Everywhere you turn, it seems like you’re hearing more about Plano and the massive Legacy West development. Get ready for the next stage: Legacy South. According to the Dallas Morning News, Legacy South will be a seven-story office building on one of the last vacant tollway sites.

The 210,000-square-foot office building is located less than a mile away from the Legacy West mixed-use development and about two miles from the new Toyota North America headquarters. 

Although the building isn’t scheduled to be completed until 2019, developer Randy Heady told the Dallas Morning News that they’re already in talks with three potential office tenants. Heady’s company, Heady Investments, owns another seven buildings in the area, totaling over one million square feet. All his other buildings are fully leased.

The land for the new Legacy South office building was owned by the Beatty family, whose ancestors held the property for over a century. Scott Beatty said his family has had numerous requests over the years to sell the property. 

"We have horses on the west side," Scott Beatty told the Dallas Morning News. "My great-grandfather knew the value was in the land and he told my grandmother never to sell.

"We realize that it's the time to do something with it but we want to keep it in the family as much as possible." 

Even more than expanding the real estate options in the region, Legacy South reflects the changing place of families who have owned the land for more than a century. The era of farmland in Plano is all but gone as the area becomes even more in demand as a business center.