About the Area

Frisco is located 20 minutes north of downtown Dallas, and 25 minutes from both Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and Love Field. Frisco offers a wide variety of award-winning hotels, shopping, concerts and events, 4 professional sports teams, and over 150 pieces of art on public display.

Over eight million square feet of retail and dining in Frisco include IKEA, Stonebriar Centre mall, Sam Moon Trading Company and much more.

The Dallas Stars call Frisco home, with their corporate official and official practice ice located adjacent to the mall. FC Dallas major league soccer play at Pizza Hut Park, where a variety of concerts, football games and national and international soccer games also take place. The Frisco RoughRiders AA Affiliate of the Texas Rangers play at Dr Pepper Ballpark, and the NAHL Texas Tornado Hockey team and our new NBA D League team Texas Legends play at Dr Pepper Arena.

Frisco provides exceptional hotels and meeting space to accommodate a wide variety of meetings, corporate retreats and trade shows. Art abounds in Frisco with over 100 pieces in Hall Office Park, including the Texas Sculpture Garden, and over 50 publicly owned sculptures throughout the City of Frisco as well.

Frisco knows how to get in the holiday spirit — every year the downtown is turned into a magical area with a holiday light show to music, an outdoor ice skating rink and more.  Frisco becomes a destination for holiday enjoyment.  Click on this link to see a You Tube video of Frisco’s “Holiday in the Park”  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72o9cqz7TVY&feature=share – it is awesome!

Frisco’s population is approximately 120,000 (January 2011) and Frisco comprises 62.3 square miles. The average age is 34 (Frisco is a young city) and the median income is $101,574. 

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Plano is located just minutes north of downtown Dallas and a short drive to most major attractions and venues throughout the Dallas/Fort Worth area like the Dallas Cowboys and Texas Rangers stadiums. While staying in Plano, you will find unique and entertaining attractions, like the Southfork Ranch from the television series “Dallas,” and events, like Texas’ largest Hot Air Balloon Festival. Plano offers a multitude of restaurants for every taste and style, and all the shopping you could ever want, as well as a variety of hotel and lodging offerings. Plano is also home to 15 Fortune 500 companies. Let the Plano Convention and Visitors Bureau assist you in all your travel, meetings and conventions, and sports event planning needs. With so many things to do, see and visit, Plano is the perfect place to stay. That’s what you can expect from a city built around you.

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Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States. Divided between Collin, Dallas, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall counties, the city had a 2010 population of approximately 1.2 million, according to the United States Census Bureau.

The city is the largest economic center of the 12-county Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area that according to the March 2010 U.S. Census Bureau release, had a population of roughly 6.5 million as of July 2009.

Dallas was founded in 1841 and formally incorporated as a city in February 1856. The city’s economy is primarily based on banking, commerce, telecommunications, computer technology, energy, and transportation, and the city is home to the third largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the nation. Located in North Texas and a major city in the American South, Dallas is a core of the largest inland metropolitan area in the United States that lacks any navigable link to the sea.

The city’s prominence arose from its historical importance as a center for the oil and cotton industries, and its position along numerous railroad lines. Dallas developed a strong industrial and financial sector, and a major inland port, due largely to the presence of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, one of the largest and busiest airports in the world. It was rated as a beta world city by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group & Network.

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