man
if a street were a clown, this would be it
every chain restaurant - furniture store - Baby's R Us in the world
right there
not 1 original store
made me puke when we drove thru there Saturday night

no auto part stores though

They ran off the 'massage parlors' years ago. They also changed the High School mascot and painted the water tower.

They call it progress.

That is by the mall and 121

Come up Preston near El Dorado it gets real there, between main and Eldorado we have a 5000 acres Brinkman Ranch.

They just busted a massage parlor in the Frisco Sqaure where city hall is, that was last year.

Should of PM'd I would of met up and had a cold beer

I grew up in Prosper just north of there. I remember when all there was on 289 was an Albertsons, Brookshires, The Royal, and a few small shops here and there. Absolutely nothing but grassy fields south of Albertsons (where 289/121 is now). I think there was only 1 or 2 stop lights, and they didn't really even need those except for when school was getting out. Frisco did a really good job of expanding that road in advance of the population growth. I haven't seen another city that was so proactive about it. When they expanded 289 (nobody called it Preston back then) to 3 lanes each way, we were all confused about why they thought there was gonna be enough people around to drive on a 6-lane road.

Who would want to have clean legit businesses in their town? The nerve of Frisco to do something so terrible!! I mean it should be like Arlington where you have tons of choices in wheel rental places, vape stores and pawn shops.

Used to take 289 from Richardson to Texoma in the 80s (this was when they were doing all the 75 construction in Plano). It was nothing but fields once you got north of Parker

yep
we were coming home from Texoma & wanted a change of pace
i was shocked at that stretch
who would allow an area like that

Ok
C U when i detour around Preston

At what age did you begin ranting on all sorts of topics?

I avoid it at all cost

It's unbelievable, isn't it?

When I first drove through that area I thought, "Holy [censored], isn't there an ordinance against something like this? It looks terrible."

It's overbuilt suburbia at its worst.

exactly
i cannot get over it
absolutely hideous

simple observations
i soak in everything i see
you ever seen this area?