retail uses.<\/p>\n

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City staff recommended denying the request, citing concerns that adding new retail space could worsen the city\u2019s existing oversupply of retail space.<\/p>\n

The developer previously sought the same zoning change in 2021, but commissioners denied that request, according to city documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some context<\/p>\n

Planning Director Christina Day said staff aim to prioritize redevelopment of older shopping centers rather than creating new retail sites that could later decline.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve tried to avoid adding additional retail development in the city,\u201d Day said. \u201cWe\u2019re continuing to have to reinvest public funds in retail corners today. … It\u2019s new today, but it won\u2019t be new tomorrow, so we\u2019re just adding to that volume, and that\u2019s the long-term concern.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plano officials launched the city\u2019s retail revitalization grant program<\/a> last year, which supports reinvesting in and upgrading existing retail properties across the city.<\/p>\n

What they\u2019re saying<\/p>\n

Jackie Wolpert, a representative for applicant United Commercial Development, said the zoning change is needed to lease a vacant building on the site.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a building that\u2019s almost completely ready to be delivered to tenants, and we don\u2019t have a lease signed yet,\u201d Wolpert said. \u201cTenants that are interested in this … fall under the regional commercial zoning, not under the regional employment zoning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Council member Rick Horne said the zoning change will not add to Plano\u2019s excess retail space, as Coit Marketplace has enough demand to support additional tenants and drive growth.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re meeting a need for the surrounding neighborhood,” Horne said. \u201cWho are we to restrict that demand if it\u2019s there?\u201d<\/p>\n

One more thing<\/p>\n

The city received several responses to the zoning request, with three nearby homeowners opposing the request, according to city documents<\/a>.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coit Marketplace is set to add more retail space following approval of a rezoning request. The details Plano…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[4221,4215,4216,4217,712,713,4219,4218,160,4222,162,4220,161],"class_list":["post-3776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-business-news-plano","tag-coit-marketplace","tag-coit-road","tag-coit-shopping-center","tag-dallas-fort-worth","tag-downtown-plano","tag-kroger-coit-marketplace","tag-kroger-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-development","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-jobs","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776","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=3776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}