Frisco Freedom Fest Still Happening as Planned Today, July 3

If you are worried about weather conflicting with your holiday, well there is good news. According to the City of Frisco Official site Freedom Fest is still ON. Click here for more information

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Movie time at Frisco Square?

Breaking Ground for the New Cinemark!!

I am so excited to announce that according to www.friscoenterprise.com… Friso Square is getting a MOVIE THEATER!!

Grab the popcorn, it looks like Frisco’s getting a movie theatre west of City Hall.

Owner and developer Frisco Square Development is mum, sensitive to tenant timing of the full announcement. But Cinemark’s name is on the permit to clear land, which began Tuesday. Well, technically, the name on some of the paperwork is “CNEW;” however, Cinemark also appears on city records for permits.

City records reflect a project involving “A movie theater and retail/office and hotel on the southwest corner of Frisco Square Blvd. and Church Street. Zoned Planned Development-153- Mixed (PD-153-Mixed). Neighborhood #21.”

Building plans are under review, according to public records at the city’s development services department.

“Their building plans are not yet approved,” said department head John Lettelier. “But engineering has approved them for flatwork (site preparation), which started Tuesday.”

The detailed master plan hanging on the wall at Frisco Square Development’s office shows a movie theatre envisioned on Frisco Square Boulevard at the south end of World Cup Way. The location is marked with a bright red star in a photo taken some months ago during an interview on another topic.

Lettelier said no public meetings or commission reviews of plans are necessary because Frisco Square is zoned as a planned development. City staff can approve plans.

Opening date a bit sketchy, but it could be the summer Movies in the Square just moved a block west.

As for continuing speculation on another movie theatre on the west side of the Dallas North Toll at Main Event, Lettelier said, “There have been no submittals to the city.”

For more on this story, keep an eye on www.friscoenterprise.com and future print editions of The Frisco Enterprise.

A red star highlights the location of a Cinemark movie theatre for which site preparation is underway west of City Hall on Frisco Square Boulevard at the south end of World Cup Way.

Site preparation is easily viewed from area buildings and the Dallas North Tollway.

A bulldozer moves earth while crews erect construction fencing on the site believed to be the home of a future Cinemark movie theatre.

Thank you for checking out my blog… I am happy to be your Frisco Family Realtor. Call me if you are thinking of buying or selling you home… or know if someone buying and or selling….

Lili Raney
214-636-7290
Lili@LiliRaney.com

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Frisco Texas New Alarm Ordinance Effective March 1, 2010

New Alarm Ordinance Effective March 1, 2010

According to Frisco Texas Police Department, beginning on March 1 the Frisco Police Department will begin to enforce a new city ordinance regulating residential and business burglar alarms. The Frisco City Council passed the new ordinance near the end of 2009, but enforcement of the new regulations and fees have not yet been enforced as city officials wished to allow both residents and businesses to meet compliance prior to active enforcement by the police department.

The new alarm ordinance requires a $35 annual fee for residential and business alarms and incorporates a new fee schedule for excessive false alarms. In 2009, the Frisco Police Department responded to 9,841 alarms of which over 99.6% were false alarms, costing taxpayers over $1.1 million for a police response.

In an effort to mitigate these costs and reduce the impact on Frisco taxpayers, the following fines will be applied to excessive false burglar alarms occurring in a 12-month period preceding the last false alarm:

– $50 for more than three but fewer than six false burglar alarms;

– $75 for more than five but fewer than eight false burglar alarms; and

– $100 for more than eight false burglar alarms.

Response by Frisco police officers to more than two false robbery, fire, panic, or emergency medical assistance alarms in a 12-month period preceding the last false alarm will incur a $75 fine for each subsequent false alarm.

Additionally, alarm permit holders are required to supply alarm companies with three names and telephone numbers of contacts who are able to respond to a false alarm, and failure by the alarm permit holder or the three contacts to respond within 30 minutes of a false alarm may result in a $50 fine.

For additional information on the new alarm ordinance or to ensure that your home or business meets the new standards, please contact our Records Division at 972.292.6000 or email Records@FriscoTexas.gov. The police department’s Records Division section of our web site also has information on the alarm permit application process for those people needing to renew or apply for a new permit.

