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Plano, TX
Plano sits roughly 20 miles north of downtown Dallas, and over the past two decades it's become one of the most significant corporate relocation destinations in the entire country, drawing major company headquarters — including Toyota's North American headquarters, which relocated from California to Plano in 2017 — specifically for the combination of no state income tax, comparatively lower costs, and a large, well-educated regional workforce. That corporate influx has been concentrated substantially around Legacy West and the broader Legacy Business Park, a large mixed-use development combining corporate office towers with upscale retail, restaurants, and residential space built specifically to give relocating companies and their employees an urban-style amenity district in what had previously been a more conventional suburban office-park setting. Plano's population grew from a small farming town of a few thousand residents in the mid-20th century to well over 280,000 by the 2020s, one of the more dramatic sustained growth trajectories of any American suburb over that timeframe, driven substantially by the telecommunications and technology corporate expansion that took root in the area beginning in the 1980s and '90s. Plano's combination of a genuinely significant national corporate relocation trend, the large-scale Legacy West mixed-use development, and decades of sustained population growth has made it one of the most economically consequential suburbs anywhere in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
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McKinney, TX
McKinney's historic downtown square, built around its 1927 Collin County courthouse, has preserved a dense cluster of early-20th-century brick commercial buildings that now house restaurants, boutiques, and galleries — a walkable town center that's stood in deliberate contrast to the newer, car-oriented commercial development that's grown up around the city as the broader Dallas metro area has expanded northward. Money magazine named McKinney the number one "Best Place to Live in America" in 2014, a national ranking that brought the city significant attention and that local officials and real estate agents have continued to cite as validation of the city's combination of historic charm, strong schools, and comparatively affordable housing relative to closer-in Dallas suburbs. The city has grown rapidly over the past two decades even while working to preserve its historic square, expanding from roughly 55,000 residents in 2000 to well over 200,000 by the mid-2020s, making it one of the larger cities in the broader Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex despite still being commonly described as a "small town" because of its preserved historic core. McKinney's combination of a genuinely well-preserved historic downtown square, a nationally recognized "best place to live" ranking, and rapid population growth managed alongside historic preservation has made it one of the more frequently cited success stories among Dallas-area suburbs balancing growth against small-town character.
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