Richardson, Texas Richardson, Texas City of Richardson Flag of Richardson, Texas Location inside Dallas County and the state of Texas Location inside Dallas County and the state of Texas Richardson is a principal town/city in Dallas and Collin counties in the U.S.
State of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the town/city had a total populace of 99,223. In 2014 the populace was estimated to be 108,617. Richardson is an well-to-do inner suburb of Dallas and home of The University of Texas at Dallas and the Telecom Corridor with a high concentration of telecommunications companies.
More than 5,000 businesses have operations inside Richardson's 28 square miles (73 km2), including many of the world's biggest telecommunications/networking companies: AT&T, Ericsson, Verizon, Cisco Systems, Samsung, ZTE, Metro - PCS, Texas Instruments, Qorvo, and Fujitsu. Richardson is also the home to the Blue - Cross-Blue - Shield of Texas command posts in the healthcare industry.
Settlers from Kentucky and Tennessee came to the Richardson region in the 1840s.
Richardson was chartered in 1873, and the town was titled after the secretary of the Houston & Texas Central Railroad, Alfred S.
In 1908, the Texas Electric Railway an electric stockyards known as the Interurban, connected Richardson to Denison, Waco, Corsicana and Fort Worth.
The schoolhouse is now the administrative office for the Richardson Independent School District.
Throughout the 1950s the town/city continued to see expansion including the opening of the Collins Radio Richardson office, Central Expressway, a police department, shopping centers and many homes.
Texas Instruments opened its offices in Dallas on the southern border of Richardson in 1956.
In the 1960s Richardson experienced additional expansion including a several new parks, facilities and the creation of the University of Texas at Dallas inside the town/city limits.
Richardson had a populace of 74,840 as stated to the 1990 census.
The town/city of Buckingham, after being completely surrounded by Richardson, was took in into the town/city in 1996.
Richardson had a populace of 91,802 as of the 2000 census.
By 2002 Richardson had four Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) light rail stations and had assembled the Eisemann Center for Performing Arts and Corporate Presentations and the adjoining Galatyn Park urban center, which has a two-acre enhance pedestrian plaza, a luxury hotel and mixed-use development.
Richardson was a "dry city" with no alcohol revenue until November 2006, when the small-town option election passed to allow the sale of beer and wine in grocery and convenience stores.
Richardson received small-town media consideration for removing its rocket slide, space age and Cold War-era playground equipment from Heights Park in July 2008.
In 2006, Richardson was ranked as the 15th best place to live in the United States by Money magazine.
This ranked Richardson the 3rd best place to live in Texas. In 2007, the Morgan Quitno 14th Annual America's Safest and Most Dangerous Cities Awards pronounced Richardson the 69th safest town/city in America.
In the same study Richardson ranked the 5th safest town/city in Texas. In 2008, Richardson was ranked as the 18th best place to live in the United States by Money magazine.
This ranked Richardson the 4th best place to live in Texas. In 2009, Business Week's annual report on the "Best Places to Raise Kids," ranked Richardson in 2nd place in Texas. Richardson was the first North Texas town/city recognized as a best workplace for commuters by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Department of Transportation in 2004.
As of 2010 the town/city has continued to be recognized every year since 2004. In 2011 the Texas Recreation and Park Society awarded Richardson with the Texas Gold Medal for excellence in the field of recreation and park management. In 2014, Richardson was called the "5th happiest mid-sized town/city in America" by nationwide real estate website and blog, Movoto.com, based on a number of metrics, such as low unemployment, low crime, and high income. Also in 2014 Richardson was titled America's 17th Best City to Live in by 24/7 Wall St., based on crime, economy, education, housing, surrounding, leisure and infrastructure. The metros/cities of Dallas, Plano and Garland, Texas constitute almost all of the Richardson border apart from the municipality's extreme northeastern "panhandle." The Lake Highlands region of northeast Dallas borders Richardson to the south, North Dallas to the southwest, Far North Dallas to the west, West Plano to the northwest, East Plano to the north, the town/city of Murphy to the northeast, Sachse to the east, and Garland to the southeast.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 28.6 square miles (74.2 km2), of which 28.6 square miles (74.0 km2) is territory and 0.08 square miles (0.2 km2), or 0.32%, is water. Approximately two-thirds of the town/city is in Dallas County, with the northern third of the town/city in Collin County.
Of the 28.6 square miles (74.2 km2) contained inside the borders of the town/city of Richardson, 18.2 square miles (47 km2) lie in Dallas County; the other 9.2 square miles (24 km2) are in Collin County.
