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Top Texas barbecue smokehouse closes one of its 2 locations
A food-and-beverage business succumbing to financial stress is a story all too common lately. Such is the case with one of the top barbecue entities in Texas, which announced this weekend that part of its brand was going away for good. Emily and Nolan Belcher of B4 Barbeque, a Texas...
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Sprouts Farmers Market Plants $4.9 Million Store on Anna's Booming U.S. 75 Strip
A new Sprouts Farmers Market is headed for the intersection of U.S. Highway 75 and Rosamond Drive in Anna, with construction on the $4.94 million grocery project slated to begin December 7. The store is expected to cover more than 23,000 square feet once finished, part of a wave of retail development reshaping the fast-growing Collin County city.
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AT&T Prepares For Next Step In $1.35 Billion Plano Headquarters Project
A new chapter is taking shape at one of Plano's most recognizable former corporate campuses. AT&T will host a private event Nov. 12, marking an early milestone in the development of its future global headquarters along Legacy Drive. The event will include remarks from AT&T Chairman and CEO John Stankey and local leaders, the installation of the campus's first fiber connection and an initial look at designs for the planned headquarters. The gathering comes nearly three months after the demolition of the former Electronic Data Systems headquarters.The building came down in a controlled implosion on Aug. 9, clearing the way for AT&T's $1.35 billion redevelopment project. The Future AT&T Global Headquarters AT&T announced in January that it had selected the property at 5400 Legacy Drive for its new global headquarters. The approximately 2-million-square-foot former EDS campus was vacant for about seven years before plans for its next chapter emerged. The project is expected to bring roughly 10,000 employees to Plano as AT&T consolidates administrative operations currently spread across Dallas, Plano and Irving. Once complete, the Legacy Drive property will become the company's primary headquarters. The move also marks a return to a centralized headquarters campus for a company whose operations
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Host Hotels & Resorts Acquires 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge & Renaissance Dallas at Plano Legacy West
BETHESDA, MD.—Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc., the nation’s largest lodging real estate investment trust, announced that it has acquired the leasehold interest in the 195-room 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge (the “1 Hotel”) for $202 million in cash. The property has 83 years remaining on the ground lease with a government nonprofit lessor. The 1 Hotel acquisition price represents a 10.2x EBITDA multiple or a cap rate of approximately 8.2 percent on the property’s 2026 estimated results. The company has also acquired the fee simple interest in the 308-room Renaissance Dallas at Plano Legacy West Hotel (the “Renaissance Plano”) for approximately $172 million in cash. The Renaissance Plano acquisition price represents an 11.2x EBITDA multiple or a cap rate of approximately 7.9 percent on the property’s 2026 estimated results.
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Quest Events grows West with new Denver location
Quest Events, Frisco, Texas, a provider of event drape and scenic solutions, has opened a new location in Denver to serve event professionals, production partners, venues, agencies and corporate clients throughout Colorado and the surrounding Rocky Mountain region. “Our expansion into Denver is an exciting opportunity for Quest Events to...
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Red Lobster across from mall with JCPenney and Dillard’s throws in the towel & calls it quits after 24 years
RIGHT across from a popular shopping mall, a longstanding Red Lobster restaurant has turned off its lights. The seafood eatery shut its doors forever over the weekend, alerting foodies with a notice posted on the front door. The Red Lobster restaurant at 3056 Preston Road in Frisco, Texas – a...
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Denton Overhauls Incentive Rules, Trims Policy and Targets Eight Industries
Denton City Council voted 6-0 on Oct. 27 to overhaul the city's Chapter 380 Economic Development Policy, replacing the former categories of projects for council consideration, known as strategic growth areas, with a sharper list of targeted industries and trimming the document itself from 12 pages down to nine. The rewrite touches everything from job thresholds for incoming businesses to brand-new grant programs for retail-façade improvements and site readiness.
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Big carriers keep FMCSA’s crackdown alive, Fuller says
FRISCO, Texas — Small carriers and brokers waiting for Washington to ease up on trucking enforcement should not expect relief from the next administration, FreightWaves founder and CEO Craig Fuller said Nov. 2, because the industry’s largest fleets now want the crackdown. Fuller gave the industry keynote at...
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The Black Rabbit Antique Market Concept Coming to Downtown Frisco
A store selling items from different eras of history is under construction downtown. From a recent permit filing, The Black Rabbit Antique Market is coming to Frisco at 8760 7th Street. This is right in the downtown’s historic Rail District. Right now, an opening date has not been announced.
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Host Hotels Pays $172M for Plano's Renaissance Legacy West Tower
Renaissance Dallas at Plano Legacy West Hotel — Hotel Acquired in $172M Deal. A high-rise hotel at the center of Plano's Legacy West district has new owners. Host Hotels & Resorts announced it acquired the fee simple interest in the Renaissance Dallas at Plano Legacy West Hotel for approximately $172 million in cash, a price tag that caps a three-year ownership run by a private investment group that says it beat its own timeline for selling the property.
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Frisco's Red Lobster on Preston Road Closes
The Red Lobster at 3056 Preston Road in Frisco closed on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2026, with door signage confirming the shutdown. The closure lands just over two years after the seafood chain filed for bankruptcy, and it adds Frisco to a growing list of North Texas communities losing their local Red Lobster.
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Pokeworks Plots Second Frisco Location With $120K Parkway Towne Crossing Revamp
5101 Eldorado Pkwy — Approximate Site of Proposed Second Pokeworks. A second Pokeworks restaurant is headed to Frisco, with state filings pointing to a spot in the Parkway Towne Crossing shopping center at 5101 Eldorado Parkway, Ste. 160. The filings describe a roughly $120,000 renovation project that would convert a 1,269-square-foot retail space into the Hawaiian-inspired poke chain's newest outpost.