{"id":445562,"date":"2026-09-23T22:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T22:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445562\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T22:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T22:02:09","slug":"1-35b-att-headquarters-moves-forward-in-planning-process-plano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445562\/","title":{"rendered":"$1.35B AT&#038;T headquarters moves forward in planning process | Plano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plano&#8217;s planning and zoning commission approved site plan changes related to drainage at the site for the incoming $1.35 billion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.att.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">AT&amp;T<\/a> headquarters at a meeting Sept. 21.<\/p>\n<p>The gist<\/p>\n<p>Senior Planner John Kim said the plans now call for box culverts instead of a detention pond, which is why the changes needed approval from the commission.<\/p>\n<p>Kim said other smaller changes include adding sports courts and pedestrian pathways. The motion also approved an official street name for a pathway planned to lead into the site from Legacy Drive, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plano.gov\/planning-zoning-commission-agendas#docaccess-ca7d774a3e42b8406d1ea35fcc0288bf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">city documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The background<\/p>\n<p>City officials approved a $20 million economic incentive for AT&amp;T to move its headquarters to Plano at a council meeting <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/plano\/government\/plano-oks-20m-in-economic-incentives-for-new-att-headquarters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Feb. 24<\/a>. The move is expected to bring 10,000 jobs to the region by 2039, per previous reporting.<\/p>\n<p>The planning and zoning commission approved a 280-foot antenna structure to be constructed at the site at a meeting <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/plano\/government\/plano-commission-approves-antenna-structure-site-plan-for-att-headquarters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">May 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plano&#8217;s planning and zoning commission approved site plan changes related to drainage at the site for the incoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[49457,7195,141095,34428,160,117762,153782,162,161],"class_list":["post-445562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-att-headquarters","tag-legacy-drive","tag-parkwood-boulevard","tag-planning-and-zoning-commission","tag-plano","tag-plano-businesses","tag-plano-economic-incentive","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445562","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=445562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}