McKinney approves zoning for mixed-use redevelopment near Stonebridge Drive

A former corporate campus in west McKinney moved closer to becoming a mixed-use district after the City Council approved multifamily zoning for about 14 acres near Eldorado Parkway and Stonebridge Drive.

The vote on June 2 affects an undeveloped parcel tied to the former Globe Life headquarters campus at 3700 S. Stonebridge Drive, where the broader plan calls for 14.2 acres of multifamily housing, 33.5 acres of office space and nearly 10 acres of retail. The existing office building on the site has 300,780 square feet of net rentable space, and the project would reuse land that has already been part of McKinney’s office-growth story rather than opening new greenfield acreage on the edge of town.

McKinney’s Planning and Zoning Commission had unanimously recommended the zoning change on May 12. City staff said the request would modernize the zoning district and support a horizontal mixed-use pattern along Eldorado Parkway and Stonebridge Drive, a corridor already bordered by commercial uses to the north and northeast, office uses to the south and west, and Village on the Park, an assisted living facility, to the east.

The rezoning is to MF36, a district that allows apartment communities at up to 36 units per acre under the McKinney Unified Development Code. City staff also noted that apartments could already be developed by right under the property’s current zoning after Senate Bill 840 passed, making the action less about unlocking housing from scratch than about resetting the rules for a larger redevelopment vision. Bob Roeder of Abernathy Roeder Boyd Hullett represented the applicant, and final access details are still expected to be worked out during site plan review.

For McKinney, the stakes go beyond one parcel. The former Globe Life campus was listed for sale in October 2025 after Globe Life announced in February 2025 that it would move its headquarters within McKinney to a new 200,000-square-foot building at 7677 Henneman Way. The company said the relocation would retain more than 2,000 jobs in McKinney, while later reporting said more than 3,000 employees would transition in phases.

That shift helps explain why the Stonebridge Drive site is being reimagined instead of left as a single-user office campus. David Craig of Craig International has said the goal is to turn it into a thriving mixed-use development, and the council’s approval gives that plan a clearer path forward in a part of McKinney where the next wave of growth is increasingly being defined by how older corporate land gets reused.