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The Farm in Allen adds new office building to its live-play-work scheme

Very nice office campus planned for Farm at Allen.

Rendering courtesy of Omniplan

There's a new project in the works designed to fulfill Collin County's growing office market demands: Called FarmWorks One, it'll be a three-story office building at The Farm in Allen, the mixed-use project at the southeast corner of Sam Rayburn Tollway and Alma Drive.

A ground-breaking by JaRyCo, an Allen-based developer, took place on August 8; according to a release, it'll be finished in July 2024.

The building will be fortuitously located: across from The Farm’s Central District and walking distance from dining, retail, and entertainment venues including The Hub, which opened last year; the newly opened West Lake Park, which features a 1.5-acre lake; and High 5 and Chicken N Pickle, both coming soon to The Farm’s Central District.

JaRyCo president Bruce Heller says that FarmWorks One adds the office component to The Farm in Allen, which already has residential, restaurant, and entertainment portions, creating "a truly walkable place to live, work, and play" in Collin County.

FarmWorks One includes a number of state-of-the-art features designed for today’s office environment, including:

outdoor ground-level workspace and amenity spaces
balconies on every office floor equipped with electricity and Wi-Fi for outside work
Touchless features, extend from the parking garage to the elevators to the restrooms and tenant suites
Oversized stairs to reduce elevator use and promote exercise
HVAC systems with high-efficiency air filtration and ionization treatment, to promote a healthier environment

Dan Bowman, CEO of Allen Economic Development Corporation, says that creative workspaces like these encourage employees to return to the office, stating that "this building is part of a trend that will help redefine work-life balance for the modern employee.”

At completion, The Farm in Allen is planned to have 1.6 million square feet of office space, 142,000 square feet of retail, a 150-key hotel, 60,000 square feet of restaurants, 112 townhomes, and 2,400 urban residential units. The 135-acre development will also promote nature with a 1.5-acre lake, boardwalk restaurants, more than 2.5 miles of hike and bike trails, a 16-acre greenbelt along Watters Creek, and four additional park areas.

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Grand Prairie expands to the south with new master-planned community

Rendering courtesy of Provident

Goodland Grand Prairie

The City of Grand Prairie is growing fast and expanding to make way for a new master-planned development south of US Highway 287 and along Tollway 360, in Ellis and Johnson counties.

The community development, called Goodland, is the result of Grand Prairie’s recent 1,500-acre annexation extending its southern border toward Mansfield. Overall, with the added land, Goodland will be a 5,000-acre site featuring 15,000 residences including townhomes, custom homes, and gated communities for 50,000 residents.

According to a release, it will be a “city within a city” and a 45-minute drive from Dallas-Fort Worth. Beyond housing, there will be shops, restaurants, schools, public and private event venues, regional sports fields and complexes, dance halls, churches, trail systems, city parks, ponds, and preserved green spaces.

“This is a significant step in our city’s development,” says Grand Prairie Mayor Ron Jensen in a statement. “Unlike many of our neighboring cities, we have the unique advantage of new development opportunities to our south that will drive the growth and prosperity of our city. We recognized the opportunity and took decisive action.”

Leading the development is Provident, a Dallas-based real estate firm that has created other master-planned communities across Dallas-Fort Worth, such as Preston Hollow Village and Hillstead in Collin County. Provident has plans to work nature into the space design with more than 1,600 acres of creek corridors and floodplain land.

Plans are ongoing for a centralized mixed-use walkable Town Center, complete with civic buildings and other commercial development. Further south on the property near Highway 67, light industrial uses and other private employment campuses are already underway, projects that will contribute vital tax dollars for city growth and future expansions.

“This level of placemaking is quite rare, and certainly not easy to execute, especially in a brand-new community," says Provident Managing Director Rylan Yowell in a statement. "We are committed to a long-term vision with a desire to be good stewards of the land."

A new four-lane road called Goodland Parkway will link Goodland to Grand Prairie at Tollway 360 and US Highway 287. It's set to open by December 2025.

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