ANDREW to stay in Richardson, expand headquarters on Telecom Parkway

ANDREW chose to stay in Richardson, shifting its headquarters from 2601 Telecom Parkway to a nearby 2920 Telecom Parkway site and locking in a minimum 10-year lease for about 42,000 square feet of office, engineering and lab space. The move keeps the wireless network infrastructure company in the Telecom Corridor while signaling that the company wants to deepen its roots rather than restart somewhere else.

The company plans to spend more than $2 million on tenant improvements, furniture, fixtures and equipment for the upgraded headquarters. Richardson responded with a $150,000 business retention grant tied to the lease, capital investment and workforce commitments, a public bet that the relocation will help keep the company’s core operations and talent base in the city.

City officials said the move reflects a long relationship between ANDREW and Richardson. Don Magner said, “They’ve had a decades-long history here in Richardson,” underscoring the city’s view that the project is more than a simple office shuffle. The new site is expected to let ANDREW activate immediately while leaving room to expand research and development and testing work over time.

That matters in a corridor built on technology jobs and office occupancy. Richardson says it is the second-largest employment center in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, with more than 1,000 employers and about half operating in tech. The city also says it remains the nation’s largest hub of telecommunications companies. The Telecom Corridor spans more than 25 million square feet of office space and more than 130,000 jobs, according to the International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation, making every retained headquarters a meaningful indicator of demand.

The relocation also fits Richardson’s broader economic pitch. The city and the Richardson Chamber of Commerce created the Richardson Economic Development Partnership in 1984, and local officials continue to lean on the area’s skilled workforce, transportation access, and proximity to The University of Texas at Dallas and DART. Keeping ANDREW on Telecom Parkway reinforces those advantages in a corridor that still depends heavily on advanced manufacturing, engineering and corporate office employment.

ANDREW said it has more than 85 years of history and was founded in 1937 by Dr. Victor J. Andrew in Chicago. The company now operates as an Amphenol company after Amphenol completed its acquisition of CommScope’s Outdoor Wireless Networks and Distributed Antenna Systems businesses on Feb. 3, 2025, following a $2.1 billion cash deal announced the previous summer. That corporate backdrop helps explain why Richardson’s local reinvestment carries weight: for Telecom Parkway, keeping an established employer in place is a stronger signal than a headline-grabbing departure ever would be.