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PROSPER, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Families in the northern part of the metroplex will no longer have to drive all the way to Dallas or Fort Worth for certain pediatric specialists or in-patient hospital stays.

Cook Children's Medical Center – Prosper officially opened on Monday.

The healthcare system broke ground on the 23-acre campus, located on U.S. 380 at the Denton-Collin County line, about three and half years ago.

Staff saw their first patients come through the emergency room doors on Monday.

"Our inpatient services are open as well, so it's an exciting day," said Kevin Greene, VP and administrator of Cook Children's Medical Center – Prosper.

The medical center combines emergency are, specialty clinics, outpatient surgeries, and inpatient treatment all under one roof.

"Families have all those different services here on one campus and no longer have to drive to Fort Worth or Dallas," Greene said. "They have it right here in their backyard."

After 105 years with one hospital in Fort Worth, Cook Children's decided to open a second full-service medical center in the fast-growing northern region of the state.

"This is really about the next 105 years, what that means," he said. "There's a quarter of a million kids in our service area now, which is going to grow to half a million."

The expansion comes at a critical time. Cook Children's saw unprecedented demand and extraordinary wait times this past fall, during a surge of viral illnesses.

"So we'll be working closely with our main campus in Fort Worth at those moments if they are full, we can work together to bring those kiddos out here or vice versa," said Greene. "So it's definitely a win-win for the community."

The Prosper medical center currently has 10 beds in its emergency department. Cook Children's expects to add another 10 over the next several months.

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Collin County continues to smash population growth records.

According to county officials, it was one of the fastest-growing counties in the entire country last year.

More families – especially on the northern end of Collin County and parts of Denton County – are moving to the area and creating a demand for quality healthcare.

After four years of construction, Cook Children’s will cut the ribbon on Thursday morning on a 23-acre medical center off Highway 380 in Prosper.

It's the first hospital Cook Children's has built outside of its flagship campus in Fort Worth in over 100 years.

“This is an extraordinary time in our almost 105-year history in North Texas,” said Rick W. Merrill, President, and CEO of Cook Children’s Health Care System. “Families in this fast-growing region can take comfort in knowing there’s no need to drive long distances to see board-certified pediatricians, specialists, intensivists, hospitalists, and emergency medical doctors. Their child’s medical needs can be met right here by our outstanding team in Prosper.”

With thousands of families moving to this area of North Texas each month, hospital system leaders say the need for quality pediatric health care is evident.

Cook Children’s already has a presence in this part of North Texas, having served more than 260,000 children through its 17 primary-care clinics elsewhere in Prosper, Aubrey, Plano, McKinney, Allen, Denton, Celina, Frisco, Little Elm, Flower Mound, and Carrollton.

But the expansion of the Dallas North Tollway further north past Frisco and into the Prosper and Celina area has made northern Collin County and eastern Denton County a haven for homebuilders and developers.

With Collin County already becoming the 6th most populous in all of Texas, Cook Children's officials say families in this fast-growing region need options to avoid driving far into the metroplex to find care.

"They no longer have to travel an hour to receive that urgent or emergent care, but we had it right there in their backyard,” said Greene. “And so as we looked at where our primary care clinics were set up and really where that growth was going, we saw Prosper and felt like it was a great opportunity to be able to have a centrally located campus that could really provide great care across the board for the entire northern region.”

Cook Children’s Medical Center – Prosper includes a 20-bed capacity emergency department, operating and procedure rooms, a 10-bed pediatric ICU, a medical/surgical unit, an outpatient infusion center, imaging services, a retail pharmacy, laboratory services, and pharmacy services.

"The beautiful thing about this campus, is we really designed it to be a one-stop shop," said Kevin Greene, vice president & administrator of Cook Children's Prosper. "Now with the opening of the medical center, our families won't have to travel for any of those needs."

The inside is also as unique as you can get in Texas, with a Sistine-chapel-like painting of flying cows over the main entrance – a nod to its Cowtown roots.

Greene also sited the growing RSV and flu cases that are inundating local children's hospital as another key indicator that more options for families are a must.

