Frisco: $1 billion twinkles around Cowboy ‘Star’

FRISCO – A development team that includes the Perot family’s Hillwood Properties and auto sales giant Van Tuyl are joining forces to build Frisco Station, a more than $1 billion development.

The almost 250-acre project will wrap around the Dallas Cowboy’s new headquarters and retail complex under construction at the Dallas North Tollway and Warren Pkwy.

The overall project will have more than 4 million sf of office space, 2,400 apartments, shops, restaurants and civic facilities. A large greenbelt and park will cut through the middle of the community.

Jim Gandy, president of the Frisco Economic Development Corp., said the two projects together will ultimately employ almost 19,000 people.

Frisco Station will include a combination of corporate office towers, shopping and entertainment plazas, mid-rise apartments, medical facilities and other buildings that will surround the Cowboy’s new “Star” project on three sides.

Hillwood and the Van Tuyl family’s VanTrust Real Estate are partnering with the Rudman family, which has owned the site for more than 50 years.

For more on the Dallas Cowboys’ "Star" project, see previous story Cowboys score $115M Frisco facility.