McKinney Is Tearing Up Its Roads on Purpose. Here's Why It Matters
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I don’t know if you’re like me and drive on Eldorado Parkway regularly. The lane closures are annoying. The detours are annoying. Getting stuck behind a slow-moving truck at 8am when you're already running late is really annoying. But you know why I’m grateful for all this? McKinney really wants to fix its roads and deliver a better commute for all its residents.
They got a lot of projects underway. Here's what's actually going on.
Those crews on Eldorado have been at it since June of 2025, pulling out old deteriorating concrete panels and replacing them piece by piece. Once that stretch is done in the next few months, they’ll move to Virginia Parkway between Stonebridge Drive and US 75. This is all part of a $10.3 million rehabilitation project running through the end of the year. But that’s not all!
US 380 from Custer to Bois D'Arc is also mid-project. New median lighting is going in, foundations are already poured, and it should be wrapped up by summer. Industrial Boulevard between SH 5 and Airport Drive is getting the same treatment for $700,000, same timeline. I’m sure they’ll do even more to make McKinney Airport into a Love Field of the northern metro area.
Those are the ones happening right now. But McKinney has 3 more lined up after that.
Bloomdale Road near SH 5 is getting realigned with a new multilane roundabout at Spur 195. Design is 30% done. Construction starts spring 2027.
Graves Street and First Street is the one I want you to really pay attention to. At $16.3 million, it's the biggest project on this list, where they’re replacing the waterlines, sewer lines, and storm drainage running underneath those streets. That is a full gut and reno!
And finally, a cluster of streets in East McKinney including Church, Davis, Henry, McKinney, and Wood are getting the same treatment. Design is done, right-of-way acquisition is in progress, construction expected late 2028.
Six projects. Around $47 million total. And most of it is going underground where we'll never see it.
That last part matters more than people realize. Underground infrastructure is often kicked down the road for decades because voters can't see it and nobody throws a ribbon-cutting for a new sewer line. We use these systems every day without thinking about them. Turn on a faucet, drive over a bridge, walk on a sidewalk… they’re holding everything up from below. Now if they could just hide those pylons underground…
Don't let the orange barrels scare you off. This level of investment in roads, lighting, water, and drainage keeps a city's quality of life high and property values stable for the long haul. The construction is temporary. The infrastructure lasts decades. Have questions about specific neighborhoods near any of these projects? Shoot me a DM!
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