Even with declining economies in other parts of the United States, from 2005 to 2009 Richardson had substantial increases in its economy.
The town/city has experienced a surge of mixed-use development, suburban infill and transit-oriented development, dominantly on the city's easterly side.
The former Richardson Square Mall has been redeveloped into an outside retail center.
Other retail centers have been re-developed or remodeled including Buckingham Plaza, Buckingham Square, Dal-Rich Village, Richardson Village, II Creeks, Richardson Heights and Richardson Village. This town/city has won many economic awards, including DBJ's 2006 "Best Real Estate Deal of the Year", International Economic Development Council's 2006 "Technology-Based Economic Development Award", and Texas Economic Development Council's 2007 "Texas Economic Excellence Award". At the time, Richardson was one of only four metros/cities in the state of Texas and one of 88 metros/cities in the country with an "AAA" rating from Standard & Poor's.
Richardson is the urbane statistical area's second biggest employment center with daytime populace increasing to more than 140,000.
However, Richardson's property tax base is deep and extends beyond its Telecom Corridor region with other sectors including community care, technology, and finance.
On March 1, 2014, the Richardson Fire Department will officially receive its Class 1 ISO rating.
In the overall economic downturn or the late-2000s recession, Richardson has not been affected as adversely as some other metros/cities in the country, Texas or even the North Texas region.
Of the metros/cities that maintain bond ratings, Richardson is in the top 3.1% in the state and the top 6.8% nationally. Richardson has fully recovered from the tech downturn[clarification needed] of 2001-2003.
According to the Richardson Economic Development Partnership's listing on Major Employers (last updated September 2014), the top employers in the town/city are: 3 The University of Texas at Dallas 3,500 5 Richardson Independent School District 2,500 Notwithstanding the requirements that some propel officials must live in certain Places, all seven officials of the City Council are propel by all Richardson voters.
The town/city of Richardson is a voluntary member of the North Central Texas Council of Governments association, the purpose of which is to coordinate individual and collective small-town governments and facilitate county-wide solutions, eliminate unnecessary duplication, and enable joint decisions.
According to a 2008 estimate, the median income for a family in Richardson was $90,790 and a median home price of $195,510. By 1990 10% of the Richardson populace was not born in the United States.
Esther Wu, a former editor of the Dallas Morning News, stated that Chinese immigration began in Richardson in 1975.
As of 2012 North Texas has over 60 Chinese cultural organizations and most of them are headquartered in Richardson and Plano. The Dallas Chinese Community Center (DCCC; Chinese: ; pinyin: Dalasi Huaren Huodongzhongxin) is in the D-FW Chinatown.
It includes English as a second language (ESL) classes and 20,000 books written in Traditional Chinese; the center imported some books from Taiwan. As of 2011 the Chinese restaurants catering to ethnic Chinese in DFW are mainly in Richardson and Plano. The University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson, as of 2012, has almost 1,000 Chinese students.
Richardson's Asian Indian immigrant improve has been primarily driven by the global telecommunications trade that is so prevalent in the community.
The India Association of North Texas command posts are in Richardson. Indo-Pak grocery store is positioned in an Indian-oriented strip shopping center east of Central Expressway. Of the suburbs in the DFW area, Richardson had one of the earliest Indian settlements. The University of Texas at Dallas, also referred to as UT Dallas or UTD, is a enhance research college in the University of Texas System.
Even with its name the UT Dallas chief campus, consisting of approximately 445 acres (1.80 km2), is inside the Richardson town/city limits at 800 West Campbell Road.
The ground is sited with Campbell Road on the south, Floyd Road on the east, Waterview on the west, and Synergy Park Boulevard on the north. The college owns an additional 265 acres (1.07 km2) in Richardson, adjoining to the campus, between Synergy Park Boulevard and the President George Bush Turnpike. The town/city of Richardson passed a bond election on May 8, 2010, which allocated $2.8 million in funding for a UT Dallas loop road to connect the roads around campus.
The loop road will be designed to help keep traffic contained inside the campus, clean water on the city's roads. The UTD Student Services building, instead of in 2010, is the first academic structure in Texas to be rated a LEED Platinum facility by the United States Green Building Council.
The town/city is served by the Richardson Independent School District (RISD), except for the portion of the town/city in Collin County, which is served by the Plano Independent School District (PISD).
Twenty-one RISD schools have officially been titled to the Texas Business and Education Coalition's (TBEC) Honor Roll for 2008, the second consecutive year RISD has led the state of Texas in Honor Roll Campuses.
It recognizes schools that have demonstrated three years of consistent, high performance in all subjects compared to other schools serving similar student populations.
