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Richardson, Texas

Richardson is in Dallas County.

Well-Known Places in Richardson

University of Texas at Dallas, Charles W. Eisemann Center for Performing Arts, Galatyn Park Urban Center.

Richardson Business Districts

• Canyon Creek
• The Reservation

About Richardson, Texas

Richardson is a Dallas suburb that turned a stretch of U.S. 75 into one of the country's densest concentrations of telecom and tech employers, earning the name Telecom Corridor. Anchored by the University of Texas at Dallas and corporate campuses like State Farm and AT&T, it also hosts DFW Chinatown and one of North Texas's most diverse populations. Spring in Richardson means the Wildflower! and Cottonwood art-and-music festivals draw tens of thousands.

History of Richardson

• The town moved to the Houston & Texas Central Railroad line and was named for Alfred S. Richardson, a railroad company secretary, with the settlement taking shape in the early 1870s.
• A 1908 interurban electric railway connected Richardson to Dallas, Denison, Waco, and Corsicana.
• The tech era began when Texas Instruments chose a Richardson-area campus in 1956 and Collins Radio built on a 400-acre site in 1957.

Landmarks and Places in Richardson

• Charles W. Eisemann Center for Performing Arts, home venue for the Richardson and Plano symphony orchestras.
• University of Texas at Dallas, whose 445-acre campus includes the state's first academic building to earn a LEED Platinum rating (2010).
• Galatyn Park urban center, a mixed-use district with a pedestrian plaza, hotel, and the Eisemann Center.

The Richardson Economy

• State Farm Insurance is the largest employer (about 8,000 workers), followed by AT&T (about 5,000).
• Other major employers include Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, the University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson ISD, RealPage, GEICO, UnitedHealthcare, Raytheon, and Fujitsu Network Communications.
• Corporate headquarters in the city include Metro by T-Mobile, Fossil Group, Lennox International, id Software, and Samsung's U.S. mobile operations.

Community Life in Richardson

• The Wildflower! Arts & Music Festival, launched in 1993, is a three-day May event with six stages and 100-plus performers.
• The Cottonwood Art Festival, running since 1969, is a nationally ranked juried fine-art fair held each May in Cottonwood Park.
• DFW Chinatown, along Greenville Avenue, is the metroplex's Chinese-American cultural hub, begun by Chinese investors in the mid-1980s and now full of Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese restaurants, bakeries, and an Asian grocery.

Local reference: en.wikipedia.org, www.tshaonline.org, en.wikipedia.org