One of just a handful of large tracts of land left on Dallas North Tollway in Plano is earmarked for a major mixed-use development, according to the Dallas Morning News. 

Located at the south entrance to the booming Legacy business park, the 38 prime acres are owned by the Baccus family whose agricultural lineage in western Collin County dates back more than a century. The family is partnering with Dallas-based Provident Realty, which will transform the raw farmland into The Legacy at Spring Creek. 

In addition to more than 50,000 square feet of retail space clustered in a park-like setting along Spring Creek Parkway, preliminary plans call for a boutique hotel and three office towers with eight to 10 stories. But demand in the Legacy-Plano submarket could prompt a few tweaks, since several retail and restaurant brands were unable to set up shop in the primary market.

Rendering Courtesy of O'Brien Architects

"We are giving the retailers and restaurants high visibly while still keeping the walkable, urban environment," Leon Backes, CEO of Provident Realty, told the Dallas Morning News. "[And] we have the capacity to do just about any size campus or corporate facility that comes along. We could probably put a couple million square feet of buildings there.”

According to Mick Granlund, vice president of O’Brien Architects, his firm’s goal is to design an architecturally iconic development that has a sense of place. The firm plans to incorporate the site’s existing grove of trees, for example. 

Construction on The Legacy at Spring Creek is slated to begin in the first quarter of 2018. And Phase I will include retail space, the hotel, infrastructure, and landscaping.