And most of that growth is due north, along Preston Road. But now that Plano has built out, and Frisco is too expensive for some, another little town's caught developers' eye. Six-thirty on a weeknight, and they're still loading flatbeds at the Hope Lumberyard in Prosper, Texas.
Employees love it.
It's good for everybody who makes a living on urban sprawl. Hope Lumber is based in Oklahoma, with 31 locations in four states, but none as big as the one in Prosper. The company's biggest lumberyard sits on eleven acres. Of all the places they could've built it, they decided on Prosper, Texas, for one reason only, the projected growth. A big boom has already drawn custom homebuilders to larger, one-acre lots.