Jerry Jones' Blue star purchases 615 acres in Prosper (Plano, McKinney: apartments, lease)

[biafra4life]

Originally Posted by skids929

It already is, except they renamed it Frisco for copyright infringement.

lol
In fairness, I will say this; I feel the town that Prosper has a very good chance of emulating would be the Fairview/Lucas area. Those towns are also based on having acre lots with more elbow room, more rural in nature. They too are close to shopping and other activities since they are real close to both Allen and McKinney, and they have a great school district (Lovejoy). And that's not a bad goal at all. Like Prosper, they really dont have any other great attributes (far away from almost everything except the Plano Legacy area) yet those areas are pretty good, home prices are very high, I've been out there a few times visiting friends in the area...very nice. That is what Prosper is most likely to become.

[Lakewooder]

So now Jerry from Arkansas is getting into the Oklahoma scene too?

[biafra4life]

Originally Posted by Lakewooder

So now Jerry from Arkansas is getting into the Oklahoma scene too?

Part of his master plan to eventually have the metroplex stretch all the way through Oklahoma to his beloved Arkansas...

[Lakewooder]

That is a lot of red polyester..

[TX75007]

Its just Jerry's REIT at work. The land is his bank.

There are a number of them at work in the DFW area. You'd be surprised how much land is owned by them along the major corridors.

[mikeh19468]

Originally Posted by TX75007

Its just Jerry's REIT at work. The land is his bank.

There are a number of them at work in the DFW area. You'd be surprised how much land is owned by them along the major corridors.

I'll be interested to see the effect of the new Baylor Medical Center opening, along with progress on four corners and other development. Will housing starts and sales accelerate as more civilization comes closer? Maybe. I'll be happy with the Tollway makes it all the way through so that takes the pressure off of Custer, Coit, and Preston Rd's going through Frisco for some of the southbound traffic (or if the Frisco streets dept would just finish up one or two major upgrade at a time rather than taking on four or five and screwing up traffic at multiple chokepoints...).

[biafra4life]

Hey Crew! Are you SAAB112 on Frisco online? I just saw this exact thread opened up with your exact post.

[ClarenceBodiker]

So another faux town center with some chain restaurants and retail on the ground floor? Sweet.

Meanwhile, another nice, rural community's days are running out. All of those people who paid a lot of money to live "away from it all" are about to be right in the thick of suburban congestion, noisy highways, and lack of privacy. I'm sure everyone is very excited about that.

And I love the quote about this "risk" they're taking out there and how the Joneses need it to succeed so national papers like "USA Today" don't rub it in. Typical Jerry ego to think the entire nation is sitting around waiting to see if his strip mall will fail. And really? You think it's a risk? You bought a bunch of land just north of where the tollway ends. If you had any guts and wanted to prove yourself and actually improve this region in the process, you could have taken a stab at buying land and trying to gentrify somewhere in Dallas's core or south of 30. An actual risk, but with more potential upside and you really would look like a genius if you pulled it off. Instead you're a chicken and always sell Dallas out in the process, just like you did with the Cowboys Stadium. Enjoy your new traffic, Prosper.

[ClarenceBodiker]

Crew gets a little overly excited about his neighborhood on this forum, but there have been others who do the same thing, start threads like these, and don't get so much crap about it.

[MckinneyOwnr]

Originally Posted by ClarenceBodiker

Crew gets a little overly excited about his neighborhood on this forum, but there have been others who do the same thing, start threads like these, and don't get so much crap about it.

Probably because they don't do it all the time. I can spout off a few cheerleaders, (TC80, Lakewooder, etc) that like to extol the virtues of where they live, and that's fine. I don't see them starting threads all the time to do it, or attempt to steer an unrelated thread to their neighborhood.

As I said before, I'm still fairly new here, but during that time, I don't think I've seen Crew say anything that wasn't Prosper related.