{"id":468243,"date":"2026-10-16T22:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/468243\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T22:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:28:30","slug":"att-headquarters-construction-in-plano-to-start-in-december-plano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/468243\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T headquarters construction in Plano to start in December | Plano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Construction for the new AT&amp;T headquarters planned in Plano is estimated to start in December, according to filings with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell<\/p>\n<p>Eleven facilities planned along Legacy Drive will be under construction through 2029, per TDLR filings. Here are details for some of the planned facilities:<\/p>\n<p>Central Utility Plant: 32,000 square-foot utility plant for the campus<\/p>\n<p>Building 1: 249,000 square-foot office space<\/p>\n<p>Building 2: 225,000 square-foot office space<\/p>\n<p>Building 3: 225,000 square-foot office space <\/p>\n<p>Building 4: 679,000 square-foot office space<\/p>\n<p>Building 6: 229,000 square-foot office space <\/p>\n<p>Building 7: 318,000 square-foot office space<\/p>\n<p>Building 8: 215,700 square-foot office lobby and food hall<\/p>\n<p>Garage A: 553,000 square-foot garage<\/p>\n<p>Garage B: nearly 1.1 million  square-foot garage<\/p>\n<p>Garage C: nearly 1.18 million square-foot garage<\/p>\n<p>Total estimated costs for current filings are $1.05 billion. The headquarters is estimated to cost $1.35 billion total, per previous reporting. <\/p>\n<p>The background<\/p>\n<p>Plano&#8217;s planning and zoning commission most recently approved site plan changes for the new headquarters at a meeting <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/plano\/government\/1-35b-at-t-headquarters-moves-forward-in-planning-process\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sept. 21<\/a>. The headquarters is also planned to have a 280-foot antenna structure, which was approved by the commission <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<p>The city approved a $20 million economic incentive for the headquarters <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/plano\/government\/plano-oks-20m-in-economic-incentives-for-new-att-headquarters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Feb. 23<\/a>. AT&amp;T will be required to meet employment benchmarks in exchange for the incentive, per previous reporting. The facility is expected to bring 10,000 jobs to the region by 2039.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Construction for the new AT&amp;T headquarters planned in Plano is estimated to start in December, according to filings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[6861,1494,68465,84709,5592,7195,160,162,161,38985,6969],"class_list":["post-468243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-att","tag-construction","tag-economic-incentive","tag-eds","tag-headquarters","tag-legacy-drive","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-ross-perot","tag-texas-department-of-licensing-and-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468243","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=468243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}