Tall & Urban News

Plano’s $3 billion Legacy West development has been a non-stop construction zone for almost four years.

The 250-acre mixed-use project at the Dallas North Tollway and Highway 121 is home to some of the area’s biggest employers, including Toyota, Liberty Mutual Insurance and JPMorgan Chase.

Legacy West also has Plano’s two tallest new towers — both residential buildings.

The 29-story LVL 29 apartment high-rise and the 27-story Windrose Tower condominiums are finishing construction on the north side of Headquarters Drive at Communications Parkway.

“The Windrose Tower will soon be topped out,” said Legacy West developer Fehmi Karahan. “Both of the buildings are gorgeous.”

Windrose Tower has more than 100 condo units starting at around $1 million. The homes range in size from 1,850 to 11,000 square feet (172 to 1,022 square meters).

Karahan said he’s bought a penthouse unit in the tower overlooking the hugely successful Legacy West Urban Village, which he began developing in 2014.
“When we started, who would have thought it would have developed so fast?” he said.

Next door to Windrose Tower, LVL 29 will welcome its first apartment renters this summer, said Michael Pipkins with NE Development. Completion is scheduled for May, but weather could move the opening to June.

“The contractor will deliver the whole building to us at once,” Pipkins said. “But we can’t move all 328 units in at once so there will be some logistics.”NE Development hasn’t started renting the high-rise yet but has hired Lincoln Property Co. to handle management and leasing.

Pipkins said it’s too early to quote prices on the apartments.

The two residential buildings are the most visible elements of Legacy West, which stretches along the west side of the tollway. They are taller than the 19-story Liberty Mutual Insurance tower complex next door to the residential buildings.

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