"I think we all are hearing in the news about what's going on with RSV and a lot of these respiratory illnesses. Personally, my five year old had RSV last week and then my six month old picked it up, and actually was admitted in Fort Worth," he said. "And so our pediatrician -- when they recognized that -- we got him down to Cook Children's main campus in Fort Worth. And they are taking care of him there and providing great care. But ultimately, though, we know that when this hospital opens, families will never have to travel to Fort Worth again. They will have all those services right here on campus."

Prosper is a hot spot for growth. Children's Health is also building a 72-acre specialty center that is set to open in early 2023, that is just a few miles from the Cook Children's site.

Both hospitals will bring hundreds of jobs to the region, with Cook Children's alone bringing in over 550 jobs to its new location by the end of this year.

After the ribbon cutting on Wednesday, Cook Children's Medical Center – Prosper is just weeks away from officially opening its doors to patients, with a planned opening at the end of December.

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The booming North Texas town of Prosper is well on its way to becoming a pediatric health care hub, with the grand opening of the Children’s Health Specialty Center Prosper adding to the area’s medical options for children and adolescents.

Located on a 72-acre parcel of land at the Dallas North Tollway and U.S. Highway 380, Children’s Health’s new three-story medical facility joins a group of other hospitals and outpatient facilities staking claim in Prosper. Fort Worth-based Cook Children’s hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony for its own medical center in November.

The grandeur of Thursday’s event — which will feature a ribbon cutting; performances from local high school drumlines, cheerleaders and dance teams; and remarks from the Prosper mayor — fits the fanfare that has surrounded the competition between health care industry giants to establish themselves in the rapidly growing area north of Dallas.

“The biggest thing is that this is just the beginning. The Children’s Health facility is set on almost 75 acres, so the development is going to bring more than this one building. It’s going to be all the ancillary things to come, additional specialties,” said Prosper Mayor David Bristol. “So I would say stand by, things are going to get even better.”

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For years, hospital systems have raced to keep up with the pace of population growth in the area far north of Dallas. Prosper is perhaps the best example of the region’s success: The town jumped from around 9,400 people in 2010 to more than 34,000 in 2021, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

But the not-for-profit Children’s Health system set its eyes on the suburbs inching toward the Texas-Oklahoma border long before Prosper’s population, well, prospered.

Children’s Medical Center Plano, opened in 2008, is undergoing a major expansion that will add a 300,000-square-foot, seven-floor tower and expand bed capacity from 72 to 212. Plano, while not growing at the same trajectory as Prosper, still saw population increases in the last decade, growing from nearly 260,000 people in 2010 to over 288,000 in 2021.

The medical centers in Dallas and Plano are the only two hospitals operated by the health system, while the Prosper location will offer urgent care and specialty services, said Children’s Health northern market president Vanessa Walls.

“Those campuses will still be available to take care of those patients as they need higher level care, but we wanted to be able to get more physician office-based services closer to them because that’s where most of that relationship begins,” Walls said.

Specialty Center Prosper’s first floor houses an urgent care that operates outside of traditional office hours and the Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine. The third floor includes a number of specialty services, ranging from cardiology to oncology to audiology, while the second floor is set aside as space for expansion in the future.

Plans for the rest of the massive Prosper medical campus look similar to that of the Specialty Center’s second floor.

“We know that we want to be able to grow there to continue to serve that community, but we haven’t put plans together yet for what will be the next step,” Walls said. “We want to hear from the community what they need, what they want and where they want that care provided.”

Children’s Health isn’t only expanding north. The system, along with its joint operating partner UT Southwestern Medical Center, plans to start construction this spring on a clinic in the Red Bird Mall redevelopment in Southwest Dallas. The hospital duo also plans to construct a new pediatric hospital campus where the Bass Center buildings are currently located on UT Southwestern Medical Center’s campus.

Still, as has long been the case, the majority of hospitals in Dallas County are located north of I-30, meaning that health care facilities aren’t where people with the greatest health care needs live, according to data from the county’s latest Community Health Needs Assessment.

“I think you will see that the hospitals are trying to balance that fact that a lot of their growth is north, but a lot of the population movement is north,” said Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council president and CEO Steve Love. “I do commend the health systems for the work they’re doing, especially in the southern part of Dallas and even Tarrant County.”