Frisco Police Announce an Online Citizen Survey

The Frisco Police Department is pleased to announce the addition of a new online citizen satisfaction survey. The survey is a collaborative effort with the Bureau of Justice Statistics and was developed by Justice Survey Software to help local police departments conduct surveys of their individual agencies.

The police department would like to encourage all citizens and members of the Frisco business community to complete the survey. In order to complete the online questionnaire, please visit the Frisco Community Survey. Once the page has opened, click “Open/Resume Questionnaire” and answer the questions provided. The survey should take only a few minutes to complete.

Thanks for your help with providing your feedback and helping the Frisco Police Department to better serve the community!

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Apple store opens to applause

Apple store opens to applause
By Jan Bellamy / Frisco Enterprise

Michael Rainwater of Frisco set up his portable chair at 7 a.m. Saturday to be first in line for the grand opening of Apple’s newest store at Stonebriar Centre in Frisco.

“I’m here for the event and to get the new Snow Leopard OS,” Rainwater said.

Rainwater was quickly followed by Bruce Everly of McKinney. Everly came through the outside door to the ice rink, across from the new Apple store, set to open at 10 a.m.

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Frisco grooves starting June 5

The fourth annual Frisco Grooves concert series kicks off June 5 at Warren Sports Complex, 7599 Eldorado Parkway.

Each Friday night in June, Texas-bred singer-songwriters will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. for an evening of music, bare foot dancing and rolling in the grass. The free-admission program is sponsored by American Bank of Texas.

“We hope everyone will make it out this June to get your groove on!” said Ginger Nye, the bank’s marketing director.

This year’s line-up of performers includes a variety of artists from all over the state of Texas. Austin-based Eleven Hundred Springs will start the Groove on June 5.

Frisco Grooves is open to the public free of charge, and families are welcome to bring wagons and picnics, but you don’t have to because concessions will be available.

Full Story at The Frisco Enterprise

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Frisco Area Trails

The Parks & Recreation Department is continually working to make the City of Frisco a bicycle and pedestrian friendly community.  The Hike and Bike Trails Master Plan shows the potential development of a city-wide, hierarchical system of trails that will achieve the goal of making Frisco a leader in the Metroplex for providing residents with safe and efficient recreational and commuter hiking and biking trails.  View the Hike and Bike Master Plan.

Beaver Bend Trail Extension
Location: Design has begun for a trail that will extend from the Beavers Bend neighborhood park west to B.F. Phillips Park. 

Status: Construction of this trail is scheduled to begin in 2007.

Caddo Trail
Location:  This one mile hike and bike system is located along Stewart Creek, just to the south of Stonebrook Parkway and will extend through the Chapel Creek development and connect into the city’s neighborhood park lying adjacent to Spears Elementary School.

College Parkway Trail
Location: This 1.2 mile trail will provide linkage along the TXU easement that runs from College Parkway northward to and past Rolater Road. Once completed, this linkage will provide connection from the Preston Ridge Campus of CCCCD, Shawnee Trail Sports Complex, Shawnee Trail Elementary School, Centennial High School, Wester Middle School, Gunstream Elementary School and Shepherds Glen Park.

Status: Construction of this trail is scheduled to be completed in 2008.

Griffin Parc Trail
Location: Located within the Griffin Parc Development, a series of public hike and bike trails that lie within the subdivision and provide a linkage from just west of Legacy Parkway to Teel Parkway.

Lone Star Ranch Trail
Location: Located within the Lone Star Ranch Development, a series of public hike and bike trails that lie within the subdivision providing a linkage from Fourth Army Memorial Drive to Southwest Community Park to a future FISD school site to the interior of the development.

Taychas Trail
Location: Located along the West Rowlett Creek corridor traveling north from Isabel Elementary School to Rolater Road, the first phase of the trail will be approximately one mile in distance.

Trails of West Frisco Trail
Location: Located within the Trails of West Frisco Development, a series of public hike and bike trails that lie within both interior to the subdivision as well as the perimeter of the development. This system provides a linkage from Teel Parkway and FM 720 northward along to Teel Parkway to Cottonwood Creek and will ultimately tie northward to Eldorado Parkway.

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