Richardson nixes plan to put industrial buildings on historic Owens Spring Creek farm
Office and warehouse buildings were proposed for part of historic Owens farm.
Crow Holdings proposed building three warehouses with less than half the space now allowed by zoning.(Crow Holdings )
A plan to build on one of the last sections of Richardson’s historic Owens Spring Creek farm got a thumbs down from the City Council.
Developer Crow Holdings wanted to put three industrial buildings on the site at the northeast corner of Plano Road and Lookout Drive, east of U.S. Highway 75.
The almost 27 acres with its old farmhouse and barns dates to the early 1960s, when the Owens family bought the tract of farmland for its sausage business. Part of the property had a sausage manufacturing plant.
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Richardson Mayor Paul Voelker is seen in a file photo. At the last city council meeting of the year, Voelker mourned the lives lost during the COVID-19 pandemic and urged residents to support each other in the new year.(Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer)
Richardson Mayor Paul Voelker had some heavy and hopeful words for the community as 2020 comes to a close amid the COVID-19 pandemic.