Population growth has been largely concentrated north and east of Dallas rather than south. Celina, located just north of Prosper, saw its population skyrocket from 6,000 in 2010 to nearly 24,000 in 2021, while towns south of Dallas like Duncanville, Cedar Hill and DeSoto saw much more modest growth in the last decade.

The Town of Prosper Council met on Tuesday, February 28 for a regular meeting.

Prosper Mayor David Bristol led the meeting and a quorum was present. This was the first meeting in which new Town Manager Mario Canizares was present. During the announcements, Council Member Christopher Kern informed the public of the following: Moonlight Movie will be on March 31 at 7 p.m., a nutrition workshop will be held Wednesday evenings, starting March 15.

The Town Council heard a short presentation about the Achievement of Excellence Award earned by the Prosper Community Library. There are over 500 public libraries in Texas and only 73 were awarded the award. Director Leslie Scott thanked the Town Council and staff for their support of the library. Scott recognized each member of the library staff during the meeting, and stated that the library would not have received the award without their hard work. Mayor Bristol presented the library staff with a Proclamation.

The Town Council approved the Consent Agenda, including a motion to cancel the election May 6, 2023 as both Town Council members are returning to the Council unopposed. Three items were removed from the Consent Agenda, which means they will be discussed in a Town Council meeting. Information about the details of each item is available on the Town website.

No members of the community spoke during Public Comment.

Town Council discussed an amendment for an area located northside of Prosper Trail and west of Dallas Parkway. According to Town staff, the applicant would like to be approved to have a big box retailer. Additionally, the applicant would reduce the number of multifamily homes in this area. Finally, the applicant is wanting to move where the drive thru restaurants are in the plan. The total area that is in question is slightly more than 37 acres. An extended stay hotel is already approved for this plot of land, as well as an open space as part of this plan.

The Town has received at least seven letters with either questions or requests to screen the big box and multifamily building from the adjacent neighborhood. One update to the Plan was additional landscaping and not having a connection from the parking lot to the adjacent neighborhood.

David Bond with Spiars Engineering spoke to the Council, giving details about the future plans for this property. “The previous PD was approved in 2020,” Bond said. “If you have been out to the site, you would be aware that Lot 8 is under construction, and Lot 9 is in permitting right now. That is a drive thru coffee shop. We also have an extended stay hotel that is going through permitting. The multifamily housing is owned by someone else. There is a plan for a Costco, along with a fuel pump. We have moved the drive-thru around to facilitate traffic better, as you have requested.”

“We decided to come and talk to you more because we had landscaping approved in 2018 or 2019, but we know that the neighborhood would like us to have more landscaping and a barrier,” Bond said. “We will put that wall in when they construct Costco, so it goes in at the same time and they have continuity.”

“We know that there is a trail connection there,” Bond said. “We will make sure that there are some local plants to make sure that that area stays looking healthy.”

Steve Cross, with Costco, spoke to the Council about their store. “We are trying to take what is approved already, and are trying to put the Costco in that fits with what is acceptable in the Town,” Cross said. “We understand that the HOA of that neighborhood wants that barrier wall, which we will construct at one time.”

“We improved the westside of the property to accommodate the Costco,” Cross said. “Our buildings are set up the same way, so that we can have the parking convenient to our members. We worked hard to enhance the north property line, between us as the neighborhood. We will have a screened wall along there, and then a double row of evergreens on a berm between us and the Glenbrook neighborhood. We also will have a higher wall that will prevent people from the neighborhood seeing the trucks as they bring stock to the store.”

Members of the community spoke about this agenda item during the public hearing portion of this agenda item. One member of the HOA Board spoke to the Council and stated that Costco had been willing to work with them and she appreciated that. However, this member is concerned about noise from the multifamily housing. She asked the Council to focus on that aspect of the Planned Development.

Blake Patton, Glenbrook HOA President, spoke about Kent Drive, which is a small right of way between the neighborhood and this property. “We decided to restrict the access of Kent Drive,” Patton said. “We opted to not advocate for a gate because of the sound-proofing.”

Another resident in the Glenbrook neighborhood spoke stating that he has done a poll and that most people would like to have a gate with access from Glenbrook to the development. Three members of the community made similar requests online.

