McKinney council greenlights contracts for $5M performing arts center renovation, Spur 399 utility relocations
McKinney leaders approved multiple project-related contracts totaling over $6 million at an Aug. 19 meeting.
The approved contracts will facilitate various projects including the renovation of the McKinney Performing Arts Center. The contracts were approved unanimously as part of the meeting's consent agenda by McKinney City Council members.
The specifics: A contract was awarded to Fort Worth-based Byrne Construction Services for construction manager at risk preconstruction services for the planned $5 million renovation project at the McKinney Performing Arts Center. The contract totals $15,000, with an additional $5,000 for contingency costs, city documents state. The renovation project includes various interior and exterior upgrades.
Also of note: Other contracts approved by the council include a roughly $1 million contract with Garver LLC for engineering design services for the relocation of underground utilities ahead of the Spur 399 project, which will expand the existing Spur 399 and extend the roadway and connect it to US 380 by routing the lanes to the south and east of McKinney National Airport.
⛪️ Lifepoint Church relocated from Plano to McKinney. During the relocation process, the church changed its name to Church at the Creek.
What happened: The new 31-acre campus opened Aug. 24, Senior Pastor Mark Riggins said.
“The excitement was tangible as longtime attenders, new guests and families gathered to celebrate this historic milestone in the life of the church,” Riggins said in an email.
Check out updates on 4 McKinney-area road widening, reconstruction projects
🚧 Learn more about transportation projects in the McKinney area that will widen and reconstruction various roadways. Projects listed are either underway or expected to start within the next year.
1. Medical Center Drive improvements
Project: Reconstruction and widening of Medical Center Drive between Frisco Road and Spur 399 as a four-lane divided roadway. The road is currently three lanes undivided. Update: Design is complete and bids for the project have been received. McKinney City Council members will consider a contract for the project in September. Construction is expected to begin before the end of the year.
Gov. Abbott signs new congressional map; Texas Democrats vow to fight in court
Gov. Greg Abbott signed Texas’ new congressional map into law Aug. 29, declaring in a video posted to social media that “Texas is now more red in the United States Congress.”
The details: Under Texas’ current congressional boundaries, Republicans hold 25 of Texas’ 38 congressional seats. State lawmakers have said the new map will help them gain up to five more during the 2026 midterm elections.
Texas Democrats have called the mid-decade redistricting effort unconstitutional and "racially discriminatory," while Republicans asserted that the map "complies with the law" and was designed to help more Republicans get elected to the U.S. House.
Next steps: Texas’ new congressional map is set to take effect in early December, although it will be discussed in court two months earlier. After state senators approved the map Aug. 23, the League of United Latin American Citizens and a group of Texas residents filed a lawsuit asking that the map be found unconstitutional.
A panel of three federal judges will hear arguments in the case Oct. 1-10 in El Paso.
