PLANO, Texas \u2014 The City of Plano considers itself a headquarters hotspot with more than 500 corporate and regional businesses based there.\u00a0<\/p>\n
City officials say resources and infrastructure attract companies to move into the area.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a good place for them to live and to have a qualified workforce,\u201d said Plano Mayor John Munns.<\/p>\n
He said the city lures companies from all over the world across different industries.<\/p>\n
\u201cCompanies from all over the world, whether it be Japan or Taiwan or Korea or India, though, those companies have some amazing technology and they feel like North Texas is the place to be, to be able to accomplish their success,\u201d says Muns.<\/p>\n
And even some companies within the Dallas-Fort Worth region have moved their headquarters to Plano, like telecommunications giant AT&T, which announced early this year it\u2019s moving from Dallas. The Dallas Stars are also moving their operations to the city.<\/p>\n
But what makes Plano a headquarters hotspot?<\/p>\n
\u201cThe majority of our master plans, thoroughfare plan maps, things like that, we\u2019ve already developed and built a lot of that infrastructure,\u201d said City Director of Engineerning Caleb Thornhill.<\/p>\n
With less than 4% \u2014 about 1,800 acres \u2014 of the city\u2019s land undeveloped, it\u2019s nearly built out.<\/p>\n
Thornhill said they renovate instead of building something new.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we\u2019re looking at now is with the changing and the redevelopment is how do we and modify those systems to accommodate that new development,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
With over 300,000 residents, Plano is the ninth largest city in Texas by population.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur growth, our kind of residential population growth slowed,\u201d said Director of Planning Christina Day.<\/p>\n
As population growth tapered off in the 2000s, Plano saw commercial growth that led to a job growth explosion.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur job growth just continues to explode. So the city has over 275,000 jobs. We\u2019ve reached 300,000 population. And so we\u2019re just continuing to grow where we\u2019re approaching a one-to-one job to housing unit ratio,\u201d explained Day.<\/p>\n
While companies are still flocking to Plano, city officials expect job growth will continue to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLANO, Texas \u2014 The City of Plano considers itself a headquarters hotspot with more than 500 corporate and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[132,910,1570,102,8082,138,9979,223,160,162,161,82,27,1569,835],"class_list":["post-392109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-austin","tag-business","tag-ctv","tag-dallas","tag-dfw-what-you-need-to-know","tag-el-paso","tag-marcine-graham","tag-news","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-texas","tag-texas-what-you-need-to-know","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392109","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=392109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}