Of the more than 8,000 Texas enhance schools less than 4% make the TBEC Honor Roll, while in RISD, 40% of eligible campuses are Honor Roll Schools for 2008. The RISD and PISD have many Blue Ribbon Schools. The Blue Ribbon Schools Program is a United States government program created to honor schools.
Zoned RISD high schools in Richardson include Richardson High School, Lloyd V.
Pearce High School. The Christa Mc - Auliffe Learning Center and the RISD alternative school, are also in Richardson. Lake Highlands High School is part of the Richardson Independent School District but is positioned in Lake Highlands, an region in Dallas just south of Richardson.
Sections of Richardson in the Plano Independent School District are served by a several schools.
Aldridge, Miller, Schell, and Stinson elementary schools are inside Richardson and serve Collin County portions of Richardson. A section of Collin County Richardson is zoned to Mendenhall Elementary School in Plano. Armstrong, Bowman, and Wilson middle schools in Plano and Murphy Middle School in Murphy serve separate sections of Collin County Richardson.
Williams High School, 9-10 schools in Plano, serve separate sections of Collin County Richardson.
Plano Senior High School and Plano East Senior High School serve separate sections of Collin County Richardson. Prior to 2007 a section was zoned to Boggess Elementary School in Murphy. Paul the Apostle School, in Richardson. Other private schools include Canyon Creek Christian Academy (K-12), North Dallas Adventist Academy (K-12), IANT Quranic Academy (K-12), The Alexander School (8-12), Dallas North Montessori School (ages 3 9), and Salam Academy (K-12).
The Richardson Public Library is positioned at 900 Civic Center Drive at the southwest corner of U.S.
The roots of the Richardson Public Library date back to 1947 when a branch of the Dallas County Library was established in a section of the Cash Dry Goods store on East Main Street in downtown Richardson.
The City Council established the library as a town/city department in 1958 and in 1959 the library moved into a newly constructed building at 310 Tyler Street.
Richardson was experiencing rapid expansion in the 1960s and 1970s, and the library facility soon became inadequate for improve needs.
Hennen's American Public Library Rating printed announcement has ranked the library second in the state of Texas every year from 2005 to 2008. Richardson's strategic locale with primary area highways provides convenient access for workers commuting into Richardson, the second biggest employment center in the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex.
The town/city has more Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) rail stations than any other Dallas region suburb.
The most walkable Richardson neighborhoods are Southwest Richardson, Town North Park II and Mark Twain. Angie Chen Button, state representative from District 112 in Dallas County Richardson, Texas: Richardson Centennial Corporation, 1973.
Richardson, Texas: University of Texas at Dallas Center for Continuing Education, c - 1984-85.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2014 (PEPANNRES): Incorporated Places in Texas".
By area, 66% of Richardson is in Dallas County, but by registered voters, about 74% of the populace is in Dallas County Texas Almanac The Dallas Morning News One of Richardson's Most Recognizable Landmarks to disappear the week of July 14 From Such Great Heights to New Lows, the Dismantling of Richardson's Historic 'Rocket Ship' Park "MONEY Magazine: Best places to live 2006: Top 100 1-25".
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MONEY Magazine: Best places to live 2008: Top 100 1-25 Business - Week: Best Place to Raise Kids Richardson TX: Green Initiative North Texas Enews Richardson Chamber of Commerce "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Richardson city, Texas".
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REDP list of Major Employers Retrieved December 2011 "City Council".
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"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
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"UT Dallas Building Awarded Highest Green Status".
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The University of Texas at Dallas.
"21 Richardson ISD Campuses Make TBEC Honor Roll For 2008 Most in Texas Again." City of Richardson.
"Blue Ribbon Schools 1982-2002 "Blue Ribbon Schools 2003-2006 "Blue Ribbon Schools 2007 "Blue Ribbon Schools 2008 Richardson Independent School District.
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"Plano Senior HS Feeder Schools." a b "Plano East Senior HS Feeder Schools." "Catholic Elementary Schools and Principals." City of Richardson.
Library History Richardson TX: Public Library City's Website, Historical "Richardson Pearce's Agoos, Fawcett propel to the Hall of Fame." John Gary in Texas Handbook Online Author Anne Rice, former Richardson resident, writes to the Richardson Echo City of Richardson official website Richardson Economic Development Partnership Historic images from the Richardson Public Library, hosted by the Portal to Texas History Richardson, Texas Municipalities and communities of Collin County, Texas, United States Municipalities and communities of Dallas County, Texas, United States
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