Plano approves $372K for 15th Street median trees and irrigation
Plano will spend nearly $372,000 to replant 15th Street medians with trees and irrigation, replacing canopy lost to disease, weather and poor stock.
Plano has approved a $371,999 contract to replant and irrigate the medians along 15th Street, a visible makeover for one of the city’s busy east-west corridors. The work will stretch from Custer Road to Mill Valley Drive and from Independence Parkway to Coit Road, with the contract awarded to Central North Construction LLC of Allen.
For drivers, the change is likely to show up first as a cleaner, greener stretch of roadway. For nearby businesses and neighborhoods, the city is betting the new trees will make the corridor feel more maintained and more consistent, while also replacing canopy that has thinned out over time. The project is meant to do more than decorate the median: it is designed to restore the look of a major route that residents, commuters and visitors pass every day.
City documents say the previous trees in the medians were removed because of poor health linked to past weather events, disease, insect damage, poor nursery stock or because they outgrew the space available to them. The new irrigation system is intended to help avoid a repeat of that decline by supporting replacement trees as they establish themselves along the corridor.
The work also fits into Plano’s Urban Forest Master Plan, which the city adopted in 2017 to guide tree growth and canopy health over the next 25 years. That planning framework matters on 15th Street because the medians are not simply strips of landscaping. They are part of how Plano presents a major roadway, shaping the first impression for people traveling through the city and the everyday view for those who live or work nearby.
A timeline for the project had not been determined as of June 11, so the improvements will move through the city’s capital improvement process rather than appear all at once. Even without an immediate start date, the contract marks another step in Plano’s effort to rebuild a corridor that had visibly declined and to bring it back in line with the city’s longer-term tree management goals.
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