North Hills Preparatory, an Uplift Education charter school is in Las Colinas. Local schools include Irving Independent School District, Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District, and The Highlands School, a private Catholic PreK through 12 school. A 40-acre (160,000В m 2) tract in Las Colinas is also home to the Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas. The complex also features a River Walk-styled canal offering gondola cruises, as well as the above-ground Las Colinas APT System. The Mustangs of Las Colinas are featured in the courtyard of the Towers at Williams Square, where another ClubCorp Property, La Cima Club, is located. Notable attractions include the Mustangs at Las Colinas sculpture and fountain and Las Colinas Flower Clock. It also contains high-rise office towers, retail centers, upscale residences, apartment complexes, and leisure facilities. It features tree-lined fairways, large greens and a number of creeks and ponds. The TPC Four Seasons Las Colinas Resort has hosted the HP Byron Nelson Championship of PGA Tour since it opened in 1986. Las Colinas also features three private country clubs, including the Las Colinas Country Club owned by ClubCorp, Hackberry Creek Country Club and four championship golf courses surrounded by gated communities. In 2008 TXU Energy moved offices into the former TM Advertising headquarters in Las Colinas. Other companies and organizations with headquarters or major offices in Las Colinas include Abbott Laboratories, Accenture, AAA-Texas, AT&T, BlackBerry, The Big 12 Conference and Conference USA Headquarters, TheBlaze, Boy Scouts of America, Citigroup, Cortland Partners, First Choice Power, Flowserve, General Motors Financial, Infor, Microsoft, NEC America, Nexstar Media Group, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, Oracle, Paycom, PLH Group, PNM Resources, Inc., Stellar, TRT Holdings, Inc., Verizon, Vizient, Inc., Westwood One, and Zale Corporation. FOX News also tapes from the FOX News Texas Studios in Las Colinas. It is also the home to The Kidd Kraddick Morning Show and ESPN Dallas. La Quinta announced it would move its headquarters from San Antonio, stating it wanted to be near Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Other companies with headquarters in Las Colinas include Mission Foods, Trend Micro and La Quinta Inns and Suites. With 25,000,000В sqВ ft (2,300,000В m 2) of office space, nearly equivalent to the Dallas CBD, Las Colinas is home to more than 2,000 companies, including the Fortune 500 global headquarters for Commercial Metals, ExxonMobil, Fluor and Kimberly-Clark.

However, another 6,500,000 square feet (604,000В m 2) of office space was built in the late 1990s boom. In 1985, the first sign of financial trouble appeared at Las Colinas after a real estate market crash. Дuring the 1980s building boom, Las Colinas became a popular location for relocating companies and office developers, attracting many corporations, including the global headquarters of four Fortune 500 companies and offices of more than 30 others, such as ExxonMobil, GTE Telephone (now Verizon), Kimberly-Clark and Associates Corp. Urban planners were consulted to lay out the entire town, an undertaking that predated later projects in Plano, Allen, and other Dallas suburbs. It was one of the first planned communities in the United States and was once the largest mixed-use development in the South, with a land area of more than 12,000 acres (49В km 2). Originally called El Ranchito de Las Colinas ('the Little Ranch of the Hills'), Las Colinas was developed in 1972 by cattle ranching millionaire Ben H.

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