A new 280-foot antenna sculpture is planned for the AT&T headquarters coming to Plano.

Plano’s Planning and Zoning commission unanimously approved setbacks for the sculpture and new property boundaries for the headquarters at a meeting May 4.

The details: The new sculpture will be located on the southeast corner of Parkwood Boulevard and Legacy Drive with the possibility of a stealth commercial antenna at any height within the structure, per city documents.

The Plano Art Association Gallery at The Shops at Willow Bend is closing at the end of August.

The details: The gallery is closing as redevelopment plans move forward, according to a gallery social media post.

A hospital in Denton is getting major renovations and a retail space in Plano will be converted into a Goodwill Store and Donation Center, according to state construction permits.

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Retail buildings in Prosper
Two new retail buildings are set to start construction in Prosper in early July. The project is listed as The Shops at Prosper Frontier, and the two buildings will total 32,000 square feet of retail space, according to documents filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.

• Location: Southeast corner of Frontier Parkway and Preston Road, Prosper
• Estimated timeline: July 1-Dec. 31
• Estimated cost: $5.4 million

More than 53,000 students will be invited to join Texas’ education savings account program this week, the state comptroller’s office said May 4.

The details: Families will be notified by email between May 4-6 if they were awarded funds in the second round of the Texas Education Freedom Accounts program, per a news release from the comptroller’s office.

To date, nearly 96,000 students have been selected to participate, with these students set to receive about $820 million of the $1 billion state lawmakers allocated for the program, an agency spokesperson said. Of the 53,000 second-round awardees, over 51,000 are from low-income families. The other 2,000 students accepted this week were found to qualify for disability-related funding, the agency said.

The background: Families accepted to the TEFA program will receive state funds to send their children to private schools or homeschool them for the 2026-27 school year.

Proponents of the new program have said it will expand educational opportunities, while critics have expressed concerns that the program will unfairly benefit students already enrolled in private schools.