Plano West Senior High School

The University of Plano was an American private liberal arts college located in Plano, Texas that was in operation from 1964 until 1977. The University of Plano received its charter from the State of Texas on May 8, 1964 as a private, coeducational, nondenominational institution. The school was originally called the University of Lebanon, changing its name effective September 4, 1964 to reflect the location of its campus. The university's first classes were held in space leased in downtown Dallas in the fall of 1965. The school was founded in 1964 by Robert J. Morris, an attorney and former judge known as an anti-Communist. Morris had served as chief counsel the United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security. Morris had been the president of the University of Dallas from 1960 to 1962. Building on the difficulties faced by one of his children, Morris founded the school in 1964. He remained at the school until 1977 and it closed its doors shortly thereafter. Morris decided to build a school focusing on the Doman-Delacato Method. Using $250,000 borrowed from Republic National Life of Dallas, he put a down payment on 680 acres (2.8 km2) of land in northwest Plano. With $600,000 raised from a bond issue, he persuaded the government of Malaysia to donate to the school the nation's pavilion from the 1964 New York World's Fair, with the pagoda becoming the main building of the university. The school had no endowment to speak of, other than the land where its campus was located on Custer Road. The school's finances depended on rising values for the land it had purchased, based on the assumption that the growth of the Dallas area would push residential development towards Plano and hopes that portions of the land could be rezoned for commercial use, both of which would drive up the value of the land. Property purchased by Morris for the University in 1964 for $1,800 an acre, sold in 1969 for $3,000 an acre, and could obtain as much as $6,300 an acre by 1971. 15 acres (61,000 m2) of the school's land was rezoned for a shopping center and an additional 4 acres (16,000 m2) was rezoned for small retail. Despite warnings offered as far back as 1967, the school developed a heavy reliance on land speculation to meet its expenses. With the end of the land boom in 1975, the school was unable to use land sales to fund its activities. The school ran short of funds in 1976, and despite ownership of 698 acres (2.82 km2) and twenty buildings, was forced to close in July 1976. Records from the former University are not complete and many are not available as they were privately held by Dr. Robert Morris for some time. The chain of custody is unclear and many graduates have been unable to recover records. An alumni site was available at Universityofplano.org. Though still registered as of June 2017, the site only has a parking redirect link from GoDaddy.com.

The Shops at Willow Bend, sometimes referred to as Willow Bend Mall, is a shopping mall located in Plano, Texas, with over 125 stores and three anchor stores. The mall is located at the intersection of West Park Boulevard (Farm to Market Road 544) and Dallas North Tollway in West Plano.

Shepton is an area within Plano, Texas, United States that used to be a distinct community. Shepton was founded about 1890, when Joseph W. Shepard opened a general store ten miles southwest of McKinney, with the town deriving its name from Shepard's. From 1894 to 1903, Shepton had a post office, but most residents migrated over the years to nearby Plano, also in southwestern Collin County, with the growing Plano absorbing the area of the former community by the 1980s. Shepton High School is named after the town of Shepton.

Shepton High School is a secondary school in Plano, Texas (USA), serving grades nine and ten. It is part of the Plano Independent School District. In Plano ISD, high school freshmen and sophomores attend one of six high schools. Juniors and seniors attend "senior high schools." Renner and Frankford middle schools feed into Shepton. Shepton High School feeds into Plano West Senior High School along with Jasper High School. Shepton High School maintains a population of over 1,500 students. Kathy King was the principal for eight years ending with the 2005-2006 school year. Burt Smith held the role from 2006–12, during which he won the Texas Association of School Administrators "Administrator of the Year" award for the region.

Northwest Plano Park & Ride is a new bus-only station located on Communications Parkway in Plano, Texas (U.S.A.). Owned and operated by Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), this new Park & Ride station brings improved bus service to the Legacy area. It is one of the few DART transit centers outside the Dallas County area. The new facility will be accessible from downtown Dallas by express bus service during rush hours and the extension of a local route during the midday Monday through Friday. Additional routes will serve local shopping and employment destinations in the Legacy and Granite Park areas, and connections will be available to both Parker Road Station and Jack Hatchell Transit Center. DART's new paid parking program (named "Fair Share"), will also be in operation.

