Frisco | March 2025

BY ALEX REECE

Frisco City Council members approved a $14 million , roughly one-acre expansion for Kalei- doscope Park and a master plan update during a March 4 meeting. The park expansion approval comes almost exactly ve months after Kaleido- scope Park ocially opened on Oct. 5. Mayor Je Cheney said while opening the park “a few short months ago,” city ocials realized they were onto something and wanted to continue build- ing it out into “something really, really special.” The details The expansion will add 1.44 acres to the park and include new landscaping and amenities, including: • A water feature • Outdoor video screen • Stage The master plan update will add a 1,100-space public parking garage in a 2.7-acre lot just south of the park. At least 100 spaces would be reserved for park visitors, according to meeting documents. There are “numerous community benets” in the two agreements, said Ken Schmidt, the city’s director of special projects. “Kaleidoscope Park, certainly, just opened in October, but it’s already a very popular, not only community amenity, but regional amenity,” he said. “This would build on that and enhance it.” The parking garage would serve as the podium Kaleidoscope Park to see expansion, parking garage

Kaleidoscope Park, which features the sculpture “Buttery Rest Stop,” could soon see new amenities.

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for a new 100,000 square-foot Class A oce tower. The Frisco Community Development Corpo- ration and Economic Development Corporation approved both of the agreements in late February. The breakdown The park expansion and parking garage projects are being funded by a mix of funding from the city and the Hall Group. Both the FCDC and the Hall Group are contributing $7 million toward the park expansion. Any additional costs above $14 million would be the Hall Group’s responsibility, according to meeting documents. The park expansion would need to be nished within two years of the city

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issuing the development permits. The FEDC is contributing a $7 million grant toward the parking garage that requires it to open by June 2028.

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