After these conversations, Mayor Bristol suggested that the Glenbrook residents speak with the HOA and decide if the majority wants access within the wall.

During the Council’s discussion, Council Members Christopher Kern and Craig Andres both said they were concerned about the mixed materials for the Costco building. “However, overall I am very excited to have this retailer in Prosper,” Council Member Craig Andres said. “I think you are providing a quality business and it will be wonderful to have you in our Town.”

Council Member Amy Bartley requested that the side that faces 1385 have a facade with more brick and stone. “I want people to see this Costco to look high quality,” Council Member Marcus Ray said. “There are nice Costcos in our area and it is important that we also offer our residents that high quality look here in Prosper.”

Cross commented on the facade of the building. “I know that some Town Councils like to have numbers, percentages of brick versus metal,” Cross said. “Instead, how Costco works is to talk about the facade and see what you really want the building to look like, rather than focusing on the percentage of the facade. I would like to talk about some elements we could include. We want to look at the building as a whole.”

“I want to be clear, this is not a Costco development, this is a change to the whole Planned Development,” Bristol said. “I thank Costco for answering so many questions for us, but this area will have other retailers, a hotel, and multifamily apartments as well.”

After discussion, this item is passed by the Town Council.

Council Member Andres suggested Town Staff address the pedestrians walking to 1418 Coffee Shop. Town staff will place signs reminding drivers to watch for pedestrians in the short term, with a possible cross walk later.

No action was required after the Council and Mayor Bristol met in Executive Session.

Prosper Town Council typically meets twice monthly, on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month. Residents are invited to attend these meetings or watch them live online. More information about the meetings is available on the Town website.

Just days after Universal Studios announced plans for its new Frisco theme park, a major development site in the same area has hit the market.

The 268-acre vacant property is at the busy northeast corner of the Dallas North Tollway and U.S. Highway 380.

Commercial property firm Cushman & Wakefield is marketing the high-profile property, considered one of the best development sites in fast-growing Prosper.

“This unparalleled land tract is perfectly positioned in an area of immense growth and attention with the Frisco Fields development and PGA headquarters directly to the south approximately one mile away,” Tom Sutherland of Cushman & Wakefield said in a statement.

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“Now with the recent announcement of Universal’s new theme park less than two miles away at Panther Creek and the Dallas North Tollway, the site will certainly be the focus of many interested developers looking to capitalize on momentum of that immediate area.”

Sutherland and Cushman & Wakefield’s Ryan Hoopes and Rick Hughes are marketing the property.

The land is owned by prominent Dallas attorney Donald Godwin, who for decades has invested in land in Collin and Grayson counties. Godwin confirms that he’s working with Cushman & Wakefield to sell the prime corner.

“I bought the first 183 acres in 1991 and the balance of approximately 85 acres in 2004,” Godwin said in an email. “This is the largest undeveloped tract on a corner between FM121 [in north Collin County] and U.S. 380.

“When I bought the 268 acres, U.S. 380 was a worn out two-lane road between Denton and McKinney and the tollway stopped at least 15 miles to the south.”

The property is more than twice the size of the land Universal Studios just acquired for its kids-themed entertainment attraction.

Architect Perkins & Will was hired by Cushman & Wakefield to draw up potential development plans for the Prosper property.

“Our master plan will respect the town’s history while helping it achieve its aspirations for growth,” said John Strasius, principal of Perkins & Will’s Dallas studio, said in a statement. “Our vision is of a unique, mixed-use district with vibrant activity and year-round events — truly an ideal place to live, work and play, and for businesses to thrive.”

The corner that’s offered for sale is in a stretch of U.S. 380 that’s seeing significant development.

It’s just west of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’ sprawling Gates of Prosper shopping center, which recently opened its latest phase.

And Wilks Development is working on plans for its 230-acre Firefly Park mixed-use project near the southwest corner of the tollway and U.S. 380 in Frisco.

Children’s Health of Dallas recently opened the first phase of its medical center near the northwest corner of the tollway and U.S. 380.

Just west of the tollway, developers plan to break ground in March on the first phase of a 175-acre North Fields mixed-use development on the south side of U.S. 380 adjacent to the PGA of America’s headquarters and the Omni PGA Frisco Resort.