Crow Holdings to Develop 1st Mass-Timber Office Building in North Texas

Southstone Yards. Image courtesy of Crow Holdings

The Offices at Southstone Yards, North Texas’ first mass-timber office building, is slated to be underway in Frisco, Texas, in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, later this summer, Crow Holdings Development announced.

The seven-story, 235,000-square-foot office building, near the northeast corner of SH 121 and Spring Creek Parkway, will anchor a 45-acre mixed-use development with more than 1 million square feet of office space, along with residential, hotel, retail and restaurants.

It will feature such amenities as fitness and wellness centers, conference and executive meeting areas, an advanced system for enhanced indoor air quality, and two adjacent parks totaling more than 3 acres. This is in addition to mass timber’s advantages of a lighter environmental footprint and higher thermal insulation.

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Designed by Duda|Paine Architects in partnership with Gensler, The Offices at Southstone Yards is expected to start construction this summer, with completion scheduled for the third quarter of 2023.

A local media outlet reported that Southstone Yards will be developed in four phases. Phases 1 and 3 will each have a 230,000-square-foot, seven-story office building with an accompanying parking structure. Phases 2 and 4 will each have a 325,000-square-foot, 10-story office building with an accompanying parking structure.

The surrounding mixed-use development will feature more than 9 acres of green space, including a central park to tie together the project’s various uses and a recently completed public park along the site’s eastern, creek edge. Of an eventual more than 1,000 townhomes and other residential units, 355 rental apartments will be in a five-story building to be developed by LMC, a division of Lennar Corp.

Multiple Dallas-area mixed-use developments

Frisco does not lack for CRE development. In March, Caddis Healthcare Real Estate announced plans for a 60,000-square-foot medical office building there.

Last November, HALL Group got underway with the latest phase of its HALL Park, a $7 billion mixed-use development totaling about 9.5 million square feet. These latest components include a Class AAA office tower, a 154-key hotel, a 19-story luxury residential tower, a 10,000-square-foot food hall and a community park.

And meanwhile, Blue Star Land, the development company headed by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, and partner Lincoln Property Co. continue to expand The Star, a 91-acre campus in Frisco. The latest addition will be a 313,000-square-foot office tower.