A Pacific Northwest company is moving its headquarters from Tacoma, Wash., to Frisco’s Hall Park. Northwest Hardwoods CEO Nathan Jeppson said relocating the company’s head office will better position it to serve customers across the globe. Northwest Hardwoods is the country’s largest producer of North American hardwood lumber.

Dallas developer Hall Group is kicking off a $7 billion redevelopment of the company’s 162-acre Frisco office park. Located at the Dallas North Tollway and Gaylord Parkway, Hall Park was started in the 1990s and includes more than 2 million square feet of offices in more than a dozen buildings. It’s Frisco’s largest office employment center with more than 10,000 workers

“There’s no place like Frisco. There’s no place like Frisco.” With that, developer Craig Hall and Frisco city officials ushered in a new era for Hall Park in Frisco.

City engineers have been working for years to prepare Frisco’s infrastructure for growth and development, and chief innovation officer Jason Cooley said no other North Texas city is operating at the same level. Frisco has also been at the forefront of autonomous vehicle tests, becoming the first city in Texas to test-drive autonomous shuttles in July 2018 through an eight-month pilot program with Drive.ai. The driverless shuttles successfully carried nearly 5,000 passengers on a fixed route between Hall Park, The Star and Frisco Station, according to the city website.

Developer Hall Group plans to kick off construction soon on a mixed-use project that will include an office high-rise on Warren Parkway just west of the tollway. The developer’s surrounding Hall Park is Frisco’s largest employment center, with more than 2.5 million square feet of offices housing almost 10,000 workers.

The city of Frisco is planning a beautiful new arts center in Hall Park. For long-time residents of Collin County this might sound odd, because in 2011 Frisco and its residents pulled out of the proposed Arts Center of North Texas after a decade of work.