Las Colinas - Las Colinas Today

Las Colinas Today

With 25,000,000 sq ft (2,300,000 m2) of office space, nearly equivalent to the Dallas CBD, Las Colinas is currently home to more than 2,000 companies including the Fortune 500 global headquarters for Commercial Metals, ExxonMobil, Fluor and Kimberly-Clark. Other companies with headquarters in Las Colinas include Mission Foods, La Quinta Inns and Suites. In 1999 the company announced it was going to move its headquarters from San Antonio, stating that it wished to be near Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. It also the home to Kidd Kraddick in the Morning and ESPN Dallas. FOX News also tapes from the FOX News Texas Studios located in Las Colinas.

Other Las Colinas companies with offices in Las Colinas include Abbott Laboratories, AAA-Texas, AT&T, The Big 12 Conference Headquarters, Citigroup, General Motors, Microsoft, NEC America, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, Oracle, Research in Motion, Stellar, Verizon, Zale Corporation, VHA Corporation, PNM Resources, Inc., First Choice Power, Westwood One, TRT Holdings, Inc. Flowserve.

Las Colinas also features three private country clubs and four championship golf courses surrounded by gated communities. The Four Seasons resort and country club at MacArthur Blvd is the only AAA Five-Diamond resort in Texas. The TPC Four Seasons Las Colinas Resort has hosted the HP Byron Nelson Championship of PGA Tour since it opened in 1986. It features tree-lined fairways, large greens and a number of creeks and ponds.

It also contains high-rise office towers, retail centers, upscale residences, apartment complexes, and leisure facilities. Notable attractions include the Mustangs at Las Colinas sculpture and fountain and Las Colinas Flower Clock. The complex also features a River Walk-styled canal offering gondola cruises, as well as the above-ground Las Colinas APT System. Las Colinas has over 22,300,000 square feet (2,072,000 m2) of office space, 1,300,000 square feet (121,000 m2) of retail, and 3,400 single-family homes. A 40-acre (160,000 m2) tract in Las Colinas is also home to the Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas.

Schools in the local area include Irving Independent School District, Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District, and The Highlands School, a private Catholic PreK through 12 school.

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