Yorktown Education is a non-profit private school for students ages 5 – 18 years in Plano, Texas.

Prestonwood Christian Academy (PCA) is a private Christian School that serves more than 1,600 students enrolled at three campuses: PCA Plano in Plano (Pre-Kindergarten 3 through 12th grade), PCA North in Prosper (Pre-Kindergarten 3 through 10th grade as of Fall 2020; PCA North will continue to add a new grade with the Class of 2023 planned as the first high school graduating class) and Virtual Academy. It is affiliated with Prestonwood Baptist Church and is accredited by the Association of Christian Schools International. In addition to a spiritual development plan, the school follows a liberal arts academic program. PCA is both the name of the main campuses and the overall school system which it operates. In addition to PCA Plano, PCA North, and PCAplus, the system also includes St. Timothy Christian Academy, a K-12 school for students with learning challenges (St. Timothy is located at the Plano campus), and The King's Academy (TKA), a private school which began operations in Fall 2019 in the Bonton area of South Dallas with K4-1st grade. TKA intends to open a new grade every year thereafter.

Archgate Park is located in the city of Plano, Texas. The park is adjacent to Jasper High School in Plano. The park is situated in middle-class neighbourhood and is very popular with kids, walkers, joggers and bicyclists. It has multiple playgrounds with ample car parking, drinking fountain, restrooms, hike/bike trail, shade pavilion and a small pond. There is a basketball court and kids play area as well. The park is well maintained and is very safe and secure. Bluebonnet recreational trail passes through this park.

Arbor Hills Nature Preserve is a 200-acre park in Plano, Texas. It has several amenities including 3 miles of paved hiking trail, 3 miles of unpaved hiking trail, a 2.8 mile off-road bike trail, restrooms, a covered pavilion, and a playground. The pavilion can be reserved for special events. An observation tower provides a bird's eye view of the park. There are three regions in the park: Blackland Prairie, Riparian Forest, and Upland Forest. A pond in the preserve is named after Vasil Levski. Birds that live in the park include killdeer, owls, woodpeckers, egrets, herons, scissor-tailed flycatcher, and turkey vulture. Many other wildlife such as deer, coyotes, snakes, bobcats, turtles, fish, and rabbits also live in the park.

Legacy West is a business and cultural district, a lifestyle center in Plano, Texas, bordered on the south by the curving Legacy Drive and Headquarters Drive, on the north by the Sam Rayburn Tollway, on the east by the Dallas North Tollway, and on the west by the exit to Headquarters Drive from Sam Rayburn Tollway. It includes 415,000 square feet of retail, restaurant and office space, a 55,000 square-foot food hall, over 1,300 residential units and a 303-room Renaissance Hotel.

Prestonwood Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist multi-site megachurch, with locations in Plano, Texas (the Plano Campus) and Prosper, Texas (the North Campus). It is one of the largest churches in America, with a membership of over 45,000 and a weekly attendance of around 17,000. The Plano campus covers an area of 140 acres (0.219 sq mi; 0.567 km2), and includes a 7,000-seat worship center, a school offering Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12 (including a football stadium, a baseball field, and a fieldhouse for basketball and volleyball), a fitness center with outdoor sports fields, a café, a library, and a bookstore. In 2006, the church expanded to include a second campus of nearly 128 acres (0.200 sq mi; 0.518 km2) in Prosper. The North Campus also has a school (K-10 as of fall 2020 with plans to expand one grade each year, so that the Class of 2023 will be North's first graduating class).

Children's Medical Center Plano is a children's hospital located in Plano, Texas, USA. It provides pediatric healthcare for children from birth to age 21. As a branch of the Children's Health system, it offers care to families across north Texas and beyond in more than 25 specialties. The medical staff includes specialists from UT Southwestern. The center recorded more than 140,000 patient encounters in 2014. The center, which is attached to the main hospital, offers the largest suburban group of pediatric specialists in the US.The Children's Health System also includes Children's Medical Center Dallas, as well as multiple specialty centers, primary and urgent care offices located throughout north Texas.