Development
BY ALEX REECE
Progress is being made on the roughly $70 million downtown Frisco redevelopment project with Main Street construction expected to start in April, o cials said. Mayor Je Cheney, City Manager Wes Pierson and interim Engineering Services Director Jason Brodigan gave a status update on Rail District construction during a Feb. 19 town hall meeting. “We’re making major improvements in our Rail District,” Cheney said. “Council has been very committed to making sure that our downtown is a unique destination.” First of four Rail District projects near completion
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Redeveloping the Rail District can be broken down into four distinct projects, Brodigan said, including: • Elm Street construction • Main Street construction • Fourth Street Plaza construction • Five-story downtown parking garage construction Work on the multiphase project o cially began when ground broke on Elm Street last July, Cheney said. That phase of the Rail District is expected to wrap up soon, Brodigan said. Once Elm Street reopens, it can be used as a detour path for drivers to avoid Main Street when the next wave of construction hits. “We’ll start construction on [Main Street] in April,” Brodigan said. “We’re full throttle right now trying to get those plans nished up so we can go to bid.” Main Street construction is expected to last two years.
The work planned for Main Street is designed to ensure some sections will be open to drivers during construction, Brodigan said. “We’ll never fully close Main Street,” he said. “Maybe overnight, but [it will] never ... really [be] fully closed for a long period of time.”
July 2023-Feb 2024: Elm Street construction April 2024-early summer 2026: Main Street construction
Summer 2024-early summer 2026: Fourth Street Plaza construction Summer 2024-mid-summer 2025: Five-story downtown parking garage construction
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Work on the overall Fourth Street Plaza and parking garage construction is expected to begin this summer. “We are working out the exact timing between which one starts rst because they share a boundary, and we don’t want one to get in the way of the other,” he said. All four projects should nish in early summer 2026, just ahead of the FIFA World Cup, Brodigan said. FIFA matches will be held in Arlington with Frisco to be a potential team host city.
Construction on Main Street is expected to start in April as the project moves toward its 2026 deadline.
Parking garage construction
Fourth Street Plaza construction
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