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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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University Park, TX
University Park takes its name directly from Southern Methodist University, whose main campus sits almost entirely within the small town's borders — a genuinely unusual arrangement in which a private university's campus occupies a substantial share of the land area of the independent municipality surrounding it. Like its twin town Highland Park, University Park incorporated as its own independent city specifically to remain outside Dallas's municipal boundaries even as the larger city grew to completely surround both towns, and the two together form the "Park Cities," sharing a combined school district, the Highland Park Independent School District, despite each maintaining separate city governments. SMU's campus brings a genuine college-town element to University Park's identity, with the university's Meadows Museum housing one of the most significant collections of Spanish art outside of Spain itself, and campus events and athletics drawing visitors into the town well beyond its own roughly 25,000 residents. University Park's combination of hosting a major private university's entire main campus, shared independent-city status alongside Highland Park, and a top-ranked shared school district has made it one of the most academically and architecturally distinctive small towns anywhere in the Dallas metropolitan area.
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