Frisco, Texas is 20 miles north of Dallas and spans 71 square miles in the counties of Collin and Denton, two of the fastest growing counties in North Texas. With a population of less than 7,000 in 1990, the City of Frisco now has a population of approximately 75,000 residents and is growing on a weekly basis. It is the fastest growing city in Texas and is known as “the city with the heart of a town”.
Terrain
Frisco comprises about 70 square miles, where 69.9 percent is land and 0.2 percent is water. The nearest cities are The Colony, six miles away and Prosper, about 6.9 miles away.
Population
The population of Frisco is approximately 73,330 people as of March 2005 per Frisco Planning Department.
Jobs
There are so many large corporations in Plano that a good percentage of the workforce from Frisco works there. Plano lies just south of Frisco. Raytheon, IDE, EDS started by the famous Ross Perot and over 6000 businesses thrive in Plano.
Colleges/Universities
Colleges in the Frisco area: The Preston Ridge campus of the Collin County Community College opened in Frisco in 1995; University of Texas at Dallas, 13 miles away in Richardson; Brookhaven College, 16 miles in Farmers Branch; North Lake College, 22 miles away in Irving.
Housing
The City of Frisco has a down payment assistance program where new home buyers can borrow up to $10,000 for a down payment and closing costs in the City of Frisco. In 2004 there were 3414 new permits for single family homes the average cost to build was $239,700.
Sports
Sports teams include a minor league baseball team called the Rough Riders.
The Dallas Stars, a National Hockey League team, practices in Frisco.
F. C. Dallas (formally The Dallas Burn, a major league soccer team who plays in the Dallas Cotton Bowl) has moved the team to Frisco.
America’s professional soccer championship, The MLS Cup, is the pinnacle of the Major League Soccer season. It is being held at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco. Many of the world’s best soccer players compete in the MLS Cup as the best team from the Eastern Conference meets the Western Conference’s top club. MLS Cup holds worldwide interest and media from all over the world come to Frisco to report on the games.
The Dallas Cup offers the most competitive International Youth Soccer competition in North America. The teams in the Dallas Cup are selected by invitation only based on a high level of competitive performance. In the last six years over 98 countries from six continents have sent representatives to these games.
TAFF Winter Games of Texas are held locally. The Texas Amateur Athletic Federation’s mission is to create and maintain in the State of Texas a permanent organization representative of amateur athletics and organizations, devoted to establish and maintain the highest ideals of amateur sports in the State of Texas, promote the development of physical education and to encourage the standardization of rules of all amateur athletics, games and competitions.
Special Attractions/Events
The Frisco Storytelling Festival is held at Frisco Commons Park. Listeners will be spellbound by fables from ancient cultures, retellings of Native American legends, hilarious chronicles of childhood misadventures, and much more.
Featuring award-winning storytellers, this truly entertaining and unique festival will offer two days and nights of family fun. In addition to concerts, puppet shows, folk arts and crafts, and more stories ever told in one setting, the grand finale concert will leave you laughing all the way home.
Interesting Facts
Frisco is famous for the largest collection of outdoor art in the country with works of art by James Surls, Frances Bagley, and Isaac Smith.
Frisco has had a 400 percent growth rate over the past 10 years. In the year 2010, it is estimated that the population will be 111,050 people.
Frisco has the largest shopping mall in North Texas, Stonebriar Center, that spans 1.7 million square feet, has a National Hockey League size ice skating rink, a 24 theater movie complex, and a carousel.
The City of Frisco received the environmental visions award for the years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004.
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