Development at Famed Brinkmann Ranch Underway

Frisco’s Brinkmann Ranch has a long history with the City of Frisco. Nestled in the southwest corner of Coit Road and Eldorado Parkway, Brinkmann Ranch is known for breeding award-winning halter horses such as CK Kid, the 2003 AQHA World Champion. Portions of the first five episodes of the TV series “Dallas” were also filmed on the ranch in 1978, showing the Cloyce Box Ranch as the “Southfork Ranch” before the building burned. 

Now, development has finally found its way into Brinkmann Ranch as the 1,300-acre site will soon be home to housing and retail. 

Centergy Retail announced earlier this year it has broken ground on a 100,000-square-foot shopping center on the property. A Tom Thumb grocery store will occupy 58,000 square feet. An additional 32,000 square feet of shops and three pad sites will also be included in the project. Completion of the shopping center is estimated for August 2023. 

Additionally, Lexington Village is the retail component for the 600-acre Lexington master-planned community, with Landon Homes completing its first phase and starting its second phase for the community. 

At full build-out, the community will have 2,000 single-family homes ranging from $500,000 to $1.5 million. 

Apartments on The Way to Brinkmann Ranch

Trammell Crow Residential has commenced construction on 600 units of a 2,200-unit multifamily development. The plan will provide eight residential units per acre across the Lexington development. 

West Miller, president of Centergy Retail, said Baxter Brinkmann bought the land, “declared never to sell,” and then decided to sell the 600-acre position of the site. 

“It was an infill piece that was ready for development and needed development,” Miller said. 

He added the land is “one of the top pieces of real estate in DFW” from a density and income perspective, as people and development are flocking to Frisco. 

Miller added that the development agreement reached in 2002 allows eight residential units per acre and 2,200 units on 100 acres. In total, he added there will be 23 units to the acre of multi-family zoning. He said the zoning for this land “will never be approved again.”

He added that the single-family homes will make this area one of the densest in Frisco. In total, there will be 15 acres of retail. 

“We’re very fortunate we’re the ones the musical chairs landed on,” Miller said. 

Trammel Crow’s Senior Managing Director Matt Enzler said the legacy zoning allows for multifamily housing, which allows the developers to deliver a product you couldn’t do today. 

Enzler said the area will be home to a 6-acre central park, a 20,000-square-foot resort-style amenities area with “the biggest fitness centers” Trammel Crow has ever built. There are also 100 acres of trails in the property. 

He added work began on the property in January and expects to deliver the first units in the summer of 2024. 

Enzler said this land “should have been developed” as growth moved north into Frisco, but is “very fortunate” to be a part of the team developing this project.