AT&T held a ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday morning for its new corporate headquarters on Legacy Drive, the start of building work on the 54-acre campus where the company plans to bring together its offices from across the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
The site at 5500 Legacy Drive once held the Electronic Data Systems campus, parts of which were imploded this year. CBS News Texas put the project at $1.3 billion and reported that crews installed the campus's first fiber connection as part of the ceremony.
The campus is designed for 10,000 employees. AT&T has said it aims to open at least part of it in the second half of 2028, according to CBS News Texas, which also reported that state filings show construction on some buildings starting Dec. 1 and finishing in March 2029.
AT&T announced in January that it would move its headquarters from downtown Dallas to Collin County. Site work began in April, The Dallas Morning News reported.
What is planned
Company executives laid out the design in an interview with The Dallas Morning News published Thursday. According to that report, the campus will hold 2.2 million square feet of office space in seven office buildings no taller than eight stories, along with three parking garages, a welcome center and a food hall.
Its tallest structure will be a 250-foot cell tower topped with the company logo, visible from the Dallas North Tollway.
The plans also include a daycare center, a fitness and wellness center, a four-lane bowling alley, golf simulators, pickleball courts, walking trails and an AT&T museum, the newspaper reported. Michael Ford, AT&T's head of real estate, told The Dallas Morning News that about 20% of the campus's square footage is set aside for amenities, double the share in the company's downtown Dallas offices.
