Business

On Friday, July 20, Plano Profile is hosting Wonder Women, a kick-off event for our 17th annual Women in Business summit.

Can TGI Fridays break away from their chain-restaurant stereotype? TGI Fridays locations across the country will be getting an update soon. Various locations will be renovated, much like the flagship restaurant in Addison.

The year is 2030. Its 7 a.m. on Interstate 75 as the people of Collin County make their way to work and school. They sit in the driver’s seat of their cars, but they are not the drivers — the cars drive themselves.

The Amerson family loves living room dance parties, Minions from Despicable Me , and late night ice cream runs. “ There are LEGOS on the floor, the living room table is sticky and there are paw prints on the sofa,” Ryan Amerson laughs.

Stacy Green, Allen. Renderings courtesy of GFF Architects. Allen is growing up. While we’ve been distracted by everything new and shiny popping up in west Plano and Frisco, Allen has been planning it’s own snazzy mixed-used development: Stacy Green.

Trails in Legacy by world-renowned sculptor Robert Summers. At The Shops at Legacy. Photo courtesy of The City of Plano.

Thanks to soaring demand from new corporate residents such as Toyota and Liberty Mutual Insurance, the Plano real estate market is hot, red hot.

On a normal day, ARTA travel agents stationed in their Plano headquarters have their heads in the clouds. Every agent is busy. Posters for Paris and Rome paper the walls. Every desk is layered with brochures and phones ring off the hook.

Delta Hotels by Marriott Dallas Allen celebrated its topping off with the City of Allen, Chef Stephan Pyles and Allen VIPs. Influential North Texas attendees enjoyed an entertaining sneak peek at the first four-star hotel in Allen.

Joshua Noskin didn’t finish college. Instead, he founded a luxury jewelry line for men. Asleep in his dorm room at Virginia Tech, Joshua Noskin, a 22-year-old Industrial Design major, had a dream that would change his life.