St. Patricks Day

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• Happy St. Patrick’s Day from Plano TX

  May you have all the Happiness and Luck that life can hold, and the end of all the rainbows may you find a pot of Gold! Here is some facts about St. Patricks Day…

  Erin go Bragh (air-inn-guh-braw) is a common St. Patrick’s Day phrase, often translated as “Ireland Forever.” The term brách in Gaelic (bragh in English) is equivalent to “eternity” or “end of time.”

  Massachusetts has the country’s highest concentration of Irish descendants at 24%. This compares with a rate of 12% for the entire U.S. According to the latest data, 36.9 million U.S. residents claim Irish ancestry.

  The idea behind wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day refers to the tradition of pinning a shamrock on one’s clothing. It was a gesture of rebellion during the 19th century, but “the wearing of the green” also symbolizes the birth of spring.Hope St. Patricks Day bring the best of luck , health and happines to all of us…Wishing you the best…

• Traffic in Collin County, Plano, Frisco, McKinney

  Collin county residents will appreciate the resolution of the traffic problem by having new intersections by the North Texas tollway Authority. Dallas business journal mentioned the latest news on the road constructions in Dallas Collin County area in Plano, McKinney and Frisco.

  Dallas business journal announced that The North Texas Tollway Authority is moving forward on two projects to improve traffic conditions in Collin County by Matt Jones.

  Collin County’s traffic would improve effectively after the North Texas Tollway projects in Frisco and Plano, the authority plans to start placing 300-foot steel beams to build the new Sam Rayburn Tollway-Dallas North Tollway section.

  Authority spokesman Michael Rey said the budget for the five-level interchange is $80 million. The project began in February 2010 and is scheduled for ending in January 2012.

  The North Texas Tollway Authority has opened a new direct-connecting ramp at the Sam Rayburn Tollway and U.S. Highway 75 intersection in McKinney area. The new ramp directly connects southwest-bound tollway lanes to southbound U.S. 75 highway main lanes.

  Rey said the new ramp makes up $14 million of the interchange project’s total cost of $220 million. The project began in December 2008 and the authority hopes to open the final direct connector ramp this month.

  Collin county residents are excited to see the completion of other intersections in the area like 121 highways to Dallas North Tollway.

• Plano ISD News

  Exciting news for Plano students of Memorial Elementary School and Weatherford Elementary School which Plano Independent School District, Plano ISD has hired Cadence McShane Construction Co. to build the new single story, 77,000 sqf Memorial Elementary School at 2600 Avenue R Plano according to REBusinessOnline.

  Weatherford Elementary School’s mission is inspiring all students to achieve their personal best.

  The construction team will also renovate Weatherford Elementary School at 2941 Mollimar Dr. Plano by improving the current 64,969 sf of existing space and planning to add 3,394 sf to existing school area.

  PBK is providing architectural services for the Memorial project while Perkins + Will has been named project architect for the Weatherford development.

  Weatherford Elementary School and Memorial Elementary School are scheduled to be ready for fall 2012 completion dates for Plano students.

  Weatherford Elementary School address is 2941 Mollimar Drive, Plano, TX 75075 Weatherford Elementary school phone number is 469-752-3600

  Memorial Elementary School address is 2600 Avenue Road Plano, TX 75074 and Memorial Elementary school phone number is 469-752-2500

  Memorial elementary school feeder schools are Bowman Middle School, Williams High School and Plano East Senior High School.

• Foreclosure Homes in Plano

  Plano shows its strong economy and affordable homes on the foreclosure homes as well as shadow properties with 6.7 months of lowest shadow property inventory. Plano has many awards on being one of the the safest city, infulence city and the best city to live in. All these awards increase the demand for Plano homes and the area easily.

  CoreLogic, Dallas Morning News, Real Estate Center recently mentioned that Texas’ five major metros have some of the lowest ‘shadow’ inventories of unsold homes in the United States. Shadow inventory homes are properties that have been foreclosed on or are in the process of foreclosure but are not currently listed for sale, writes Dallas Morning News real estate writer Steve Brown.

  San Antonio Business Journal mentioned that A third of U.S. cities with populations greater than one million are right here in Texas. Dallas follows with a population of 1.3 million to Houston has the fourth highest population with 2.3 million and San Antonio was not too far behind at number seven with 1.4 million according to Business First.

  Business First produces weekly population estimates for states, metropolitan areas, micropolitan areas, counties, towns, cities and villages. The company uses a specialized calibrated computer formula to generate the projected populations. Their system pulls data from a decade of U.S. Census Bureau data to extrapolate growth trends.

  With a total of 82 cities on the 1,000 largest-cities list, Texas ranks second only to California in number of cities listedaccording to

  A recent study by CoreLogic Inc. shows Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos has the lowest in the nation at 4.2 months. San Antonio-New Braunfels is next at 4.7, followed by Fort Worth-Arlington at 6.3. Dallas -  Irving – Plano homes have the fifth lowest inventory at 6.7 months, while Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown is seventh with 7.3 months.

  Texas’ average shadow home inventory is 5.5 months. The average inventory among the 50 largest U.S. cities included in CoreLogic’s study is about 16 months.

  Plano residents are expecting that Plano will continue to get a lot of awards in 2011 just like recent years.

• Plano is the best city to live

  Women’s Health Magazine has recently chose Plano number one city to live in for women. Magazine evaluated 100 US cities health fitness based and quality of life criteria in 41 different categories like healthy eating, working out habits, cancer rate as well as cost of living.

  Plano earned this title partly because of women to men ratio with 139 single men for 4 every 100 available women. Plano offers exciting nightlife settings, live event in addition to recreational places, parks and jogging trails that everyone can enjoy. This is just another award that emphasis Plano’s diversity. The survey also ranked the city of Plano 3^rd healthiest Place to live for men in US cities following Madison, Wisconsin and Fargo, North Dakota.

  The city of Plano has recently ranked as the safest city in United States with a population over 250,000 according to Forbes magazine.

  In their ‘America’s Safest Cities’ article, Forbes Magazine ranked each city on the number of violent crimes per 100,000 residents in 2009 as reported by FBI based on the city’s rate for six basic crime categories like murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft. Each crime category is considered separately and weighted based on its seriousness.

  The city of Plano combines other awards in addition to being The Safest City, the most fluent city and other government accolades. It is no wonder that Plano is great city to live, work and play.

  Plano offers beautiful recreational trails, stunning parks and affordable Plano recreation centers to their residents as well as affordable high quality life style.