Frisco Lands it On The Green

[Jim Cummings]

Frisco Lands It On The Green

FRISCO (Dallas Morning News) – PGA of America is poised to move to North Texas and create what it calls the "Silicon Valley of golf."

Its new headquarters will house at least 100 workers and cost the PGA at least $30 million to build.

The association will anchor a 600-acre mixed-use development at future extensions of Rockhill Pkwy. and Legacy Dr. near Frisco's northern border. It will cost more than $520 million to build using public and private funds.

Frisco officials estimate it will have an economic impact of more than $2.5 billion over the next 20 years.

In addition to the association's 100,000-sf headquarters and education facility, the project will include two 18-hole championship golf courses, a nine-hole short course, and practice areas for a total of 45 holes.

It also will include an estimated 35,000-sf clubhouse, 500-room Omni resort, and 127,000-sf conference center.

The three courses alone account for 540 acres.

Minimum potential state and local tax incentives for the project total $163.8 million. 

[Mark Creason]

I am excited about this project.  I live about 5 minutes from here.  I believe this site is part of the Fields Ranch.  He passed away a few years ago but had several thousand acres in Frisco.  Our towns version of @Jay Hinrichs.

Mark