Raising Cane's Plans $100 Million Campus Renovation in Plano's Legacy Area

Part of H. Ross Perot's former Electronic Data Systems campus in Plano is about to get its most ambitious renovation since the computer-services era: Raising Cane's is spending $100 million to turn the 400,000-square-foot property at 5320 Legacy Drive into a corporate hub for more than 1,000 employees, with construction set to begin in June.

The Louisiana-based chicken finger chain confirmed this week that it is moving forward with a three-story-plus-basement modernization of the building, which it purchased in August 2024 after the property had been controlled by an entity affiliated with State Farm Insurance. The updated $100 million cost estimate climbed sharply from earlier project figures and reflects an expanded scope of interior and exterior work across the multi-level building. Substantial completion is targeted for late 2027.

For Collin County's construction trades, the project lands an 18-month runway of work beginning this summer. A renovation at this price point requires sustained crews across structural, electrical, HVAC, plumbing, and finish disciplines operating in overlapping phases. Contractors servicing the Legacy Drive and Dallas North Tollway corridor should anticipate active bidding and crew deployments well before the June groundbreaking. Commuters on Legacy Drive can expect equipment, staging, and heavy contractor traffic through much of 2027.

The corporate-jobs picture stretches further. Raising Cane's first planted its Dallas Restaurant Support Office in Plano's Legacy Business Park in 2009, when the company signed a lease for 24,000 square feet and filled roughly 50 positions. The headcount has since grown to more than 650 people at the current Plano location. The company has said it expects to seat well over 1,000 employees at the new campus, with openings spanning entry-level roles through president and executive-level positions. That staffing projection anchors the 15-year economic incentive agreement the Plano City Council approved in August 2024, which ties $1.5 million in city funding to the creation of 520 new full-time jobs, allocated at roughly $2,940 per hire above a relocation baseline.

The full incentive package totaled $6.2 million, with $1.3 million connected to the relocation of at least 447 existing employees to the new address. The combined target puts the campus at approximately 1,020 full-time equivalent employees, more than doubling the workforce Raising Cane's currently operates out of its existing Plano office.

Job seekers watching for corporate postings can monitor Raising Cane's career listings under the Dallas Restaurant Support Office category, where the company has been actively recruiting as it pushes toward a national target of 1,600 restaurant locations and $10 billion in annual sales by the end of the decade. The 5320 Legacy Drive campus, positioned just inside Collin County off the Dallas North Tollway, is being built to handle the back-office load that growth requires.

At $100 million, the renovation is five times the building-improvement threshold Raising Cane's set in its original city incentive agreement — a signal of how much the chain's ambitions for Plano have expanded since it first signed that 2024 deal.