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BY MICHAEL CROUCHLEY & CODY THORN
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3 Plano City Council seats up for grabs The filing period to appear on the May 3 ballot in Plano ended at 5 p.m. on Feb. 14. Check out the final list of candidates for multiple city council seats. On the ballot Incumbent John Muns, who was first elected as mayor in 2021, is running for re-election unopposed. The Plano City Council Place 2 race will have three candidates, with Bob Kehr, Douglas Reeves and Carson K. Underwood all running. Christene Krupa Downs and Cody Weaver are running for Place 4, while Vidal Quintanilla and Hayden Padgett are both running for the Place 8 seat. Current Place 2, 4 and 8 council mem- bers Anthony Ricciardelli, Kayci Prince and Rick Smith, respectively, have all hit the term limit and cannot run for re-election. What else Early voting for the May 3 election will last from April 22-29. The last day to register to vote is April 3.
Atlantic Aviation Corporate Headquarters
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The city of Plano has entered economic incentive agreements to relocate Sally Beauty Holdings and Atlantic Aviation’s corporate headquarters to Plano. The big picture Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc., announced in a news release that it would leave Denton and relocate its corporate headquarters to Plano. The company founded in 1964 will lease 140,000 square feet of office space at 7900 Windrose Avenue in the Legacy West development. The move will bring approximately 600 employees to Plano at the end of 2025. “Legacy is recognized as one of the premier business parks in the United States, offering unparalleled opportunities for businesses like Sally Beauty to thrive,” Doug McDonald, Plano Director of Economic Development, said in a news release. Sally Beauty has more than 4,000 stores across three continents and recently opened 10 Happy Beauty Co. stores to meet the demand of high-quality, low-cost beauty products in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to a news release.
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What else Atlantic Aviation is keeping its headquarters in Plano, but moving around two miles north to Granite Park 6. Plano City Council approved an economic incentive that will provide the company with $300,000 to move their headquar- ters into a 25,000-square-foot space on Granite Park 6’s seventh floor, located at 5525 Granite Parkway. Atlantic Aviation provides a variety of aircraft maintenance services at various locations nationwide, including locations in Dallas and Addison. The company’s headquarters were previously located at 5201 Tennyson Parkway.
Plano council approves new parks facility, trailhead improvements at Oak Point Park
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A new maintenance facility for Plano’s parks department is set to be constructed at Oak Point Park. The gist The 15,520-square-foot maintenance facility set for the corner of Los Rios Boulevard and Parker Road will feature space for offices, equip- ment storage, vehicle maintenance bays and more. Plano City Council approved the project at its Feb. 10 meeting. The new facility will also feature trailhead improvements with restrooms and a bicycle services station open to the public. The site will also feature more than 90 parking spaces.
Diving deeper The new facility will be replacing the current facility at Schell Park, which Plano Assistant Director of Parks Dave Angeles said is outdated. He added that the facility’s location near Memorial Elementary School and several neigh- borhoods is not ideal. “We really would like to get our maintenance facilities a little bit further away from the resi- dential areas, as well as preventing the ingress and egress of our staff during school hours and school release times,” he said. The construction of the facility will cost nearly $13 million , and will be paid for with 2021 bond funds.
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What’s next Construction on the project is expected to begin early this summer, and will take 12 months to complete, Plano Director of Engineering Caleb Thornhill said.
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