With a string of successes in downtown revitalization under its built, Plano, Texas is looking to duplicate that model elsewhere around the city.
“Things are going well for downtown Plano,” according to an article by Andrew Keatts.
Almost 15 years ago, Dallas-area regional planners put a light-rail station in historic downtown Plano. Since then, city leaders watched the area thrive with the types of developments – mixed-use, walkable, transit-oriented, public-private partnerships – that win a game of urban planning buzzword bingo.
Keatts notes that downtown Plano’s accomplishments earned recognition on the American Planning Association’s list of Great Places in America. Keatts provides a history of downtown Plano’s decline and resurgence, starting with disinvestment in the 1980s, the city’s first downtown plan in 1992, the arrival of a regional light rail line in 2002, and the transit oriented development that followed.
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